Challengers for Now (2020)
A challenge without comparison, the oldest trophy in the sporting world. 1000 days, 100 professionals, 1 obsession: winning the America's Cup and win for Italy.
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What does it take to win the America's Cup? You need a boat, a team, and a lot of willpower. It's this need to win that pushes a team to fight all the way to the end. The America's Cup is a challenge against oneself.
How do you build a boat that flies? Luna Rossa is an amazing technological object. Not only is it a boat, it is an ongoing challenge in constant evolution. Sailing on her, with her, is a unique feeling, it's almost like flying.
Designing a new class means experimenting, pushing limits to the maximum, until you reach the breaking point. But only when you know how far you can push can you understand from where to start again.
In an America's Cup time is the most precious commodity, where you have almost no margin for error. Time is also your worst enemy; the team works relentlessly to optimize every minute it has to be back on the water as quickly as possible.
At the Cagliari headquarters after the lockdown activities have resumed and training sessions revved up. Mastering a machine as complex as an AC75 requires many hours on the water and on the simulator to learn how to control the unpredictable.
Everyone has a challenge to win. But only as a team can one achieve great accomplishments. A group of over one hundred people, by collaboration and sharing, turns into a close-knit and motivated team.
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