America's Cup Jury: Notice
Oracle Penalized For Luna Rossa Surveillance
Jury Decides Oracle Team USA Penalty
Loss of AC72 Sailing Days for America's Cup Defender
San Francisco, USA, December 29, 2012
After determining before Christmas that Oracle Team USA had infringed the
Protocol for the 2013 America's Cup by allowing an observer boat to come
within 200m of Luna Rossa's AC72 during testing, the International Jury has
heard from concerned parties and penalized Oracle by shortening the length
of their Second AC72 Sailing Period. The defender's window for sailing
will end five days early, on April 25th, instead of April 30th, though the
total number of permitted sailing days (45) is not being reduced. Starting
May 1, there will be no restrictions on AC72 sailing, though.
This is less severe than the penalties sought by Luna Rossa and Emirates Team New Zealand, who suggested to the Jury that loss of a permitted daggerboard or wing spar along with a reduction in sailing days would have been appropriate. Oracle in their defense cited that they felt the nature of the pictures was not significantly different than those that could be obtained outside the required distance, and that in the incident in question Luna Rossa was not actively testing, training, or competing.
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