The Iker Martinez Movistar trains these days together. Film Racing (Photo Jesus Renedo)

The third date of the GC32 Racing Tour 2017 will take the fleet to Palma to compete within the 36 Cup of King MAPHRE. In 2016, the GC32 made history as the first multi-class that competed in Palma Bay. This year, they return with a powerful fleet of ten ships that will include the Spanish Movistar of Iker Martínez and the Australian .film Racing, which debuts on the circuit.

The fleet will meet at the end of the month in Palma de Mallorca to contest the 36 Cup of the King MAPHRE (29 July to 5 August), third test to be scored for its 2017 circuit. The GC32 competed in the bay of Palma for the first time last year, and they come back to provide a new show ration on foils. A dozen squads have confirmed their participation, including Simon Delzoppo's .film Racing, which debuts as the first Australian team in the history of the class with the intention of completing the rest of the season and disputing all the events of 2018.

Although new in the class, Delzoppo has a long track record in sailing competition. Co-shipowner with Ludde Ingvall of the Maxi Nicorette, a real-time winner of the Rolex Sydney Hobart 2004, shows a special predilection for the catamarans, especially those of competition like Nacra 5.0, 5.5 and 5.8, with which he won the United States National Championship in 1989. temporarily removed from the competition to focus on his professional career in the new technologies sector, he would return to the water on board a F18 catamaran, one of the modalities he tried before his jump to the GC32.

.film Racing will invest much of the next two weeks training next to the Movistar of Iker Martínez for the 36 Cup of King MAPHRE. For the Spanish team will be his third GC32 Racing Tour test this season, following his debut at the GC32 Riva Cup (where he finished sixth) and his participation in the GC32 Villaimius Cup (fourth general and winner of the ANONIMO Speed Challenge as the event's fastest team). Movistar is sixth of the circuit provisional, tied to 10 points with the third and the fourth.

The incorporation of the Australian team raises to eight nationalities that will be represented in class GC32 for the 36 Cup of the King MAPHRE: Argentina, Australia, Spain, the United States, France, Japan, Monaco and Switzerland. The GC32 program at King MAPHRE's 36 Cup will combine barlovento-sotavento tests with others on America's Cup-style tours, and will include new sessions of the ANONIMO Speed Challenge, in which crews and guests will compete to choose the event's fastest boat. So is the general at the moment: