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Ferrari taking F1 technology to the waves with Soldini for new ocean racing sailing team

  • Luxury sports car maker to team up with Italian ocean racing yachtsman Giovanni Soldini
  • Red Bull’s top designer Adrian Newey teamed up a decade ago with British Olympian Ben Ainslie on an America’s Cup challenge

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Giovanni Soldini will work with Ferrari as the luxury sports car maker enters the world of ocean racing. Photo: Handout
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Luxury sports car maker Ferrari said is taking its technological know-how to the waves, teaming up with Italian ocean racing yachtsman Giovanni Soldini to enter the world of sailing.

An icon of motor racing with its uninterrupted presence in Formula One since the start of that world championship in 1950, Ferrari last year also returned to the Hypercar top flight of endurance racing and Le Mans.

Ferrari chairman John Elkann said the new project would expand Ferrari’s “racing soul”.

“In addition to competing on tracks all over the world, Ferrari is now embarking on this new venture to enhance its technological know how,” the company said in a statement.

Ferrari won its last F1 drivers’ championship in 2007 and constructors’ title in 2008.

Land Rover BAR skipper by Ben Ainslie prepares for the race with Emirates Team New Zealand in the 35th America’s Cup Challenger play-offs on Bermuda’s Great Sound. Photo: AFP
Land Rover BAR skipper by Ben Ainslie prepares for the race with Emirates Team New Zealand in the 35th America’s Cup Challenger play-offs on Bermuda’s Great Sound. Photo: AFP

Formula One teams have had close ties with yachting over the years with Red Bull’s top designer Adrian Newey teaming up a decade ago with British Olympian Ben Ainslie on his America’s Cup challenge with the Land Rover BAR team.

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