HAMILTON, Bermuda (AP) Helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand benefited from another mistake at the start by skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA to win Race 7 of the America’s Cup on the Great Sound on Sunday.
The Kiwis, looking to rebound from their soul-crushing collapse in 2013, moved to 5-1 in the first-to-seven match.
Team New Zealand has won six races but began with a negative point because Oracle won the qualifiers.
Spithill was slow to the starting line and that’s all Burling, 26, needed to put his 50-foot foiling catamaran ahead for good, winning by 12 seconds.