Maserati Multi 70 passed Lampedusa and is heading towards Malta. The Italian Team was able to gain 5 miles of advantage over their competitors, but, with more than 70 miles to go, the race is far from over.
Maserati Multi 70 passed Lampedusa and is heading towards Malta. The Italian Team was able to gain 5 miles of advantage over their competitors, but, with more than 70 miles to go, the race is far from over.
Maserati Multi 70 is around 20 miles from Lampedusa, the last buoy before setting course to the finish line in malta. After passing Favignana, around midnight (22 UTC), the Italian Team and their competitor Mana started to gain speed thanks to the north-westerly wind, after a challenging day very close to each other north of Sicily.
22 o’clock (20 UTC), Maserati Multi 70 is 284 miles away from the finish line, Mana is right behind.
At 20 local time (18 UTC), Maserati Multi 70‘s Team finally found a light wind that lets them sail at 12 knots towards Favignana. Mana, just behind, is sailing at 10.5 knots.
It’s 13.00 local time (11.00 UTC), a little more than 24 hours after the start of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, and Maserati Multi 70 and Mana are engaged in a ruthless match race, less than half a mile between each other, north of Sicily.
12 hours after the start of the race, at midnight, the two MOD 70s Maserati Multi 70 and Mana are duelling head-to-head in front of TorreFaro, half a mile between them, almost out of the Strait of Messina.
At 15.00 local time (13.00 UTC), around 3 hours after the start, Maserati Multi 70 passed Capo Passero, and is leading the fleet with less than a mile of advantage over Mana.
Giovanni Soldini and Maserati Multi 70’s Team crossed the starting line today, at 12.10 local time (10.10 UTC), from the Grand Harbour, overlooked by Valletta, Malta, for the 41st edition of the Rolex Middle Sea Race, organized by the Royal Malta Yacht Club. 50 boats entered the race, divided in 7 start groups: the first group took off at 11.00 local time (9.00 UTC), while the multihulls were the last to set sail.
The forecast calls for light winds. Soldini: «We will give our best!».
Aboard the trimaran also John Elkann, fresh from the Cape2Rio
