Luna Rossa betrayed by wind, American Magic reopens series

Red Moon, also fades second match point against American Magic

The second match point for Luna Rossa also fades. The blue boat, in fact, did not è manage to close the accounts with American Magic, which made the sixth race its own thanks to a superlative second half of the race.

After a bad start, Luna Rossa è managed to make up ground and break away, passing the first mark with a lead of over 40 seconds. From that moment, however, there è a sudden collapse in wind intensity that causes the blue boat to make a mistake, allowing American Magic to pull back into contact.

The boats then proceeded almost side by side until gate-3: and è here that it was all decided. Luna Rossa, which was supposed to give precedence to Patriot, completely missed the passage to the buoys, falling off the foils and not being able to get up again. American Magic, after a second stern side almost entirely in displacement mode, è managed to get back up in the air and win the race, getting the point of 2-4.

In the other semifinal, Ineos also missed its second match point against Alinghi, which è took the sixth race by force. also shortening the distance to 4-2.