“It’s Daunting!” Tom Slingsby reveals Australian challenge | Inside Americas Cup Talks

“It’s Daunting!” Tom Slingsby reveals Australian challenge | Inside Americas Cup Talks

Australia is back to challenge for the America's Cup and sailing superstar Tom Slingsby is heading up Team Australia's sailing team. In this exclusive interview Tom tells Niall Myant-Best about the team's startup mentality, growing up on Australian America's Cup history and why experience might just beat youth when it comes to his crew selection.

Something to Prove in Sardinia PR1 | Inside America's Cup Talks

The first shots of the America's Cup campaign are about to be fired. Niall Myant-Best and Magnus Wheatley break down everything you need to know ahead of PR1 in Cagliari, Sardinia - the first time AC38 challengers will race against each other on the water. Eight boats. Five teams. And a format that puts youth and women sailors on the start line alongside the world's best. Magnus has the inside info - who's ready, who's hiding something, and who absolutely cannot afford a bad week.Pete Burling at Luna Rossa vs Emirates Team New Zealand. Marco Gradoni, the prodigy who told Magnus "I know" when asked if he'd win the America's Cup. And the female sailors looking to make a splash.Reputations will be made and broken here. The Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta Sardinia takes place from May 21st to 24th, the first event on the Road to Naples 2027.

Are France the Underdogs?

La Roche-Posay Racing Team call themselves underdogs. But is that that really true when you look at what they've built in Lorient? In our latest exclusive access we examine the French Challenger's strategies for wining the Auld Mug and look back at over 50 years of French America's Cup history.France has produced many sailing champions but never an America's Cup winner. Niall Myant-Best goes inside the French challenger's base in Lorient to find out whether that's about to change.Featuring skipper Quentin Delapierre, sailor Amélie Grassi, Technical Director Antoine Carraz, Sporting Director Philippe Presti, and CEO Stéphan Kandler.Join us for The Louis Vuitton 38th America’s Cup Preliminary Regatta Sardinia, May 21st to 24th. The first Preliminary Regatta on the Road to Naples 2027.Follow Inside America's Cup for more episodes on the road to Naples 2027.

Luna Rossa’s Final Piece

Unprecedented access to Luna Rossa's team base in Cagliari, Sardinia. Luna Rossa have spent nearly three decades and hundreds of millions trying to win the America's Cup. They never stopped between campaigns and have now signed superstar helmsman Peter Burling from their biggest rivals. We go inside the base of the team that has been trying longest and hardest to ask if they finally have everything to win. Featuring: Peter Burling, Max Sirena, Margherita Porro, Marco Gradoni, Gilberto Nobili, Horacio Carabelli.

Burling to Luna Rossa, Alinghi Back, No Cyclors : The 2027 Teams Assessed | Bonus Content

Niall Myant-Best is joined in the studio by America's Cup historian and journalist Magnus Wheatley and round-the-world yachtswoman and former Youth and Women's America's Cup co-ordinator Abby Ehler - and together they take a hard look at the five teams challenging for the Cup in 2027. With the first preliminary regatta in Cagliari now fast approaching, the race off the water is already at full speed. Pete Burling has defected to Luna Rossa. Alinghi are back, but saying nothing. GB1 are rebuilding under restructured leadership. And with the AC75 rule book rewritten - no cyclors, battery power, and the same hull - the technical battle is only just beginning. Which teams are genuinely ready? Which are building for the future? And what are they saying versus what they are actually doing? Guests: Magnus Wheatley, Abby Ehler, Bruno Dubois (K-Challenge), Ian Walker (GB1), Nathan Outteridge and Jo Aleh (Emirates Team New Zealand). Follow this podcast for more episodes on the road to Naples 2027.