The
new Italian syndicate is emerging (02/28/04)
(source
: TG
Canale 5-Mediaset)
Lorenzo Rizzardi, president of the Circolo Vela
Gargnano, accepted to reveal to the Italian Website
tgcom.it (the Internet version of the Italian television
company Mediaset) a few details about his project
with Cesare Pasotti.
"Why not to take on this slightly insane adventure",
Lorenzo Rizzardi now said, who refused any comment
two days ago.
According to the Italian website, the networking aspect
are in process and several contacts were already made
with local economic leaders and political authorities
in the very rich region Lombardy to ensure effective
support of the project activities.
Regional links are helped by the success of
the sailing events organized on Lake Garda and, in
particular, the Match Racing World Championship won
by the american Ed Baird during the last summer.
"It is not a question of a consortium with a
a powerful ship-owner who gives the basic financing,
but of a group of fanatics able to federate all lombardian
economic realities around this project", Lorenzo
Rizzardi concluded.
According to the Italian newspaper Il Giornale
di Brescia, Riva del Garda (on lake Garda, Italy), which
hosted the 2003 edition of the Match Racing World Championship,
could be the homeport of a new Italian syndicate.
There has been speculation that a group leaded by Cesare
Pasotti, recent winner of the Centomiglia Cup with his
"Clandesteam", is working on a project to look at how
an other "lake challenge" can be launched
for the 32nd America's Cup.
"The only concrete link between me and the America's
Cup is the organisation of the XVIe Pedrini Cento Cup
as my company Velaevento Gestion is one of the partner
of the Circolo Vela Gargnano", reacted Cesare Pasotti,
after he affirmed he considers the Cup only as a dream.
The Circolo Vela Gargnano is quite evasive and its president
Lorenzo Rizzardi refused with any comment.
But the speculation continues and a possible partnership
with the Lombardia region (which was one of the sponsor
of the "Clandesteam") is now evoked.
