So watch out. Ambrogio Beccaria and Alberto Riva! Among the band of Italian 'top guns' who are taking part in the MED MAX - Occitanie-Saïdia Resorts, we'd like to introduce you to the most dangerous. On the one hand, Ambrogio Beccaria: the first Italian to win the MiniTransat in 2019 before building one of the most prestigious palmares in Class40. Just look at his performances since he launched his 'Alla Grande Pirelli' in 2022. Second in the Route du Rhum 2022, then two 2nd places with a crew in the Caribbean, and another, back from the West Indies, again with a crew, in the Atlantic Challenge. Then pim-pam-poum! Victory in the Lamotte 40'Malouine. But above all, two transatlantic races in the bag, with the Jacques-Vabre (double-handed) and then the Transat CIC, a legendary headwind race in the North Atlantic.

On the other side, Alberto Riva, who also has a huge list of achievements to his name. And who should have been Ambrogio Beccaria's main rival with his 'Acrobatica' in the MedMAX, had it not been for a collision with a boat in the Québec Saint-Malo, which resulted in the wreck of his recently built Class40. It's a shame for the man who set the stage on fire in the last Transat Niji40 by setting the record for the distance covered in 24 hours in a Class40 with 433.3 miles, at an impressive average speed of 18 knots, with a few peaks of over 25 knots in the middle of the Atlantic! Which just goes to show that the man from Milan, who has just come back from helping another Italian, Alberto Bona, in the Channel Race, is going to have his fangs in his mouth! It remains to be seen how these two talented monsters will get on.