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Everything you need to know about the 37th America’s Cup
Follow all the latest insight, analysis and reports from the 37th America’s Cup as teams fight it out to win the oldest International trophy in sport.
Which teams are in the 37th America’s Cup?
In 2021 four teams raced in fully foiling AC75 monohulls which were conceived specifically for the event by then Defender, Emirates Team New Zealand and Challenger of Record, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli.
These same four teams have returned for the 2024 America’s Cup and are by joined by two additional teams, bringing the total number of entries up to 6.
Emirates Team New Zealand – America’s Cup Defender
As the current holder of the America’s Cup, Emirates Team New Zealand will be racing again in the 37th America’s Cup. As the Defender, the Kiwis are guaranteed a spot in the America’s Cup regatta itself.
Any other challengers will need to race each other in the Louis Vuitton Cup to win the right to be the single challenger in the America’s Cup regatta itself.
Emirates Team New Zealand represent the Royal Auckland Yacht Club in America’s Cup racing.
tight racing between the British and the French. Photo: Ricardo Pinto / America’s Cup
INEOS Britannia – America’s Cup Challenger of Record
The Challenger of Record is the name given to the first yacht club to challenge the holder of the America’s Cup once it has been won.
When Emirates Team New Zealand successfully completed their defence of the America’s Cup in 2021, the Royal Yacht Squadron immediately issued a challenge on behalf of Ben Ainslie’s INEOS Team UK (now called INEOS Britannia), so they are Challenger of Record for the 37th America’s Cup .
INEOS Britannia and Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 team has strengthened an exhausting relationship, with the British challenger standing to benefit from the technical and engineering experience of the multiple World Champion F1 team.
Photo: Job Vermeulen/America’s Cup
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli has a very long America’s Cup history having first competed in 2000 and has taken part in every Cup since (with the exception of the unique 2010 Deed of Gift match).
For the 36th America’s Cup Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli were the challenger of record. They also won the challenger selection series so it was this Italian team who took on Emirates Team New Zealand for the America’s Cup itself.
The team has returned for the 37th America’s Cup though this time they are not the official challenger of record.
Photo: Ian Roman / America’s Cup
American Magic
Eliminated in the louis vuitton cup semi-final.
In 2021 the New York Yacht Clubs’ American Magic was also competing, though their event was ultimately ruined by a capsize in the early part of the regatta . They did get the boat rebuilt but it never got back up to speed and they made an early exit.
The 2021 campaign marked the return of the New York Yacht Club to the America’s Cup. The NYYC held the America’s Cup from its inception in 1851 right the way through to 1983, when they were defeated by the Royal Perth Yacht Club’s Australia II .
American Magic are, once again, representing the New York Yacht Club in the 2024 America’s Cup
The Alinghi Red Bull Racing AC75 was first to launch and has one of the most radical hull shapes. Photo: Olaf Pignataro/Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Alinghi Red Bull Racing
Another team making a return to the America’s Cup scene after a long break will be Ernesto Bertarelli’s Alinghi team. The Swiss team won the America’s Cup in 2003 and then completed a successful defence in 2007.
However, a serious falling out over the potential rules for the next America’s Cup saw Alinghi taken to court by Larry Ellison and his BMW Oracle team, the 2010 America’s Cup was held between Alinghi and BMW Oracle Racing in a Deed of Gift match that saw the teams fight it out in huge multihulls.
BMW Oracle won the contest and Alinghi stepped away from America’s Cup racing.
Alinghi’s return was a welcome one and their Cup history alongside their partnership with Red Bull Racing should have seen them a solid challenge from the off. Unfortunately the complexity of the AC75s is clear and this team had too much to do to catch up to those involved in the 2021 Cup.
Alinghi was eliminated from the competition by INEOS Britannia in the Louis Vuitton Cup Semi-Final.
Orient Express Racing Team
Eliminated louis vuitton cup round robin series.
