"Armin Strom Sailing Team," winner of the Anonymous Speed Challenge in Garda (Photo by Jesus Renedo)

The three Swiss teams of the GC32 Racing Tour have taken up the positions of the first podium of the 2017 season. The best of the day was Team Tilt, but the title was the "Realteam," who beat his compatriot by four points in the final computation. Third was the "Armin Strom Sailing Team." Iker Martínez's "I'M Racing Movistar," which debuted in Garda waters, ended in a sixth meritorious position. The final day of the GC32 Riva Cup began with the last round of the new Anonimo Speed Challenge, which in each event of the season will define which team sets the highest average speed. The best brand of the day is for the "Team Argo" by Jason Carroll, with a magnificent figure of 27.65 knots, although far from the 31.02 knots established on Friday by the "Armin Strom Sailing Team" by Flavio Marazzi, which has on board the Galician Iago López Marra.

"It is fun, in addition to a great opportunity for guests on board to enjoy this unique experience, the same as we experience when sailing at speeds of 32-35 knots on the tour," said Marazzi, president of the GC32 Class. The Swiss recognizes that he likes the transferred-transferred format, as in addition to ensuring a high speed, he requires ability to perform the maneuver. "It takes time to prepare the maneuver and do it at the exact time." Marazzi received the Anonymous Nautilo Watch as the winner of the first Anonymous Speed Challenge.

2017-05-13: Switzerland disbanding the US of the GC32 leader of Lake Garda

The Swiss Realteam faces the last day of the GC32 Riva Cup with a seven-point advantage in front of the provisional. The Spanish I'M Racing Movistar failed to find the proven performance yesterday, and today he signed a discreet card (8-10-8-8) that places him seventh of the provisional.
The 11 teams of eight nationalities that compete for the first date of the 2017 GC32 Racing Tour season could today add four more partials to their locker. After a first day in white and a second day with medium breezes, Lake Garda today provided the fleet with conditions of 15-18 knots of wind of a southern component, the four sleeves planned can be completed.

Realteam, new leader of the GC32 Riva Cup (Photo Jesus Renedo)

Team ENGIE, who was going out in the water this morning in front of the provisional, saw his options fade. The French team started the day by receiving a penalty for an incident with Team Tilt and then suffered a hook-up with a corporal that kept him away from the title fight. The French team scored 5-2-9-3 and is now third, ten points from the leader.

12 / 05 / 2017: Team Engie (USA) leader of the GC32 Riva Cup, I'm Racing Movistar is fifth

The Lake Garda today opened the locker for the eleven teams participating in the GC32 Riva Cup, which were able to complete four sleeves and one round of the new Anonimo Speed Challenge. Four teams scored partial wins and the classification at the end of the day shows three teams separated by one point in front of the provisional. Iker Martínez's I'M Racing Movistar debuted on the GC32 Racing Tour winning the first manga of the championship and is fifth in the general.

The first Spanish team in the history of the GC32 Racing Tour could not start better. The I'M Racing Movistar of the double Olympic medalist Iker Martínez showed a very rapid adaptation to the GC32 flying catamarans, winning the first punctuable test for the 2017 circuit. After an opening for history, the Spanish team would sign a second and a sixth in the following two tests. In the latter, when it seemed in a position to add its second partial victory to return to the leading land, it scored a painful tenth for a combination of bad luck and problems with a polea.

"Real Team" competing in the GC32 Riva Cup (Photo Jesus Renedo)

The most regular of the day was Team ENGIE, who added two third and a seventh before signing his first partial victory of the season to become the first leader of the GC32 Riva Cup. Realteam has also improved. At the end of this second day of competition (first in which it was possible to regatta), the Swiss team is second of the provisional, tied with Team ENGIE. Realteam has not won any sleeve today, but has scored three seconds, demonstrating the importance of regularity in the GC32 fighting

11 / 05 / 2017: White day in the Lake of Garda for the GC32 for the absence of wind

The Lake of Garda today was unusually quiet for the opening day of the GC32 Riva Cup, and the 11 participants in the first punctuable test for the GC32 Racing Tour could not start their locker. The action is moved to tomorrow. The Italian lake is considered a true mecca for boats with fils thanks to its combination of wave absence and a generous wind... usually... it is clear today that no.

Participants and organization waited 40 minutes in the water, but the situation did not improve, so the fleet was on its way to the ground in the hope that at some point the minimum conditions would be met... Unfortunately, the wind remained absent the rest of the afternoon (Photo Jesus Renedo)

The day awakened in a suspicious calm way, frustrating the intention of the eleven teams participating in the GC32 Riva Cup, the first test of the GC32 Racing Tour 2017. The fleet left Fraglia Vela de Riva, located in the north of Lake Garda which is the organizing club of the event, well advanced the morning towards the race field, accompanied by a south component breeze that seemed enough to start the championship. But a few minutes before the first exit, the wind died while the fog invaded the lake, partially hiding the mountains surrounding Riva del Garda... you will have to wait for the second day to witness spectacle...

