Since last February Chris Dickson, with his crew and the rest of the team, has been working in Auckland carrying out a long series of tests, technical evaluations and practicing match racing.

The BMW Oracle Racing sailing team have now finished its Southern Hemisphere summer training session and the activities will relocate first to USA for the UBS Trophy (19-26 June) and then to Valencia from around mid July.

Like the other syndicates present in Spain, the Larry Ellison's team will use the Real Club Náutico de Valencia accomodations.