The Defender of the 33rd America’s Cup, the Société Nautique de Genève (SNG), today received an official Notice of Challenge from the Circolo di Vela Gargnano (CVG) with a certificate for a 90x90foot vessel as per the Golden Gate / BMW Oracle challenge for the 33rd America’s Cup.
SNG welcomes the Italian entry; CVG was a challenger in the 32nd America’s Cup and is world renowned for its prestigious Centomiglia regatta. It has now challenged with a multihull as per the Golden Gate challenge.
SNG and Alinghi have always supported a multi-challenger event and continue to do so. At a meeting on 23 April, the Swiss Defender asked the American Challenger of Record to open the challenger selection series. SNG continues to …Â Details
Defending Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton blasted his car after finishing out of points in ninth position at the Spanish Grand Prix.
The 24-year-old said his McLaren was so inconsistent along the Circuit de Catalunya it felt at times like driving on ice.
“What can I do?” he said after being lapped by race winner and fellow Briton Jenson Button. “I drove my heart out, as I always do, it’s just that the car is not good. I had no grip.”
He added: “It’s just a shame they (McLaren) haven’t given me a car to defend the championship with. It’s that bad because I’m driving the socks off it, yet there’s just no hope…Â Details
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Aaron Ciantar and Angelo Tedeschi claimed overall victory in the Malta Grand Prix of the Sea for the second year in a row as the current world champions, aboard Team Seagull, were declared winners of yesterday’s endurance race in Sliema.
Ciantar and Tedeschi, who last year topped the charts at the end of the season-opening Malta GP aboard Conam Yachts, had finished second behind Team 26 in yesterday’s race. However, the race jury imposed a four-minute penalty on the British duo for overspeeding, meaning that Ciantar and Tedeschi were awarded victory ahead of Baia Attolini.
Audrienne Ciantar and Shelley Jory completed a podium double for …Â Details
The future of transportation is now available for lease.
In the next few weeks, 450 consumers in California, New York and New Jersey will begin picking up fully electric Mini coupes, charging them at home and using them as their daily commuters for the next year.
They’ll pay $850 a month, plus taxes and insurance, for the right to drive the first highway-legal electric cars that don’t cost more than $100,000 to hit the streets in more than a dozen years. As such, they’ll serve as pioneers in what’s being hailed as the next great moment in automobile history: the electric car era…Â Details