The French entry to the 2024 America’s Cup was long rumoured but it was not until quite late in the day that they officially announced their intention to challenge.
It was in early 2023 that the official announcement came of a French AC entry, backed by Accor Group and its brands Orient Express and ALL-ACCOR Live Limitless.
As a fairly late challenge they will had a lot to do to be competitive, but they struck a great – and controversial – deal with Team New Zealand to buy their boat design, so were able to skip a few steps on the learning curve.
Ultimately the French team did better than many expected, but their comparative lack of AC75 experience saw them knocked out in the first found of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
What boats are in the 37th America’s Cup
The class of boat to be used in the 2024 America’s Cup is once again the AC75 . These boats were first brought in ahead of the 36th America’s Cup so this will be their second outing.
The foiling monohulls are slightly different in 2024, with rules being tweaked partly aimed at improving light wind performance and reducing crew numbers from 11 to 8.
Teams are only be allowed to build one AC75 and nationality rules are strict this time around requiring 100% of the race crew for each competitor to either be a passport holder of the country of the team’s yacht club or to have been physically present in that country for 18 months of the previous three years prior to 17th March 2021.
Emirates Team New Zealand saw success in 2017 in Bermuda with their Cyclors . Having been banned in 2021, these have made a return for the 37th America’s Cup.
Barcelona, the venue for the 37th America’s Cup
Where is the 37th America’s Cup held?
Barcelona, Spain was selected in 2022 as the venue for the 37th America’s Cup , marking the first time a New Zealand team has chosen to defend a Cup win overseas.
The home city of Emirates Team New Zealand and the venue for the 36th America’s Cup, Auckland, had an exclusive period in which to tender for the regatta immediately after the Kiwis’ successful defence in 2021, but the sums on offer were not enough, and Emirates Team New Zealand CEO Grant Dalton cast the net wider internationally after rejecting a NZ$99 million (£50 million) offer from the New Zealand government.
A number venues were mooted including: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Cork, Ireland; Malaga, Spain, but Barcelona eventually won out.
When is the 37th America’s Cup?
The America’s Cup will be held in 2024 in Barcelona. Racing in the 37th America’s Cup Match itself, which is a best of 13 (first to seven) format will start on Saturday 12th October 2024 and could run all the way to the 27th October should all the races be needed to pick a winner.
The America’s Cup will be proceeded by the challenger selection series, which will see which of the five challengers gets the honour to race New Zealand for the Cup itself.
Racing for the Challenger Selection Series – officially the Louis Vuitton Cup, will take place between the 29 August 2024 and 7 October 2024.
Match Racing
Though the America’s Cup was first raced for in 1851 ( and won by the schooner America from which the trophy gets its name), this race was between a fleet of boats. A challenge by the British in the 1870s was also conducted as a fleet race.
By the 1880s, following a protest from the British, the America’s Cup was decided in a head-to-head match race where two boats sail against each other.
Match racing is a particular skill and encourages aggressive manoeuvres using the rules to put your opponent at a disadvantage. This cut-and-thrust racing, where the only objective is to beat your opponent, has long been at the heart of America’s Cup racing and produces a thrilling spectacle.
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American Magic endures 'brutal' elimination from America's Cup by Italy's Luna Rossa
BARCELONA, Spain — American Magic's comeback fell short and it bid farewell to the 37th America's Cup after Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli secured a decisive fifth win in their playoff series on Thursday.
The same Italian team had eliminated the representative of the New York Yacht Club in the same challengers' semifinal three years prior in Auckland by a 4-0 score. This time, after trailing 4-0, the boat skippered by Tom Slingsby had rallied with three straight wins before finally succumbing 5-3.
“It’s brutal. You know, losing just absolutely sucks,” Terry Hutchinson, head of American Magic sailing operations, told The Associated Press. “We had higher expectations for ourselves.”
American boats have won the America’s Cup a record 30 times, but their last title came in 2013.
