Sailing-America’s Cup Crews in Run-up Regatta
- On Friday, America's Cup teams began a three-day preliminary regatta in the Bay of Naples, with nine crews competing in 40-foot foiling monohulls to test their speed and skills ahead of next year's main event.
- The event features eight scheduled fleet races using one-design AC40s, with the two yachts posting the highest points advancing to a winner-takes-all match race final on Sunday.
- Italy's Luna Rossa, skippered by former New Zealand America's Cup winner Peter Burling, set the pace in Thursday practice. Burling said, "We feel like we're in really good shape to perform this weekend."
- Preparations faced minor setbacks: GB1 skipper Dylan Fletcher sustained "scratches" from a collision, while ARC Team USA's Harry Melges nearly missed competing after breaking his foot last week during training.
- Teams have established bases in nearby Bagnoli as local authorities regenerate the littoral to host the main America's Cup next year. Sunday's regatta final determines this event's winner, though it does not affect Cup standings.
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America's Cup excitement is high in Naples with the Preliminary Regatta for sailing's most prestigious competition getting under way on Friday. (ANSA)
They are an important test for the teams in competition in the oldest sailing competition in the world; but also for Naples, which will host it
From September 24th to 27th in the Gulf of Naples takes place the second phase of the preliminary races with teams that challenge each other with AC40
(Adnkronos) - Complicated start for the Naples Preliminary Regatta, which kicked off today with almost three hours of waiting due to insufficient wind conditions. The first two attempts were interrupted after the boats lost their flight on the foils. At the third start, however, the regatta went to [...]
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