Sea breeze conditions returned to Valencia on Tuesday allowing two full flights of races to be completed at the Louis Vuitton Cup. There was plenty of action on the race course where the South African Team Shosholoza earned an impressive victory over Luna Rossa Challenge. The Shosholoza match upstaged what many assumed would be the fight of the day between Mascalzone Latino-Capitalia Team and Desafío Español. The Italian Luna Rossa team began the day undefeated, but eventually lost both races of the day, dropping their second match of the afternoon to BMW ORACLE Racing. The best match of Flight 5 took place between Luna Rossa Challenge and BMW ORACLE Racing. This was previewed as a battle between undefeated teams, but by the time this second match of the afternoon for both teams started, Luna Rossa had already fallen to Shosholoza. By the end of racing on Tuesday, it was the American boat that would be at the top of the table, undefeated in five matches. As expected, the battle to be included in the top four challengers is fierce. Only the top four will qualify to advance to the Semi Finals and three teams currently occupy that spot, with Mascalzone Latino-Capitalia Team, Victory Challenge and Shosholoza all on 8 points from 3 Louis Vuitton Cup victories. The home team, Desafío Español 2007, sits one point further back.