The Americans faced adversity this time around when experienced helmsman Paul Goodison was unable to race against Luna Rossa after he fell on the boat and cracked some ribs. Lucas Calabrese took his place and performed admirably, according to Slingsby, despite his limited hours in the super foiling yacht.
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Hutchinson applauded the effort of his team but said that another exit against an admittedly “well-polished” Luna Rossa was not the plan. He also rued some what-could-have-beens in the series, which included one loss by just two seconds.
“The fact that Tommy and Lucas were able to get the boat to a spot where we were knocking on the door, basically in every race except for one. I mean, in the first day of the regatta, we led both those races ... you’re just kicking yourself," he said.
American Magic needed to win the two races scheduled on Thursday to advance, but Luna Rossa wrapped it up after a flawless and fast regatta that it finished a minute ahead.
“We are super happy. It has been a fantastic journey in this semifinal and we are ready for more,” Luna Rossa port helmsman Francesco Bruni said.
INEOS Britannia awaits the Italians in the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger’s final that will begin on Sept. 26. That will be a rematch of the 2021 challenger's final that Luna Rossa also won. The winner of the first-to-seven-wins series will face defending champion Team Emirates New Zealand in the America’s Cup final next month.
Luna Rossa had been cruising in the series until the Americans got back in it. Luna Rossa aided that American fightback when some rigging broke free on the Italian yacht on Wednesday and left it disabled. When the rigging suddenly came loose a loud pop was heard and the boat crashed off its foils into the waves.
But the Luna Rossa shore crew worked through the night to fix the mainsail and its boat performed perfectly.
Luna Rossa took the lead in the decider when it cut behind American Magic on the first of six legs, picked up speed, and never looked back. The Americans were 700 meters behind when the winner crossed the finish line.
“I would just like to mention American Magic for putting up a hell of a fight. They are a champion team and showed it,” Luna Rossa’s starboard helmsman Jimmy Spithill said. “This victory has to go to the shore team. They worked all night and this morning looked like a bunch of zombies.”
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Italy's Luna Rossa eliminates American Magic from the America's Cup
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli has eliminated NYYC American Magic and advanced to the challenger’s final of the America’s Cup
BARCELONA, Spain -- Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli eliminated NYYC American Magic on Thursday and advanced to the challenger’s final of the America’s Cup .
Luna Rossa won the series 5-3 after a flawless and fast regatta where the Italian yacht finished a minute ahead of its American rival.
“We are super happy. It has been a fantastic journey in this semifinal and we are ready for more,” port helmsman Francesco Bruni said.
Luna Rossa had led the series 4-0 before American Magic made it interesting by scoring three consecutive victories.
INEOS Britannia awaits the Italian yacht in the Louis Vuitton Cup challenger’s final that will begin on Sept. 26. That will be a rematch of the 2021 matchup that Luna Rossa won.
The winner of the series faces defending champion Team Emirates New Zealand in the America’s Cup final next month.
Luna Rossa sealed the win over the Americans a day after it gifted them their third victory, when some rigging broke free on the Italian yacht and left it disabled in the Mediterranean.
But the shore crew fixed the malfunction on the mainsail overnight.
Luna Rossa took the lead in the decider when it cut behind its rival on the first of six legs and never looked back. The Americans were 700 meters behind when the winner crossed the finish line.
“I would just like to mention American Magic for putting up a hell of a fight. They are a champion team and showed it,” Luna Rossa's starboard helmsman Jimmy Spithill said. “This victory has to go to the shore team. They worked all night and this morning looked like a bunch of zombies.”
Luna Rossa swept the Americans 4-0 at the same stage in the 2021 America’s Cup held in Auckland, New Zealand.
The Americans faced adversity this time around when experienced helmsman Paul Goodison was unable to race in the series after he fell on the boat and cracked some ribs. Lucas Calabrese took his place and performed admirably, according to co-helm Tom Slingsby, despite his limited hours in the super foiling yacht.
