CAMPER welcomes jury ruling

Emirates Team New Zealand Media Update: CAMPER welcomes jury ruling

22 April 2012

CAMPER with Emirates Team New Zealand has welcomed the ruling of the international jury on the team’s application for redress.

The jury ruled that the Race Committee had failed in its duties in several areas. However, the jury decided not to grant CAMPER any redress as they believed that the omissions of the Race Committee did not make CAMPER’s finishing score in Leg 4 significantly worse (In Leg 4 CAMPER finished 93 seconds behind Telefonica).

Part of the conclusion of the International Jury found; The failure to post the answers given to Telefonica on the electronic notice board was an omission of the race committee and the failure of the Race Committee to identify and resolve the inconsistency in application of NoR 5.2.2 (b) until after the conclusion of Leg 4 was an omission of the race committee

CAMPER skipper Chris Nicholson says that despite no redress being granted the team welcomed the ruling.

“We feel strongly that the actions of the Race Committee led to confusion between teams and so it’s positive that the jury has recognised this fact. In light of this redress hearing it has become clear to me that Telefonica has not broken any rules."

“We believe that following this ruling that Race Committee processes will be improved and this should avoid a repeat of this type of incident in the future. Now it’s time for all of us to move on and focus on sailing.”

The full jury ruling is here

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