Team NZ just struck a great partnership with Luna Rossa. They guys at Sailing Anarchy say it well:

The agreement puts some real pressure on Oracle to accelerate their program, but Artemis will be the most hurt here as the odd man out, and Cayard’s got to be incensed. Time will tell whether the Swedish team’s cooperative relationship with the Defender is truly in their own best interest, but one thing is for sure: Winning the Louis Vuitton Cup just got a hell of a lot harder. While for us and ten million screaming Italians, it just got way more fun.