American Magic needed to win the two races scheduled on Thursday to advance.
“Huge congratulations to Luna Rossa, the better team won,” Slingsby said. “We've got to hold our heads high, as much as I am stewing on some bad decisions in that race. But given where we were last week, we had a huge improvement in that short time.”
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America’s Cup: American Magic eliminated as Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli join Ineos Britannia in final
And then there were two.
Either Italy’s Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli or Great Britain’s Ineos Britannia will challenge Team New Zealand for the America’s Cup next month, with the two the last standing challengers after the semifinals of the Louis Vuitton Cup.
Luna Rossa secured their spot alongside the British in the best-of-13 final series this morning, beating American Magic in the first of two possible races of the day to secure a 5-3 series win.
“I’m super happy, almost more than when we won the Prada Cup in Auckland,” Luna Rossa port helmsman Francesco Bruni said.
“It’s been a fantastic journey, these super semifinals, and we are ready for more fight. We had some pressure, for sure, and it was great to reply strong to that pressure.”
It was a race that answered some questions hovering over the Italians. The Cup challenger from the 36th America’s Cup in Auckland made a strong start to the semifinals in Barcelona to go up 4-0 over American Magic. While those first four races were well contested, Luna Rossa showed they were able to find ways to win.
But the Americans fought back to bring the tie to 4-3, the last of those races being won as Luna Rossa suffered structural damage when their traveller broke and they could not continue.
After a big 24 hours from the shore team, their AC75 was back on the water and showed no signs of lingering issues from the damage.
“The last 24 hours have been the toughest for the shore team, but we have a super strong team. They deserve this win.
“We all deserve this win. It was not an easy night in the shed and psychologically it was very hard for the whole team so we’re very proud.”
Both teams got off to strong starts in a day of light, but consistent, breeze, and it was clear Luna Rossa favoured the shoreside of the course as they tacked off that way almost immediately. That side of the course has been the more reliable for wind.
After some exciting match racing toward the first gate, Luna Rossa held a slim lead which they extended through an impressive downwind leg.
American Magic answered with a strong upwind on leg three to trim about 200m off the lead, but the real turning point came on the second downwind leg where a slight touchdown saw the Americans lose some pace and allow Luna Rossa to push further forward.
The Italians sailed as perfect a race as they would have hoped for, ultimately claiming a comfortable win.
Ineos Britannia confirmed their place in the final the day before, beating Swiss crew Alinghi Red Bull Racing 5-2 in their semifinal.
It will be a repeat of the Challenger Series final from Auckland in 2021 – then called the Prada Cup – in which Luna Rossa beat their British counterparts 7-1.
The Louis Vuitton Cup final is scheduled to get under way at midnight on Friday, September 27 (NZ time), giving the teams a week to find more pace in their boats.
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli (Italy) beat American Magic (United States) by 1m 01s to win their semifinal series 5-3 and eliminate the Americans from the regatta.
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America’s Cup: The rising cost of sailing’s ultimate prize
by Patrick Kidd
The America’s Cup is a peculiarly ugly trophy — and it lacks a bottom, so you can’t even drink from it — yet some of the richest men in history have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an attempt to own it.
Spending oodles on the Cup is a tradition that goes right back to its beginning. John Cox Stevens, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, led a six-man syndicate that brought a 31 metre schooner called America across the Atlantic Ocean in 1851 to make money. They began by placing adverts challenging all-comers (with no age, ability or experience restrictions) to race for a wager of £10,000 (the equivalent of about $1.5 million today), but got no takers.
America made its name later that summer when it joined 15 yachts for the Royal Yacht Squadron’s race around the Isle of Wight. The prize was a trophy costing just £100, but such was America ’s reputation after its convincing win that the syndicate sold the boat for $25,000 — about $5,000 more than they’d paid for it.
