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Luna Rossa dominates in Cagliari. The Senior and Y&W teams win the overall title and the Youth & Women’s title, respectively

Emirates Team New Zealand finished runner up at the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta Sardinia, behind Luna Rossa on their home waters and in front of their passionate home crowd in Cagliari.

Shotwick Lake served up a proper mixed bag for the latest Border Counties meeting: shifty breezes, gusts nudging 20 knots, plenty of close racing, and just enough chaos to keep the spectators entertained.

As the third day of Jura Scottish Series brought in sunshine and warmer temperatures, the six handicap classes enjoyed their longest race of the regatta, a coastal course down to the south of Loch Fyne, contesting their traditional Round Inch race.

It was a day that a Hollywood script writer would find hard to write, but for the hometown favourites Luna Rossa it was one of both high elation and brutal disappointment in front of their incredible fans.

The final day of racing in Sardinia once again delivered glamour conditions, the 14-17 knot south-easterly winds providing perfect racing.

While on Saturday morning the faster Maxi 1 and Maxi Grand Prix yachts crossed the Naples finish line of the Regata dei Tre Golfi, the offshore race of the IMA Maxi Europeans, it was only at 2245 last night that Giuseppe Puttini’s Shirlaf arrived.

The skippers competing in La Solitaire du Figaro Paprec have just started the second leg between Vigo, Spain, and Pornichet on France’s Loire-Atlantique coast — a 450-nautical-mile course that already promises to be as strategic.

Tudor Team Alinghi closed out the Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta Sardinia with a more competitive final-day performance, showing improved pace, communication and consistency across the final two fleet races on the gulf of angels.

Race 7 started in sensational fashion with the disqualification of the series leader, and home crowd favourite. Luna Rossa Women and Youth were judged to be premature starters.