10 / 05 / 2017: Start the "GC32 Racing Tour 2017" of the flying catamarans with Spanish boat

The GC32 Racing Tour starts tomorrow at the Italian Lake of Garda with the GC32 Riva Cup (11-14 May). The first event of the 2017 season will have a powerful fleet of 11 ships of eight nationalities, including the debut of Iker Martínez's I'M Racing Movistar, the first Spanish team on the flying catamaran circuit. The GC32 Riva Cup will open tomorrow the 2017 program of the GC32 Racing Tour, fifth season since the GC32 incorporated fils to become flying catamarans. The test will be held in Lake Garda, at the foot of the Alps, and will have a spectacular fleet of 11 teams of eight nationalities: the United States, Switzerland, France, Monaco, Japan and, for the first time, Bermuda, Argentina and Spain. The identity of the team that will defend the Spanish pavilion, the I'M Racing Movistar led by Iker Martínez, has been announced today.

The Spanish I'M Racing Movistar, led by Iker Martínez (Photo Jesús Renedo)

I'm Racing Movistar is the first Spanish team in the history of the GC32 Racing Tour. Its premiere will also be the debut of Iker Martínez as the pattern of a GC32 in competition. The experienced Basque regatist (49er gold medal in Athens 2004 and silver medal in Beijing 2008) will lead a powerful squadron that will include Anton Paz (last Olympic champion of Tornado in Olympic Games, Beijing 2008), Fidel Torienzo (Spanish best classified in the past Mini Transat), Fernando R. Rivero (preOlympic Star and cruise world champion) and Portuguese Luis Brito (regatist of Sail Portugal GC32 in the Extreme Series 2016). "I am very happy with my crew, there is a lot of talent on board," explains Martínez, who has chosen Guatemalan Juani Maegli as coach. Although he debuts at the GC32, Iker is familiar with the catamarans, following his participation in the Nacra 17 class in the 2016 Rio Olympics and the M32 in the Match-Race world circuit. Previously, the Basque pattern had sailed with the SL33 and AC72 of the Luna Rossa team in the preparation of the America's Cup 2013. "This will be my first competition with a catamaran with foils," recognizes the Ondarribia pattern, which arrives in Garda after two weeks of training. "We have been able to train in Palma with Malizia - Yacht Club of Monaco, and it was great. Our goal is to be fast in the first race, improve our ship management and finally be able to get to the top. I'm looking forward to seeing what it's like with 11 ships, but we know we need time to navigate well. Garda will be hard, but we just have to debut and learn as quickly as possible."

08 / 07 / 2017: Everything on the Lake of Garda for the start of the GC32 Racing Tour 2017

We are just three days away for the start of the GC32 Racing Tour 2017 at the GC32 Riva Cup, in the waters of the Italian Lake Garda... on the horizon the doubts in the performance of the three teams composed of the younger crews: the Swiss subchampion 2016, the French supported by the Groupama Shoe, and the Bermudian in which the crew compete without experience in navigation. They all face this first match of the season as a final rehearsal before their assault on the Red Bull Youth America's Cup, which is being fought in Bermuda within a month. Three of the 11 confirmed teams to premiere the GC32 Racing Tour 2017 in the Italian Lake of Garda are made up of young people between 18 and 24 years. These are the Swiss Team Tilt, the French Team France Jeune and the Bermudian Team BDA: The "Children" of the circuit.

The Swiss boat "Team Tilt" which has Sebastien Schneiter as its patron (Photo Jesus Renedo)

04 / 05 / 2017: "Code Red" (Argentina) debuts in the GC32 Riva Cup in Lake Garda

The Argentine "Code Red" will debuts next week at the GC32 Riva Cup in Italy, in Lake Garda, which will be the first test to score for the GC32 Racing Tour 2017. The team led by Federico Ferioli raises the continents to four with representation in the flying catamaran circuit. "Code Red Racing Team" is led by the Argentine regatist Federico Ferioli, a true devotee of speed with a long experience in navigation and car. Ferioli has inherited both hobbies from his father Jorge, another of the team's components, who in 1966 won the Boston Teapot Trophy as an official on the Argentine school ship ARA Libertad, setting the world speed record at the North Atlantic sailing crossing.

Equipment of Marinepool and Forward WIP on board (Photo Jesus Renedo)

Federico Ferioli is a common of the multicascos, and last year he finished fifth in the F18 World Cup in Buenos Aires. It also has experience in catamarans Class A and Nacra 20 with foils along with former Sunfish world champion Lucas González Smith, now team director and timer / tactical on board the "Code Red Racing Team." It is an eminently South American team... from Argentina come Jordan Rivas (captain of the ship and expert in great length) Juan Cruz Benitez (regatista de F18) and Nicolás Chernobilsky (naval designer and regatista de Star based in Denmark)... from Guatemala is the regatist of Nacra 17 Jason Hess (third in the world 2016 of F18). The team is completed with the Portuguese Renato Conde, regatist of the SAP Extreme Sailing Team in the Extreme Series and member of the Spanish land team MAPHRE in the past Volvo Ocean Race. In this season preparation, "Code Red Racing Team" has the support of the South American regatist most experienced in GC32, the Uruguayan Diego Stefani, previously with the Swiss ARMIN STROM Sailing Team and currently sailing with the Japanese "Mamma Aiuto!"

GC32 Racing Tour 2017
1) 11-14 May - GC32 Riva Cup / Riva del Garda, Italy
2) 28 June - 1 July - GC32 Villaimius Cup / Villaimius, Sardinia, Italy
3) August 2nd - August 5th - 36 Copa del Rey MAPHRE / Palma, Spain
4) 13-16 September - GC32 Orezza Corsica Cup / Calvi, Corsica, France
5) 12-15 October - Marseille One Design / Marseille, France