First installment-The men and women who will determine the fate of the America’s Cup.

Ainslie Ben The 4-time Olympic gold medalist, Sir at home, at age 47 still has little to ask of his sailing career except for one thing, the most difficult: to bring the America’s Cup back to England.
A feat that so far, with two attempts under his belt, he has resoundingly missed.
Inside the Britannia team his too many roles (helmsman, chief, image man) have caused some discontent, but Big Ben does not seem intent on stepping aside. Allison James Allison is the junction, inside Ineos Britannia, between the worlds of Formula 1 and sailing.
In the British union, he is the Technical Director, a role he holds after an important career in F1 with Mercedes, Renault and Ferrari, with numerous constructor championships won by the cars he worked on as a designer.
This with Britannia is his first sporting challenge outside the world of motors, called upon to bring a different design expe- rience from that of sailing, fundamental with the new A’s.

Arrivabene Silvio Arrivabene From his first challenge with Mascalzone La- tino to the role of Co-General Manager of Alinghi Red Bull Racing, the Italian is one of the most highly regarded technicians in today’s America’s Cup world, so much so that he plays a crucial role in a team that has very high ambitions like Alinghi.
He comes from his experience in American Magic, where he had to manage the crisis after the 2020 capsize, and has the qualities needed to hold together a young team that needs to gain experience but at the same time wants to becompetitive already from this edition.

Beavis Elise The 30-year-old Kiwi has been with Team New Zealand since the 2017 America’s Cup and now serves as Performance Engineer.
She has her hand behind the modeling of the deck shapes, and more, of the New Zealand boat, and back in 2017 her work had per- formed, on the catamaran that went on to win the cup, a fairing that proved to be more aerodynamic than Oracle’s.
The Kiwis are relying heavily on her for the team’s present and future. Bernasconi Dan English engineer, Team New Zealand’s head of design, holds a Ph.D. in modeling mathematics and aerodynamics, supported by a master’s degree from the University of Cambridge.
He worked at McLa- ren Formula 1 for six years, leading the vehicle modeling team, before swapping fast cars for fast boats.
He invented the AC 75 from scratch, working out the boat concept and box rules.
Thanks to him, the New Zealanders demonstrated in the last Cup a huge design advantage.

Bissaro Vittorio L’Ingegnere “volante” is one of the new additions to Luna Ros- sa’s sailing team, where he serves as trimmer.
In Italy he was one of the pioneers in the Na- cra 17, with which he competed in an O- limpiade (Rio 2016 with Silvia Sicouri) and won a World Championship (with Maelle Fra- scari), confirming himself as one of the strongest specialists in the world of foiling.
Will he be able to be decisive?

Botin Marcelino To coordinate the design team, Alinghi Red Bull Racing chose a profile of utmost expe- rience, a true America’s Cup veteran.
In fact, Botin has participated in numerous campaigns, including those with Emirates Team New Zealand for the 2007 Cup and with American Magic in the last edition.
The Iberian designer is a specialist in the world of fast and grand prix boats, a security in short to coordinate a design team that in the rest of the elements is quite young and ambitious. Bruni Francesco The Palermo native remains one of Luna Rossa’s papable helmsmen even with the ar- rivo of Ruggero Tita to the team.
Nono- spite the competition from younger sailors, Bruni is one of the most complete and multifaceted sailors in italy, a key resource for Luna Rossa also because of his match racer “skills,” which, even with the new racing and boat formula, are always crucial in the America’s Cup.
He showed in the last edition that he can do that killer “high mode” at the helm that will still be able to make a difference.

Burling Peter Hard to find a sailor today who, at only 33 years old, can count on a palmares similar to that of the Team New Zealand helmsman: three Olympic medals, twelve world medals, two-time America’s Cup winner, the ultimate winner.
All this while always displaying a confidence, flanked often by a technical overpower, that leaves its mark on the heads of opponents and not only on the race course.
He does not seem at all intent on stopping winning.
A true predestined.

Cammas Franck The French veteran is the head of Orient Express’s performance department, tasked with bringing to the team his multidisciplinary experience and knowledge of the foil world, which Cammas has explored in various ways but especially with ocean trimarans.
His experience will also serve to coordinate a team that came last among the entries and has had less time to develop the design of the boat. Capitani Marco If Luna Rossa’s sails often looked “cleaner” than those of other teams a large part of the credit goes to Marco Capitani, head of the Italian team’s sail department.
Designer on the force at North Sails, for many years he has been following as Sail Designer and directly on the water as Performance Coach the most important Grand Prix and One Design racing programs (TP52, Maxi72, RC44, Farr40, Melges32, Mel- ges20).
After 2000, 2003 and 2007, this will be the fourth America’s Cup with Luna Rossa.

Caponnetto Mario His departure from Luna Rossa and landing in American Magic was among the most surprising, being one of the key men on the Italian design team in the last Cup.
Specializing in fluid dynamics, he has already won the America’s Cup with Oracle and is considered one of the leading experts in CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics).
He is to strengthen the American team, which promises to be one of the most competitive among the challengers.