Aussies to feature in America's Cup IT may be the US taking on New Zealand on the scorecard but it will be Aussie versus Aussie when the Americas Cup match starts in September. Team New Zealand yesterday won the right to challenge for the 34th America's Cup after defeating the Italian team Luna Rosa 7-1 in the best-of-13 challenger series. The victory has earned the Kiwis the right to take on Oracle in the America's Cup match in September on windy Francisco Bay in radical 72-foot, high-speed catamarans with fixed sails and capable of racing speeds nearing 90km/h. And while Australia did not field an entry in the America's Cup, the famous sailing country has plenty of representation on and off the water with Iain Murray the regatta director and the US boat steered to be steered by Sydney sailor James Spithill. At the last America's Cup Oracle helmsman Spithill became only the second Australian skipper in history to claim The Auld Mug as a member of the US Oracle team. This time round the Oracle campaign again boasts numerous Australians with Spithill steering the Defender likely to be joined on the fixed wing catamaran by compatriots including Olympic gold medallist Tom Slingsby and former Australian youth champion Kyle Langford. Former Olympic silver medallist Glenn Ashby has been sailing aboard the New Zealand boat during the challenger series with Adam Beashel, the younger brother of five-time Olympic sailor Colin, the bowman aboard the Kiwi catamaran. New Zealand won the America's Cup in 1995 and 2000 with their Challenger series win yesterday coming just a day after the New Zealanders set a new speed record in the radical machines being raced for the first time in an America's Cup. The Kiwis got their AC 72 footer to hit the incredible speed 47.18 knots _ almost 90km/h _ with the previous record 44.15 knots.. "It's a shame we didn't hit 50,"" said Beashel. The lead-in to September's America's Cup has been marred by the death of a crewmen, major damage to yachts and allegations of cheating.