After 6 months of training in Spain and for the first time in an Official race since December 2002, Team Luna Rossa will set sail under the flag of the Yacht Club Italiano, the most ancient Sailing Club of the Mediterranean Sea.

"This is our first race after Cup's last edition", skipper Francesco de Angelis said. "Until today we have developed the Technical Project with a reduced Team. Now, for the first time, we can count on an enlarged Sailing Team".

"Our goal of these races is to know and test new sailors in order to define, with a meaningful turn-over, the Group that will take part to the next phase", de Angelis added. "During Valencia's regattas we'll have onboard wellknown sailors Luis Doreste and Peter Evans."

Doreste was born in Las Palmas - Spain, in 1961. He won Olympic gold medal in 470 class in Los Angeles (1984) and Olympic gold medal in Flying Dutchman class in Barcelona (1992).

Evans was born in Devonport - New Zealand, in 1961. He has participated to 4 editions of America's Cup, winning in 2000 as Tactician onboard Team New Zealand.