Draper, Bruni to lead Luna Rossa in Louis Vuitton Cup

Team Luna Rossa’s preparation and training for the 34th America’s Cup is still ongoing in Auckland, New Zealand and this week the team announced two key roles have been assigned on its AC72 afterguard.

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Chris Draper has been chosen as helmsman and Francesco Bruni will be the tactician.

Luna Rossa skipper Max Sirena declared: “In all America’s Cup challenges you reach the point when this decision needs to be made. During these months Chris Draper has proved to be the best candidate to cover this role and I am convinced that his partnership with Francesco Bruni as a tactician will be one of our strengths…”

At the upcoming America’s Cup World Series event in Naples, Italy in April, Draper will helm one of the Luna Rossa AC45s, with Bruni driving the other.