Defender Team New Zealand and Italian challenger Luna Rossa won one race each on the first day of the 36th match for sailing America’s Cup at Auckland, New Zealand. That added to the perpetual Cup enigma of which has the quicker boat. Team New Zealand won the start and led around all marks to win the first race by 31 seconds. That seemed to confirm the expectation they might have a boat-speed advantage. But Luna Rossa crossed the start line first in the second race and held out New Zealand by a shrinking margin of seven seconds in the second race.
