A beautiful victory for Luna Rossa, who after a “take-off” in which it risked capsizing and after avoiding a lightning bolt that struck the sea a very short distance from the Team Prada Pirelli boat, beat Emirates New Zealand for the first time in this edition in a Louis Vuitton Cup regatta.
A video shows – and lets you hear – the reactions on board the two boats when the electrical discharge hits the sea: quite colourful.
The comparison, however, due to the presence of the Defenders, did not assign points for the ranking of the challengers but it is worth a lot from a psychological point of view. The afternoon in the waters of Barcelona was characterized by rain and wind of 13-15 knots. Given the "dangerous" weather conditions, the rest of the program was canceled.
