Dispense with Luna Rossa 1 race: Louis Vuitton Cup

       The race was the first of the Louis Vuitton Cup, the Challenger Selection Series for the America's Cup, from 7 September 2013 have.

Artemis Racing, Challenger of Record for the America's Cup, said that they will not be ready at the earliest for the race to the end of July. They miss the next two races in regatts qualification, which means that the first race of the Louis Vuitton Cup will be Saturday, July 13, 2013 means.

Emirates Team New Zealand is expected to begin tomorrow and the course to win the first point of the regatta.

Luna Rossa is waiting for the decision of the International Jury of his protest against the actions of the Race Director made 29 June 2013 (Notice of Regatta 185 and 189

Luna Rossa believes that the issuance of such documents, the Race Director has the rules for the 34th America's Cup violated and exceeded its jurisdiction and authority.

It is generally the International Jury to meet the requirements of Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand and see all the changes AC72 class rules and protocol changes expected again in four teams.

You are then needed to requires on the basis of unanimity, tune rule changes and of the support of the majority for a change in protocol for all AC72-class.

If teams do not agree on this basis, to agree on the changes, and the rules remain as they are currently written

If this is the case, Regatta Director Iain Murray will make a decision about whether to return to the rules of origin is to make a security problem. If this is the case, as he said during his press conference on Thursday, then it must request an adjustment in the U.S. Coast Guard Permit event.

We do not know what will happen on this point.

Murray said the press conference on Thursday had the license in the process of negotiations with the U.S. Coast Guard for more than two years.

For the jury to defend taken by the Race Director, the position, he must prove that he acted in accordance with the protocol to use Article 16 to AC72 class rule changes establish according to a sentence in the article that require competitors to comply "all applicable laws and regulations of the city, state, national or state agency with jurisdiction for the case ..."

It should also be noted, as he believed that changes in safety improvements are needed, and had the power to go beyond recommending changes to four teams.

In a statement of 6 July 2013, the Race Director has confirmed that Emirates Team New Zealand had made, and met the satisfaction of the Director of Racing AC72 yacht in terms of structure and dagger-board rake up examination of the hydraulic system. Emirates Team NZ are the only competitor have this authority.

Emirates Team New Zealand, the weather is expected to complete the course 7 July 2013 and get the first point of the Louis Vuitton Cup.

by Richard Gladwell