Since then, countless sums have been spent on attempts to win the America's Cup. The most persistent challenger was Thomas Lipton. Born in Glasgow, where his family owned a grocery store, he left for the US aged 14 with just $8 in his pocket and returned a millionaire. By the time he launched the first of his five challenges for the America’s Cup in 1899, he controlled 10 per cent of the world’s tea supply, yet he won only two of the 16 races he competed in for the trophy.
In nine contests between 1937 and 1983, the challenger won only three races. Two were by Australian media mogul Frank Packer, who spent more than $700,000 to win one race in 1962.
Eight years later, he had to dig deeper to come through the competition’s first qualification regatta, in which he faced Baron Marcel Bich, founder of Bic pens, who led four unsuccessful Cup campaigns. In the final, Packer won two races, but one was stripped after an acrimonious protest by the host club. His effort did at least show the world that Australians, who were dominant in tennis at the time, could be competitive in another sport.
The breakthrough came in 1983 when Australia II became the first foreign winner. It was owned by Alan Bond, who made his money in property, brewing and broadcasting, and reportedly spent $5 million on his successful America’s Cup campaign — after three failed attempts. He arrived in Rhode Island for the decisive contest with an innovative winged keel and a golden wrench with which he said he would remove the trophy from its plinth.
Perhaps this pursuit of sailing’s Everest took Bond’s attention away from his business empire. Within a decade, he was declared bankrupt, his company owing more than $6 billion. Five years after that he began a four-year spell in prison for fraud – yet most people will remember him for what he did on the water.
$65 million
The Aussie's supremacy was short lived, with the USA winning the trophy back in 1987. In 1992, US oilman Bill Koch spent $65 million on defending the America’s Cup. Ten years later, the qualification series featured five billionaires, including Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, and Patrizio Bertelli, CEO of Prada. In all, $500 million was spent by the challengers. “It’s so cheap, I’m surprised more people don’t do this,” Ellison quipped at the time.
There is a greater reason than financial gain, though. The America’s Cup is the last billionaires’ plaything where those with money can join in. Newspaper owners don’t get their fingers inky; football club owners never strap on their boots. An America’s Cup backer gets to sail with his staff, even if the speed of modern boats makes it unwise to do so in competition. “I want to be driving the winning boat,” Ellison said in 2002.
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$75 million
Few enter the Cup to make money, but it has commercial benefits. Auckland did very well out of hosting the America’s Cup in 2000 and 2003. It created 1,000 jobs and brought $75 million into the local economy, which explains why the New Zealand government supports its country’s bids.
Hosting the Cup does not always pay out in the long run, though. The Spanish port of Valencia, which staged the 2007 event, received $500 million of investment for regeneration and supposedly brought $3 billion in benefit to the city. It even helped to attract a Formula One race to Valencia.
Yet it was all built on sand. Cheap credit and corrupt politicians turned a boom town into a ghost town. Today, many of the America’s Cup buildings lie empty.
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$300 million
When you are worth more than $40 billion, as Ellison is, losing battles matters more than losing money. Some say that he spent more than $300 million on Oracle Team USA's successful defence of the trophy in September 2013 in what turned out to be one of the greatest sporting stories, with the Oracle racing team beating Emirates Team New Zealand 9-8 after trailing 8-1.
Building two massive catamarans — a racer and a spare — and running a 130-strong team of sailors, designers and so on, does not come cheap, especially with the leading staff on salaries of at least $20,000 a month, often a lot more.
Meanwhile, Land Rover BAR's bid for the 2017 America’s Cup is expected to cost at least $100 million. One thing is for certain ahead of next summer’s Bermuda showdown — whoever wins will have seriously deep pockets.
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A Dominant Italian Challenger Advances to Louis Vuitton Cup Final
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Head down, deflated and stewing in his starboard cockpit onboard American Magic’s Patriot, helmsman Tom Slingsby knew exactly where and how the New York YC challenger’s win-or-go-home race unraveled on Day 5 of the Louis Vuitton Cup Semi Finals. There had been plenty of mistakes in the series that put the team into its 4-3 deficit, but this one mistake well and truly did them in. And ultimately it was Slingsby’s call.
