America's Cup Team: Luna Rossa
The Luna Rossa Challenge is based in Italy and represents the Circolo della Vela Sicilia sailing club who is the 'Challenger of Record' for the 36th America's Cup. Luna Rossa won the Louis Vuitton Cup once and is reaching for the America's Cup now.
The Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team is based in Cagliari, Sardinia / Italy where they built their boat and continue to train until the races start.
On 20 October 2020 Luna Rossa launched their second generation AC75 race yacht in Auckland which arrived a few days earlier from Italy in an Antonov cargo plane.
(last updated: 10/2020)
Sailors
- Max Sirena (Team Director & Skipper)
- Francesco Bruni
- James Spithill
- Pietro Sibello
- Vasco Vascotto
- Shannon Falcone
- Francesco Mario Mongelli
- Philippe Presti
- Pierluigi de Felice
- Michele Cannoni
- Umberto Molineris (New Generation)
- Romano Battisti
- Andrea Tesei (New Generation)
- Davide Cannata (New Generation)
- Enrico Voltolini (New Generation)
- Jacopo Plazzi (New Generation)
- Matteo Celon (New Generation)
- Nicholas Brezzi (New Generation)
- Emanuele Liuzzi (New Generation)
Designers
- Andrea Bazzini (Performance)
- Stefano Beltrando (Quality Control Manager)
- Gwénolé Bernard (Head of Soft Wing Systems)
- Andrea Canciani (Structural Engineering)
- Marco Capitani (Sail Design)
- Mario Caponnetto (CFD Leader)
- Nicolas Carabelli (Aero Analysis)
- Horacio Carabelli (Co-Design Coordinator)
- Denis Corti (IT - Performance)
- Mark de Gids (Simulator Leader)
- Gabriele Di Trapani (Project Manager - Draftsman)
- Mathieu Durand (FSI & Optimization)
- Martin Fischer (Co-Design Coordinator)
- Alessandro Franceschetti (Head of Structural Engineering)
- Juan Enrique Garay (Head of Sail Design)
- Marco Gomiero (Simulator)
- Bruno Guilletat (Soft Wing Systems)
- Francis Hueber (CFD)
- Matteo Ledri (Performance - Simulator)
- Thomas Letanche (Structural Engineering)
- Fabrizio Marabini (Performance)
- Kenneth McAlpine (Rules Advisor)
- Julien Meunier (Construction Manager)
- Davy Moyon (Performance)
- Matteo Olivieri (Head of Foils)
- Diego Martin Panizza (3D Modeler - Draftsman)
- Andrea Pisano (Simulator)
- Michael Richelsen (CFD Aero)
- Douglas Schickler (Structure and Foil Systems)
- Davide Tagliapietra (Structure and Foil Systems)
- Andrea Vergombello (VPP)
- Andres Suar Vulcano (Naval Architect)
- Thiha Win (Boat and Foil Systems)
- Joaquin Zerbo (Project Manager - 3D Modeler - Draftsman)
- Andrea Zugna (Performance)
- Gilberto Nobili (Operations Manager)
Shore Team
- Giuseppe Acquafredda (Mast and Rigging)
- Diego Arnaiz (Electronics)
- Stefano Baruffaldi (Drone - Electronics)
- Michele Bella (Sail Loft)
- Roberto Berrozpe (Electronics - Instruments)
- Paride Bovolenta (Chase Boat)
- Andrew Burgess (Chase Boat)
- Massimiliano Carbone (Hydraulics)
- Carlos Cardona Mejia (Boat Builder)
- Antonio Concu (Winch and Deck)
- Fabio Corsini (Sail Loft)
- Michele Crotti (Automation Engineering)
- Marco Donati (Electronics)
- Ben Field (Boat Builder)
- Raffaele Fredella (Mast and Rigging)
- Joao Ganilho (Boat Builder)
- Brendan Jones (Boat Builder)
- Antonio Laghigna (Painter)
- Fabrizio Lisco (Mast and Rigging)
- Guido Longhi (Project Manager)
- Mariano Lucca (Boat Builder)
- Valentino Melis (Boat Builder)
- Federico Meloni (Boat Builder)
- Alan Morais (Boat Builder)
- Riccardo Mura (Diver)
- Angelo Napolitano (Machine Shop)
- Davide Pescuma (Hydraulics)
- Ties Rabe (Boat Builder)
- Stefano Riva (Boat Builder)
- Michael Robb (Boat Builder)
- Andrea Romani (Base Operations)
- Fabio Ruina (Boat Builder)
- Miguel Sanchez-Cuenca (Weather)
- Keith Sexton (Boat Builder)
- Gerardo Siciliano (Mast and Rigging)
- Mario Soi (Base Maintenance)
- Benjamin Tapper (Boat Builder)
- Maximiliano Valli (Sail Loft)
- Mark Webster (Head of Shore Team)
Service & Administration
- Marco Bertolotti (Head of Administration, Finance & Control)
- Liliana Cammalleri (General Services)
- Matteo Deidda (Assistant Chef)
- Monique Galassi (Team Secretary)
- Massimiliano Gessa (Assistant Chef)
- Sabina Giordi (Administration)
- Alessia Meloni (Team Secretary)
- Sandro Pilloni (Chef)
- Manuel Sanna (Chef)
- Francesco Mario Scano (Administration)
Communications & PR
- Rachele Visocchi (Press Office)
- Sara Paesani (PR & Communications Manager)
- Sebastiano Moise (Account)
- Giulia Caponnetto (Media)
Images/Photos: courtesy of Luna Rossa