Allagrande Mapei Racing Articles
Thunderstorms over Ustica: Lightning, Rain, but Little Wind
Overnight the leaders rounded the Italian island of Ustica in truly dramatic fashion. Brilliant sheet lightning ripped across the sky, heavy rain lashed the decks, and yet the breeze stubbornly refused to build. For the crews, it was a nerve-jangling mix: ghosting downwind in barely a whisper of air while braced for a squall that could hit at any moment.
With only 11 nautical miles covering the top four, every shift and every manoeuvre mattered.
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Storms, shifts, and sleepless nights — the Med turns cruel as the leading IMOCAs fight for every mile on the road to Montenegro.
20-09-2025
This isn’t just another leg. This is the decider — a course so sprawling, so unpredictable, and so packed with Mediterranean quirks that it promises to shake every ounce of stamina and strategy out of these sailors.
A Grand Tour of the Mediterranean On Friday morning Race Control revealed the course. And it’s a beauty. The fleet leaves Genoa, traces the jagged outlines of Corsica, Sardinia and Sicily, then bends south toward Greece before the final charge north into the Adriatic.
13-09-2025
It was the finish Ambrogio Beccaria had dreamed of since the start: an Italian skipper, sailing an Italian-flagged IMOCA, flying into his home waters of Genova under the glare of floodlights and the roar of a midnight crowd. After 600 hard miles, Allagrande Mapei Racing delivered the goods, claiming victory in Leg 4 of The Ocean Race Europe 2025 and proving that sometimes, yes, fairy-tales do come true.
12-09-2025
The Gulf of Genova has become the stage for high drama in The Ocean Race Europe 2025. After more than 400 nautical miles of pressure-cooker racing on Leg 4, the fleet is compressing once again. And right at the heart of the action – in home waters – is Italy’s own Allagrande Mapei Racing, fighting tooth and nail for the lead.
11-09-2025