Winding back from this crucial moment at the top of Leg 1 of its eighth match against Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, American Magic had the stronger start. It was a similar scenario as their previous starts with Luna Rossa: they were to leeward, crossing the line at full speed and bow forward, a position that had the Italians promptly tacking away. The American’s tacked soon after to minimize any leverage and keep the race close. It was a less than perfect tack, certainly not as good as that of Luna Rossa with a much higher exit speed. Still, with a favorable wind shift American Magic controlled the race into the first cross and followed the playbook, tacked above the Italians and bouncing them back to the right.
There’s a known danger in engaging in a tacking duel with Luna Rossa, however. Their boat handling and down-speed maneuvers was their strength throughout the Preliminary races, the round robins and the Semi Finals. When the Italians came back, at full speed, from the right hand boundary on starboard for the next intersection, it was Slingsby who had the best view and the call of whether to cross and cover or duck and gain the starboard advantage at the top of the course.
Luna Rossa’s Francesco Bruni, in the silver boat’s port cockpit, knew he had the upper hand, and called the intersection perfectly. Shifting to a high mode as the boats came together made the American cross more difficult. The tack countdown cadence from Slingsby was far more rushed than normal, the turn was sharp and fast, and American Magic completed its tack with roughly 25 knots of exit speed. Luna Rossa, in its speed-build mode and pegging 35 knots, simply drove to leeward with 6 knots more boat speed, gave a hint of a luff and flicked the Americans away. Luna Rossa was then able to carry on to the left-side boundary, tack on an easy layline and sail away to its berth in the Louis Vuitton Cup Finals.
Given the strong performances of the Italians throughout the Louis Vuitton Cup races, they were certainly the favorites. They are difficult, if not impossible, to pass once comfortably ahead and they are, in the words of Emirates Team New Zealand’s Grant Dalton, the one challenger the defender fears most. Their pairing with American Magic in the Semi Finals rather than Alinghi Red Bull Racing, which fell handily to INEOS Britannia, not only produced compelling races, but gave the Italians the race practice they need before meeting INEOS in the finals on September 27.
“As a team, it’s been tough the last few days as the Americans fought back and brought themselves back into the semis,” said Luna Rossa’s Jimmy Spithill after racing. “But that was an important thing to go through. That sort of pressure, that hardship creates character in the team and will serve us well into the Finals.”
Slingsby, the American Magic ace starter, was clearly missing his opposite helmsman Paul Goodison, who was replaced by Lucas Calabrese. Calabrese was thrust into an extremely difficult environment and was improving day by day, but the chemistry was nowhere near the level of Spithill and Bruni. “The highs and lows of this sport are crazy,” Slingsby said after racing. “I genuinely believed we’d make a comeback…it’s brutal right now, but you hold your head high, lick your wounds and congratulate the winner. Paul falling down a hatch on the boat—you could never imagine that would happen.”
The first-to-seven Louis Vuitton Cup Finals now features two of the most experienced Cup teams in Luna Rossa, which has been trying to win the America’s Cup for more than three decades, and INEOS Britannia, which is now on its third consecutive challenge under Ben Ainslie (Bermuda, Auckland, and Barcelona). The AC75s of these two teams are different enough that each will have its strengths and weaknesses in different conditions; INEOS Britannia is quick in more breeze but not as nimble as Luna Rossa at the bottom of the wind range and Luna Rossa’s Achilles Heel has not yet been exposed.
The early exit of American Magic leaves the New York YC’s syndicate contemplating its future, but an emotional Terry Hutchinson, President of Sailing Operations, at least hinted after racing that the team would remain intact for another cycle. “It would be a shame to stop because we have such a good nucleus to the team,” Hutchinson said, “and yet we have to make sure it’s done in a way that’s right for winning but also manageable from the spend.”
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