Teams are judicial persons, not natural, they exist independant of their members.
Deviding a team, means that a team is broken up in parts and these parts continue as a separate entities.
The articles in SI 1.6 of the SI are meant to keep teams from "hiring" skippers, an action that is directed (solely) at giving a team an advantage they would otherwise not have.
The SI for the VTC as of 14.02.2010 (last time i looked) allow a team to split in parts without any consequences for skipper like being blocked for sailing or otherwise. In th SI the status of parts is not mentionend beyond the original "old" team. However logically the parts are old too ... members, ranking and rating etc. stem from the original...
"If a team is devided in two teams, then there is no suspension. The original team keep position and stats"
unfortunately for administrative reasons devision of teams has led to creating new stats, ranks, names for the split-off part.
The only reason for splitting where the old would dissolve is where the parts make up less then the whole, aka the sole remaining admin is inactive, a sole remaining member has registered the team name as trade mark etc. The original team (that is no longer eligible to race) will automatically default to inactive team.
SI for the World Team Racing Championship 2010 are not published yet, so at present there is no connection, meaning sailing for the WTRC 2010 is at no time limited by events in the VTC, nor is a skipper blocked from sailing for the WTRC 2010 when that skipper is blocked from sailing a match for the VTC. The WTRC 2010 NOR only makes registration of a team at the VTC manditory.
If the past is anything to go by, the VTC ranking and or rating will be used to draw groups for round robins in the WTRC, this to avoid a situation where better teams eliminate eachother in the first round, while less good teams survive the first rounds by lack of opposition.
As always take good note of applicable rules and regulations and if you are not sure, you can always request for redress with the protest committee or request some statement from the race committee or other authorities.
Obviously a teams eligebility for particiaption, as well as the skippers eligibillity to sail for a team will be regulated in NOR and or SI so you have to keep track of those.
For VTC go here:
http://itbyc.org/vtc/si.phpFor WTRC 2010 go here:
http://www.wtrc.vskfun.com/For ITBYC adapted Appendix D of the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing go here:
http://www.itbyc.org/appendix-d.php