INEOS Team UK chief executive Grant Simmer expects the most recent stoush between Team New Zealand and Challenger of Record Luna Rossa to all blow over before too long. But while the panel could rule Team New Zealand out of the event, Simmer told Newstalk ZB's D'Arcy Waldegrave he expects they will come to a different decision. "I'd be amazed if Team New Zealand wasn't sailing in the Christmas regatta." Now, December's competition in Auckland is the only chance for racing between syndicates before the Challenger Series gets underway in mid-January, with the America's Cup match to follow in early March. "The Challenger series is going to be hard-fought, and then the match is going to be hard-fought; that would be my long-term prediction."

Source: New Zealand Herald November 21, 2020 02:28 UTC