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+39 CHALLENGE

+39 CHALLENGE

Circolo Vela Gargnano - ITA

Il team italiano +39 Challenge (ex Clan Des Team), che ha lanciato, attraverso il Circolo Vela Gargnano (CVG) la sua sfida alla 32ma America's Cup, è stato il primo Challenger ufficiale ad unirsi a BMW ORACLE Racing team, nel tentativo di strappare l'America's Cup ad Alinghi. Lo Yacht Club Difensore, la Société Nautique de Genève, ha accettato formalmente la sfida del CVG il 25 marzo 2004.

Lorenzo Rizzardi è Presidente dello Yacht Club sfidante e Capo del Sindacato di + 39 Challenge. Sebbene +39 sia al suo debutto nel teatro dell'America's Cup, può contare sull'esperienza di velisti di fama internazionale. A capo del team velico c'è, infatti, l'italiano Luca Devoti, medaglia d'argento nella Classe Finn ai giochi olimpici del 2000. Al timone Devoti ha voluto che ci andasse il suo amico/rivale Ian Percy, che sul podio di Sydney lo aveva preceduto, aggiudicandosi l'oro. Il fuoriclasse inglese e il noto campione italiano rappresentano una solida base di partenza per il team. Per garantire una retrovia eccellente, alla tattica ci saranno Tommaso Chieffi e Andrew Simpson.
Il progettista Giovanni Ceccarelli è uno degli yacht designer più noti in Italia e ha partecipato all'edizione 2002/2003 di America's Cup, firmando la barca Mascalzone Latino. Ceccarelli, che ha deciso di avere un team progettuale composto da italiani e stranieri, si avvarrà della collaborazione del Professor Giovanni Lombardi, docente di ingegneria aerospaziale presso l'Università di Pisa.
+ 39 Challenge ha acquistato uno scafo del 1999 utilizzato come barca test da Alinghi per la vittoriosa campagna del 2003. + 39 Challenge non ha partecipato al Marseille Louis Vuitton Acts perché la maggior parte del suo equipaggio era coinvolta nelle Olimpiadi. Quello di Valencia è stato il suo debutto come Challenger.
Il team ha concluso il Valencia Louis Vuitton Acts 2 in settima posizione e il Valencia Louis Vuitton Acts 3 in ottava posizione. + 39 Challenge è arrivato ottavo nel tabellone del Campionato del Mondo Classe AC 2004

Website: www.piu39challenge.it

+39 and Valencia
The +39 base

The +39 base - The project

The +39 Valencia base is designed to be a laboratory of mental and physical energy for the Brescian team; its designers' efforts were focussed on creating a container rich in spatial qualities and in sensorial stimuli for teamwork.
Athletes and managers must work with maximum commitment and this is made possible by an environment rich in quality and one pleasant to "stay in".
The structure has a high volume of around 35x35x13 m. high and is subdivided into 7 large functional areas.

+39 and Sicily
The choice of Sicily as the operating base for the + 39 challenge was born from social reasons rather than sporting ones.



If on the one hand it is true that a sea had to be chosen, plus a city with right up-to-date medical-sporting facilities, on the other hand, it is also certain that Italy boasts many other locations with these characteristics.
The choice of Sicily was determined by careful analysis of the territory, its characteristics, the quality and potential of a population which takes lessons from no one in terms of hospitality.
Today, months after making our decision, we confess to have been won over not only by the warmth and passion of Sicilians, but also by their professionalism, and by willingness to participate in a project that only partly represents a sporting endeavour.
Today, we too can proudly feel to be a little Sicilian, contaminated by the enthusiasm and will to endeavour of a territory unique in the world. These are the considerations that make Sicily's sailing vocation and its climatic characteristics similar to those of Valencia - venue of the 2007 America's Cup - take the back seat.
It is not by chance therefore that the boat to compete at Valencia will be built in Sicily.
After choosing Sicily and Palermo as our base camp, one of our main objectives was to root our presence in the territory, to become part of it. To breath the same air and to live looking through the same eyes as Sicilians. This is why this summer we chose to associate our name with the culturally most representative event representing Palermo, both in its natural city context and that of the rest of Italy.
We created territorial marketing synergy with Palermo City Council, by sponsoring "Kals'art", a cultural initiative combined with the social recovery and valorisation of one of the symbol districts of the city, that not by chance overlooks the sea. Also, to complete the territorial penetration - and without ignoring the national and international perspective distinguishing our project - we have sponsored Palermo football club, back in "Serie A" (the First Division) after more than thirty years. The first example of sports marketing using another sporting discipline as a communication vehicle. Via football and what Palermo represents in Sicilian and national football, we have placed the + 39 class in the most visible dimension possible.
Furthermore, out of respect for sporting ethics, we wanted to make our training boats - anchored at Marina di Villa Igiea, another symbolic place of the city - available to the youngsters of the Palermo sailing club schools, so as to transmit the spirit that drives our adventure to them.

Yacht Club: Circolo Vela Gargnano
Country: Italy (ITA)
Syndicate Established: 2004
Sail Number: ITA 59
Syndicate Head: Lorenzo Rizzardi
Team Leader: Luca Devoti
Designer: Giovanni Ciccarelli
Helmsman: Iain Percy
Afterguard: Tommaso Chieffi, Andrew Simpson

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