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Two-time defending champion Emirates Team New Zealand won the second preliminary regatta of the 37th America's Cup cycle by using flawless tactics and getting a big assist from a spectacular nosedive by Italy's Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It was the first major regatta held on the Red Sea. This regatta and one in mid-September in Spain were largely exhibitions sailed in AC40s, which are half-size test versions of the foiling 75-foot monohulls that will be sailed in the America's Cup next fall off Barcelona.
