Chapter One
Challengers for Now - S1 - E1
What does it take to win the America's Cup? You need a boat, a team, and a lot of willpower. It's this need to win that pushes a team to fight all the way to the end. The America's Cup is a challenge against oneself.
Challengers for Now: Season 1 - 8 Episode s
1x1 - Chapter One
June 9, 2020
What does it take to win the America's Cup? You need a boat, a team, and a lot of willpower. It's this need to win that pushes a team to fight all the way to the end. The America's Cup is a challenge against oneself.
1x2 - Chapter Two
June 9, 2020
How do you build a boat that flies? Luna Rossa is an amazing technological object. Not only is it a boat, it is an ongoing challenge in constant evolution. Sailing on her, with her, is a unique feeling, it's almost like flying.
1x3 - Chapter Three
June 9, 2020
Designing a new class means experimenting, pushing limits to the maximum, until you reach the breaking point. But only when you know how far you can push can you understand from where to start again.
1x4 - Chapter Four
June 9, 2020
In an America's Cup time is the most precious commodity, where you have almost no margin for error. Time is also your worst enemy; the team works relentlessly to optimize every minute it has to be back on the water as quickly as possible.
1x5 - Chapter Five
November 5, 2020
At the Cagliari headquarters after the lockdown activities have resumed and training sessions revved up. Mastering a machine as complex as an AC75 requires many hours on the water and on the simulator to learn how to control the unpredictable.
1x6 - Chapter Six
November 5, 2020
Everyone has a challenge to win. But only as a team can one achieve great accomplishments. A group of over one hundred people, by collaboration and sharing, turns into a close-knit and motivated team.
1x7 - Chapter Seven
November 5, 2020
Details are crucial and make the difference. Infinitesimal grams are stripped off the hull to gain fractions of knot-speed on the water: races are won also thanks to these little numbers.
1x8 - Chapter Eight
November 5, 2020
The team is getting ready to leave Cagliari and move to Auckland. A complex logistic operation which also includes the load of the hull on an Antonov aircraft. The countdown to the first race has begun.