Italians on plane home

Sam Davies reports on the crunch match at the bottom of the table, and looks at the other matches sailed today.

Louis Vuitton Cup - Round Robin Two - Race Day 7

Overview: Mascalzone Latino fails to win crunch match against Le Defi and are the first team to drop out of the LV Cup.

Alinghi secures top spot and will race their final match against Prada tomorrow.

Victory secure coveted 'top' runners up spot, finishing in fifth, and so will choose their opponent in the quarter final repechage.

GBR challenge finish sixth. Although tied on points with Victory, the Swedes still have to race Oracle and have won more races in this second round than GBR

Team Dennis Connor in seventh and is likely to end up racing GBR Challenge in the semi-finals.

Overall results - read across the columns. This overall points include the 1 point deducted from OneWorld's total.

Pos

Syndicate

Raced

Alinghi

OneWorld

Oracle

Team DC

GBR

Prada

Victory

M Latino

Le Defi

Total

Overall

1

Alinghi

7

-

W: 0:27

L; 0:04

W: 0:49

W: 1:26

W: 0:29

W: 2:11

W: 5:54

6

13

OneWorld

8

L: 0:27

-

L: 0:40

W: 1:19

W: 1:05

W: 0:54

W: 0:21

W: 4:01

L: 0:57

5

12

Oracle

6

W: 0:04

W: 0:40

-

W: 0:18

W: 2:00

L: 1:55

W: 2:40

5

10

7

Team DC

8

L: 0.49

L: 1:19

L: 0:18

-

L: 0:46

L: 0:41

L: 0:13

W: 1:09

W: 1:12

2

6

6

GBR

8

L: 1:26

L: 1:05

L: 2:00

W: 0:46

-

L: 0:16

L: 1:01

W: 1:40

W: 0:14

3

7

Prada

7

L: 0:54

W:1:55

W: 0:41

W: 0:16

-

W: 0:10

W: 1:42

W: 1:04

6

10

5

Victory

7

L: 0:29

L: 0:21

W: 0:13

W: 1:01

L: 0:10

-

W: 1:17

W: 1:19

4

7

9

M Latino

7

L 2:11

L: 4:01

L: 2:40

L; 1:09

L: 1:40

L: 1:42

L: 1:17

-

L: 1:10

0

1

8

Le Defi

6

L: 5:54

W: 0:57

L: 1:12

L: 0:14

L: 1:04

L: 1:19

W: 1:10

-

2

2

Matches remaining:

Alinghi vs Luna Rossa
USA 76 vs Le Defi
Orm vs USA 76

See Sam Davies's report on today's action on the following pages...