{"id":3817,"date":"2012-07-02T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/?p=716"},"modified":"2012-07-02T11:48:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T14:48:13","slug":"defender-still-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/defender-still-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Defender Still King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week proved to be a statement event for\u00a0the US defender of the America&#8217;s Cup as<a href=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spithill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-717\" title=\"Spithill\" src=\"http:\/\/bwsailing.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Spithill-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a> Oracle Team USA was prominent in\u00a0all areas of the AC World Series event. Jimmy Spithill&#8217;s team claimed the\u00a0overall 2011-12 season title with a strong second place finishes in both\u00a0the match racing and fleet racing in Newport. Spithill also claimed the\u00a0overall season Fleet Racing Championship while Sweden&#8217;s Artemis Racing won\u00a0the inaugural season&#8217;s Match Racing Championship.<\/p>\n<p>His veteran stable-mate very nearly stole the day in front of a capacity<br \/>\ncrowd of spectators at Fort Adams. Russell Coutts won the Newport Match<br \/>\nRacing Championship over Spithill and almost took out the fleet race as<br \/>\nwell, but was denied that honor by Chris Draper&#8217;s Luna Rossa Piranha team,<br \/>\nwho took advantage of a penalty to the Coutts team to grab a lead they<br \/>\nwould extend to the finish, to grab the Newport Fleet Racing Championship.<br \/>\nCoutts was under intense pressure in the latter stages of the race from the<br \/>\nItalian Swordfish team, but just held on for second place.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Newport event marks the end of the first season of AC World Series<br \/>\nracing and follows previous events in Cascais (POR), Plymouth (UK), San<br \/>\nDiego (USA), Naples and Venice (ITA). Racing will start anew next month<br \/>\nwith the 2012-13 AC World Series in San Francisco from August 21-26. The<br \/>\nnew Ben Ainslie Racing will join the circuit as it comes to the host city<br \/>\nof the 34th America&#8217;s Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americascup.com\/en\/Latest\/News\/2012\/7\/ORACLE-TEAM-USA-SPITHILL-wins-2011-12-AC-World-Series\/\">www.americascup.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week proved to be a statement event for\u00a0the US defender of the America&#8217;s Cup as Oracle Team USA was prominent in\u00a0all areas of the AC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruising-news","category-news-and-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/bw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}