Jimmy Spithill believes Team New Zealand are getting more than the rub of the green when it comes to umpiring decisions. The defender still got the better of Team NZ in second race, the sixth of the series, claiming their first win of the Cup match. In what was a thinly veiled attempt to apply pressure to the umpires, Spithill claimed not only have the umpires favoured Team NZ in today's races, but earlier on in the regatta. The umpiring team falls under America's Cup Race Management (ACRM), which the Oracle-aligned America's Cup Events Authority (ACEA) have previously gone to great lengths to point out they are an "entirely independent" body. As you would expect, Team NZ skipper Peter Burling believed the penalty on Oracle was warranted.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 24, 2017 20:03 UTC