2011–2013 America's Cup World Series

The inaugural America's Cup World Series were held between 2011 and 2013 in the lead up to the 2013 America's Cup. They were raced in AC45 catamarans. The competition was rocked by a cheating scandal in which Oracle Team USA had made an unauthorized modification by using additional ballast.^[1] The team withdrew from the competition on 8 August 2013.^[2] Penalties imposed included expelling three team members,^[3] a $250,000 fine, and a one-point penalty for each of the first two races of the Match in which they would otherwise score a point.^[4] This also affected boats on loan to Ben Ainslie Racing^[2] and HS Racing, which withdrew from the competition. After reallocating points, overall winner for 2011/2012 was declared to be Team New Zealand, and for 2012/2013 it was Luna Rossa Piranha.^[5]

America's Cup World Series

Sport	Sailing
Founded	2011
No. of teams	8
Country	New Zealand  United States  France  Sweden  Spain  China  South Korea  United Kingdom  Italy
Related competitions	America's Cup, Louis Vuitton Cup

Teams

Club	Team	Helmsman	Sail loft
Sail Korea Yacht Club	Team Korea	Chris Draper Nathan Outteridge Peter Burling	Doyle Sailmakers
Royal Swedish Yacht Club	Artemis Racing White	Terry Hutchinson Charlie Ekberg	North Sails
	Artemis Racing Red	Santiago Lange Nathan Outteridge	North Sails
Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron	Team New Zealand	Dean Barker	North Sails
Golden Gate Yacht Club	Oracle Racing 4	James Spithill Tom Slingsby	North Sails
	Oracle Racing 5 HS Racing	Russell Coutts Darren Bundock Roman Hagara	North Sails
Měi Fán Yacht Club	China Team	Mitch Booth Charlie Ogletree Frédéric le Peutrec Philip Robertson	UK Sailmakers
Yacht Club de France	Energy Team	Loïck Peyron Yann Guichard	Voilerie Incidences
Aleph Yacht Club	Aleph Sailing Team (defunct)	Bertrand Pacé Pierre Pennec	North Sails
Real Club Náutico de Valencia	Green Comm Racing (defunct)	Vasilij Žbogar	North Sails
Circolo della Vela Sicilia	Luna Rossa Piranha	Chris Draper	North Sails
	Luna Rossa Swordfish	Paul Campbell-James Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Francesco Bruni	North Sails
Royal Cornwall Yacht Club	Ben Ainslie Racing[6]	Ben Ainslie	North Sails

AC45 World Series

2011–12 AC45 World Series

Team	Cascais 6–14 August 2011		Plymouth 10–18 September 2011		San Diego 12–20 November 2011		Naples 11–15 April 2012		Venice 15–20 May 2012		Newport 26 June – 1 July 2012		Standings
	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	total
Oracle Racing 4	10	8	6	10	10	10	4	9	8	9	DSQ (9)	DSQ (9)	(47)	(55)	(102)
Team New Zealand	9	10	10	9	8	9	3	8	6	8	5	8	41	52	93
Artemis Racing White	8	9	8	DNF 3	7	5	10	4	10	7	7	4	50	32	82
Energy Team	5	3	5	5	9	8	6	7	7	10	6	3	38	36	74
Oracle Racing 5	6	7	7	8	5	3	8	3	3	3	DSQ (10)	DSQ (5)	(39)	(29)	(68)
Team Korea	7	4	9	6	4	6	5	6	5	4	3	7	33	33	66
Luna Rossa Piranha	–	–	–	–	–	–	9	10	9	6	8	10	26	26	52
Luna Rossa Swordfish	–	–	–	–	–	–	7	5	4	5	4	6	15	16	31
Aleph-Equipe de France	3	5	3	7	6	7	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	19	31
China Team	3	3	3	4	3	4	3	3	3	2	–	–	15	16	31
Green Comm Racing	4	6	4	DNS 3	3	3	–	–	–	–	–	–	11	12	23

2012–13 AC45 World Series

Team	San Francisco 21–26 August 2012		San Francisco 2–7 October 2012		Naples 16–21 April 2013		Standings
	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	match race	fleet race	total
Oracle Racing 4	DSQ (9)	DSQ (86)	DSQ (10)	DSQ (79)	DSQ (10)	DSQ (80)	DSQ (29)	DSQ (245)	DSQ (274)
Luna Rossa Piranha	5	85	1	36	7	70	13	191	204
Ben Ainslie Racing	DSQ (3)	DSQ (37)	DSQ (4)	DSQ (79)	DSQ (8)	DSQ (65)	DSQ (15)	DSQ (181)	DSQ (196)
Team New Zealand	7	43	9	57	6	71	22	171	193
Artemis Racing White	8	48	8	72	5	40	21	160	181
Energy Team	6	55	5	47	4	58	15	160	175
Luna Rossa Swordfish	4	51	1	20	9	80	14	151	165
Oracle Racing 5	DSQ (10)	DSQ (42)	DSQ (6)	DSQ (56)	–	–	DSQ (16)	DSQ (98)	DSQ (114)
Team Korea	2	65	3	40	–	–	5	105	110
Artemis Racing Red	1	38	7	52	–	–	8	90	98
China Team	1	15	2	28	2	30	5	73	78
HS Racing	–	–	–	–	DSQ (3)	DSQ (36)	DSQ (3)	DSQ (36)	DSQ (39)

• From the Newport AC45 World Series through all the second season of racing, all Oracle Racing boats (including those loaned to Ben Ainslie and HS Racing) were found to have raced out of measurement, with a 3 kg ballast surplus in the dolphin striker. All points are therefore subject to change and a new winner for both seasons to be declared.^[7]