AC World Series in Full Swing

The America’s Cup World Series got going in Cascais, Portugal, over the weekend with eight teams and nine boats. In what has been hyped as a watershed week for the polarizing new format for the Cup, the venue has unfortunately largely produced "it’s never like this here" conditions. Rather than the Bay-like conditions it normally gets, the first day of racing got light air in the 3- to 5-knot range, and even rain! Thankfully Day 2 produced the goods and Emirates Team New Zealand carried the weekend with a win in both the "Preliminaries" fleet racing and the 500 meter time trial, over which they averaged 23 knots.

ETNZ picked up right where they left off in today’s match racing-seeding series which was once again postponed due to light air. After three races, they lead Oracle Racing’s Jimmy Spithill in second, with Team Korea’s Chris Draper in third and Loïck Peyron’s Energy Team in fourth. There have been video highlights at the end of each day, and the racing is live-streamed at www.americascup.com every day starting at 8 a.m.