Series · 2020 · Documentary
A challenge without comparison, the oldest trophy in the sporting world. 1000 days, 100 professionals, 1 obsession: winning the America's Cup and win for Italy.
1 season · 8 episodes

Episode 01
Chapter One
What does it take to win the America's Cup? You need a boat, a team, and a lot of willpower. It's this need to win that pushes a team to fight all the way to the end. The America's Cup is a challenge against oneself.

Episode 02
Chapter Two
How do you build a boat that flies? Luna Rossa is an amazing technological object. Not only is it a boat, it is an ongoing challenge in constant evolution. Sailing on her, with her, is a unique feeling, it's almost like flying.

Episode 03
Chapter Three
Designing a new class means experimenting, pushing limits to the maximum, until you reach the breaking point. But only when you know how far you can push can you understand from where to start again.

Episode 04
Chapter Four
In an America's Cup time is the most precious commodity, where you have almost no margin for error. Time is also your worst enemy; the team works relentlessly to optimize every minute it has to be back on the water as quickly as possible.

Episode 05
Chapter Five
At the Cagliari headquarters after the lockdown activities have resumed and training sessions revved up. Mastering a machine as complex as an AC75 requires many hours on the water and on the simulator to learn how to control the unpredictable.

Episode 06
Chapter Six
Everyone has a challenge to win. But only as a team can one achieve great accomplishments. A group of over one hundred people, by collaboration and sharing, turns into a close-knit and motivated team.

Episode 07
Chapter Seven
Details are crucial and make the difference. Infinitesimal grams are stripped off the hull to gain fractions of knot-speed on the water: races are won also thanks to these little numbers.

Episode 08
Chapter Eight
The team is getting ready to leave Cagliari and move to Auckland. A complex logistic operation which also includes the load of the hull on an Antonov aircraft. The countdown to the first race has begun.
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A challenge without comparison, the oldest trophy in the sporting world. 1000 days, 100 professionals, 1 obsession: winning the America's Cup and win for Italy.
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Challengers for Now has 1 season with 8 episodes in total.
Challengers for Now has ended and is no longer in production.
Challengers for Now first aired on June 9, 2020.
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