The Italian Ambroggio Beccaria stole all protagonism and is the hero of the 2019 mini-transat. Now what we want to know when we look at the race tracker is not who leads the race but for how long can Beccaria, on a Series boat, shadow François Jambou, the leader of the fastest category.
In fact for some hours Beccaria, who has been on the tail of Jambou for the last 24 hours, was the first boat on the race (series and protos mixed) even if his boat is a series boat meaning a GRP boat with aluminium mast that can be bought from a manufacturer, in this case Pogo and sails on a race where there are many protos racing.
Protos (from prototypes) are one off boats that contrary to series boats can be made of carbon and have canting keels and foils.
So what he have here is a guy that on a slower (about 7%) low tech cheap boat stays on the tail of the first of a class of expensive full carbon racers with canting keels and foils: what a sailor!
Just to give you an idea of what is a Mini proto look at this one, that is now well behind his low tech, inexpensive boat.
Of course the Italians have already noticed the huge potential of this sailor and call him the extraterrestrial. I thought they were exaggerating but what he is making here is just unbelievable. I hope the Italians have the good taste to give him quickly a competitive class 40 because on the mini racers he has nothing to prove or to learn anymore and his potential is huge.
You can follow the race here: https://www.minitransat.fr/en/follow-race/cartography
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