Some Matteo quotes are here America's Cup, de Nora: Barcelona is the ideal choice and we are not mercenaries - Ruetir
On Jeddah: “We have to make a distinction between how Saudi Arabia is perceived and how it actually is. I’ve been there several times, it’s an incredible country, populated above all by young people, which had a very important project linked to sport and the America’s Cup in particular. It was the only place, for example, that would have financed 100% the women’s America’s Cup ”.
On SailGP: “SailGp is a beautiful circuit, which also uses boats expressed by the America’s Cup and which we also look at as a very valid opportunity to train the teams competing for the Cup. But it is something different from the latter. We are not interested in organizing an annual circuit, like Formula One, with boats that tend not to change in order to guarantee continuity to the event and rightly reduce costs. No, the America’s Cup has to be something else in our vision. It is something that does not exist otherwise, unrepeatable, unique. The top of technology, of innovation. This is what Team New Zealand is looking at, and from this derive many other things, such as the sailing speed record attempt to be held soon or the hydrogen-powered support boats, of which the first model has just been launched.“
And the teams? There are the defender and for now four challengers, but there is constant talk of the entry of other teams. One French, maybe a Spaniard, maybe another Italian. In short, the desire for an America’s Cup like Valencia 2007 seems to be back, thanks also to the choice of the venue in Europe.
“Valencia was a wonderful edition of the Cup. But how many teams could really win? Three, maximum four. Here, for us this is no longer the line that the America’s Cup must follow: we are not interested in having so many teams, as much as having teams that can win. And those who are already registered on the card are. I am not ruling out that there may also be other teams, there are those who are working on it in some of the countries named. If there will be, we will be delighted ”.
On Jeddah: “We have to make a distinction between how Saudi Arabia is perceived and how it actually is. I’ve been there several times, it’s an incredible country, populated above all by young people, which had a very important project linked to sport and the America’s Cup in particular. It was the only place, for example, that would have financed 100% the women’s America’s Cup ”.
On SailGP: “SailGp is a beautiful circuit, which also uses boats expressed by the America’s Cup and which we also look at as a very valid opportunity to train the teams competing for the Cup. But it is something different from the latter. We are not interested in organizing an annual circuit, like Formula One, with boats that tend not to change in order to guarantee continuity to the event and rightly reduce costs. No, the America’s Cup has to be something else in our vision. It is something that does not exist otherwise, unrepeatable, unique. The top of technology, of innovation. This is what Team New Zealand is looking at, and from this derive many other things, such as the sailing speed record attempt to be held soon or the hydrogen-powered support boats, of which the first model has just been launched.“
And the teams? There are the defender and for now four challengers, but there is constant talk of the entry of other teams. One French, maybe a Spaniard, maybe another Italian. In short, the desire for an America’s Cup like Valencia 2007 seems to be back, thanks also to the choice of the venue in Europe.
“Valencia was a wonderful edition of the Cup. But how many teams could really win? Three, maximum four. Here, for us this is no longer the line that the America’s Cup must follow: we are not interested in having so many teams, as much as having teams that can win. And those who are already registered on the card are. I am not ruling out that there may also be other teams, there are those who are working on it in some of the countries named. If there will be, we will be delighted ”.
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