Peralluman and Lamborghini
The first winner was already a laboratory: the G.B. Pedrini of Darai, Carrain, Rossi and Vianello, a Peralluman-hulled CUV with Lamborghini engines, averaging 55.9 knots around Italy.
Technology · Venezia-Montecarlo
The race as a laboratory
1,500 miles of open sea are the harshest test bench there is for hulls, engines and onboard systems. The Venezia-Montecarlo has been measuring them all since 1990.
- 1,500+ nm
- Venice → Monte Carlo
- 52.3 kn
- non-stop record average
- 32
- host ports
- IX
- editions since 1990
02 · The tracking
Every hull, second by second
Every competitor carries a waterproof tracker with an external antenna and a magnetic mount, powered by a battery that lasts several days at sea. It streams each position to race control second by second: course, speed and gaps for the whole fleet, over the entire voyage.
The same feed drives the public map: anyone watching from home or from the dock follows every boat in real time, with no sign-up. And the onboard SOS button turns tracking into a safety net: a geolocated alert reaches race control the instant it is needed.
- 1 s
- position frequency to race control
- SOS
- the emergency button aboard every hull
- 0 login
- the live map is public, open to everyone
03 · R&D · Shipyards and engines
The longest sea trial in the world
For thirty-five years, shipyards and engine builders have asked the Venezia-Montecarlo for what no test tank can give: 1,500 miles of real sea, no allowances.
The Seatek turbodiesels
Fabio Buzzi’s turbodiesels made the marathon their test bench: four Seateks on the 1996 Admiral Casino Tivoli, then the MASE-FB Design win of 1998 after 1,588 miles. At the 2023 Prologue a Seatek was still pushing Fainplast’s Metamarine TNT 48.
The Ognitempo record
FB 60’ Ognitempo, two 1,600 hp MTUs: Monte Carlo → Venice via Roccella Jonica in 22:05:42, at a 52.3-knot average. The time to beat carries the signatures of Fabio Buzzi and Mario Invernizzi.
The direction
Efficiency, cleaner propulsion, lighter materials: measured over distance.
This is not a programme already written: it is the course the race wants to set for shipyards and engine builders. Fuel figures verified over 1,500 miles, low-impact propulsion proven by open sea, hulls and materials judged by days of navigation, not by a lap around a buoy.