The next race of the Maserati Multi 70 will be in February, at the RORC Caribbean Race

The Maserati Muti 70, of Giovani Soldini and with the Spanish Oliver Herrera and Carlos Hernández on board, crossed the line of arrival in the bay of Rio de Janeiro at 3.39 p.m. UTC. A glow just 14 miles from the arrival, I deprive the Maserati of the triumph in compensated time in the race, as its considerable advantage is blurred by the impotence of the crew, who saw how its rival the Love Water, did not find it and cut the finish line at 8.54 a.m.

The French trimaran of the Ultimate 80 class, is 10 meters larger than the Maserati Multi 70, and has established the new record of the race, leaving it in 7 days, 20 hours and 54 minutes, while the Maserati Multi 70, employment 8 days, 20 hours and 39 minutes. The previous record was in the possession of the Maserati since 2014 with a time of 10 days, 11 hours and 29 minutes, but with a single record of 70 feet, while the one established in this edition has been by a multicash, hence the difference between one record and another.

It should be remembered that the Maserati came to have 100 miles of advantage, over its rival, but the presence of a "high," slowed the speed of Maserati Multi 70, as it sailed towards it, while its rival was launched with a stable wind of aft, placing itself with an advantage of 40 miles to about 300 miles of the arrival, however Maserati Multi 70 renavigated without the influences of the high, just 30 miles from its rival, which certainly allowed it to preserve the advantage that gave it "compensation of times," but they found it at no less than 14 miles of its arrival, which it did not provide it with a way of doing so at least 6 hours, which it was not to navigate the desired.

After the end of the race, Soldini stated: "We are very happy with the new modifications made according to the studies of the engineers of the Maserati Innovation Lab, we were able to solve some problems we had before and the ship is now much faster. We reached peaks of 38 knots of speed, which has allowed us to navigate from you to you with a trimaran, 4 meters longer than ours."

For his part, the president of the Fiat Chrysler Group, John Elkann, who has sailed as a timonel and triber in the race, said: "We fought as lions from the beginning of the race, but we have had some failures that have delayed us at first. But Giovanni Soldini and everyone in the crew are very good regatists and thanks to their knowledge we could find a solution for each setback: to solve a problem with the central rudder, we used some parts of the engine. It has been fantastic to see how, in times of difficulty, it is possible to achieve results with great perseverance while maintaining the mood!"

16 / 01 / 2020: Maserati retains the leadership of the City of the Cabo-Rio... but its advantage is reduced

At 16 hours UTC, the Maserati Multi 70 had passed the equator of the race and was 1602 miles from the race, maintaining a low 8-mile advantage over the LoveWater. But the progression in miles sailed in 24 hours had fallen well, as Maserati had completed a total of 266 miles against the 324 of its competitor

A strong anti-cyclone just in the middle of the South Atlantic Ocean, has now become the great protagonist of this edition of the ocean race Cape To Rio, as it has led to Maserati Multi 70's accumulated advantage over its great rival the Ultimate 80 LoveWarer, being reduced to nothing. Both trimarans are in the 12-hour position part of today's UTC, 1498 miles from the arrival in Rio, although the Maserati for its position, the tracking confirms it as the absolute leader of the race in real time, having overcome the rest of the fleet that took the exit on January 4.

While the weather situation was in favour of the tactical option chosen by the Maserati Multi 70 to cross the high pressure, the one that Soldini confirmed in his statements made at 12 noon today, "On board Maserati Multi 70 we are really going to top our chances. The wind began to strengthen again an hour and a half ago and now we go 30 knots in the waves with 20 knots of aft wind. It is an incredible battle against LoveWater, which follows us less than 10 miles behind."

The Maserati was in the lead on Tuesday, 14, and since then I have kept a distance with his rival ranging from 30 to 35 miles. On Wednesday 15, Maserati Multi 70 sailed 17 knots with east-north and south-west winds, retaining a 35-mile advantage. But Soldini expressed in the afternoon "that the situation was quite complex," as they sailed in the stern towards the high pressure located in the south-east of Rio. Soldini continued "we, referring to the Italian trimaran, began to notice the fall of the wind and therefore the speed of the ship, while our rival LoveWater, is approaching at full speed as it has not yet entered the zone of influence of the high."

Also these days, it was known from statements made from the triaran, that LoveWater, during the first night of the race had had a collision with an unidentified floating object, which caused the resulting failure that could be repaired and continued in the race.

15 / 01 / 2019: Last hour: "Maserati" takes command of the Regata Ciudad del Cabo - Rio de Janeiro

Liderate of the smallest... the Maserati Multi 70 is 10 pies of length smaller than its rival

In the 4 o'clock position tracking (UTC time) on Tuesday 14, the Maserati Multi 70 of Giovani Soldini, is the new leader of the race, overcoming its rival in 30 miles.

The trimaran in which the Canarian regatists Oliver Herrera and Carlos Hernandez compete, is located 2,309 miles from the arrival, after having traveled a total of 455 miles in the last 24 hours, while their rival the Ultimate 80 Love Water, is 2,339 miles from the end of the race and has sailed 356 miles in the same period of time as the Maserati Multi 70. A tactical decision of Soldini's ship, has led the Maserati Multi 70 to find perfect conditions to its characteristics that have allowed it to navigate 99 miles more than its rival, in the last 24 hours and not only to recover the 30 miles that separated them at 16 hours UTC yesterday, but to advance it by 30.

13 / 01 / 2019: Regata Ciudad del Cabo - Rio: Maserati Multi 70 repairs and sails of second

The Canarian regatists Oliver Herrera and Carlos Hernandez are part of the crew, where he also sails John Elkann, President of the Fiat- Chrysler Group Cars

The Maserati Multi 70, is found second after overcoming the failure in one of the pistons that go up and down the folis of its floats. This breakdown took place 8 hours after the departure when the Italian trimaran, in which the Spanish regatists Carlos Hernandez and Oliver Herrera formed in their crew, was in the lead with about 20 miles of advantage over their rival, the French trimaran Love Water, belonging to the class "ultime," with 80 feet of length, 10 more than the Maserati Multi 70, La avería that in the words of its pattern Giovani Soldini, said never had this problem since the ship was incorporated into the folis, must be remembered that the Maserati Multi was the first to be the ocean.

To repair the malfunction of the Maserati Multi 70, he had to rent the bow sails and sail only with the greatest with the resulting speed reduction, this circumstance that was used by the Love Water to put miles in between. After solving the malfunction, the Maserati Multi 70 recovered its performance and Soldini recorded it with these statements: "The first hours after solving the problem with the fire piston, they were fantastic: with the right wind and a flat sea Maserati Multi 70 reached its best speed and we could close most of the disadvantage with Love Water. During the night the wind became a wind of tail and this morning, with a rough sea, we suffered a little, but now we have a good lateral gap to the north, where the wind must rise in the next few hours. Finally the waves have become a little longer now and we are sailing well and smoothly". At 20 hours UTC on the 12th, the Maserati Multi 70 sailed 28 knots north-west, already moving away from the African coast, while its rival sailed 27 to a more southern direction.

In the position tracking at 8 a.m. UTC the Maserati Multi 70, had sailed a total of 319 miles in the last 24 hours and was 2,747 miles from the arrival. While its rival the Love Water marched in the head with 94 theoretical miles of advantage and had completed a total of 383 miles, it was 2,652 miles from the line of arrival located in Rio de Janeiro Bay.