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Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli's team celebrates after winning the Puig Women's America's Cup race in Barcelona, Spain, Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, originally named Prada Challenge, then Luna Rossa Challenge, is an Italian sailboat racing syndicate first created to compete for the 2000 America's Cup. It won the Louis Vuitton Cup on its first attempt in 2000, but then lost the America's Cup match against the defending champion team, Team New Zealand .
Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team The 2024 PUIG Women's America's Cup is the inaugural Women's Americas Cup and will be held in Barcelona, Spain . Both the Youth and Women's America's Cup will use the America's Cup 40 AC40 class, a one-design 12 m (40 ft) foiling monohull class.
Luna Rossa's AC75 training in Cagliari in 2019.. Since the 1980s, Italy has been a serious challenge contender for the America's Cup.Italian teams have won the Challenger Selection Series three times: the Louis Vuitton Cup in 1992 with Il Moro di Venezia, in 2000 with Luna Rossa and the Prada Cup in 2021, again with Luna Rossa.
Luna Rosa Prada Pirelli Team's AC75, left, and American Magic's AC75 boat sail during Semi-final America's Cup Regatta ahead of the 37th America's Cup sailing race along Barcelona's coast, Spain ...
Emirates Team New Zealand beat Luna Rossa 7-3 in the 2021 America’s Cup in Auckland. Luna Rossa swapped in young helmsmen Ruggero Tita, an Olympic gold medalist, and 19-year-old Marco Gradoni ...
Their team, Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli, currently led by Max Sirena, had previously lost to Emirates Team New Zealand in the 2000 America's Cup, the 2007, and the 2013 Louis Vuitton Cup finals. On 13 March 2018, Jimmy Spithill announced he was returning to the team, after his tenure as helmsman in the 2007 America's Cup .
On Wednesday, its latest pursuit of the America’s Cup ended when it was beaten 7-3 by Team New Zealand in the 36th America’s Cup match, a best-of-13-race series. Luna Rossa loses but looks ...