Series
Challengers for Now
Documentary
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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Seasons & episodes
1Chapter One9 Jun 2020 · 5mWhat 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.
2Chapter Two9 Jun 2020 · 5mHow 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.
3Chapter Three9 Jun 2020 · 5mDesigning 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.
4Chapter Four9 Jun 2020 · 5mIn 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.
5Chapter Five5 Nov 2020 · 5mAt 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.
6Chapter Six5 Nov 2020 · 5mEveryone 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.
7Chapter Seven5 Nov 2020 · 5mDetails are crucial and make the difference. Infinitesimal grams are stripped off the hull to gain fractions of knot-speed on the water: races are won also thanks to these little numbers.
8Chapter Eight5 Nov 2020 · 5mThe team is getting ready to leave Cagliari and move to Auckland. A complex logistic operation which also includes the load of the hull on an Antonov aircraft. The countdown to the first race has begun.
Details
- First aired
- 9 Jun 2020
- Last aired
- 5 Nov 2020
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- Italian
- Episodes
- 8
Cast
Davide TagliapietraHimself
Keith SextonHimself
Max SirenaHimself
Shannon FalconeHimself
Gilberto NobiliHimself
Romano BattistiHimself
