Sergio Carpentieri's Fatal Crash @ Travemünde 2007
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Sergio Carpentieri was a popular Italian boat racer. Born in Naples in 1956 he began his sports career in rowing competitions when he was only 10. A member of the famous Canottieri Napoli club, he won two Junior Italian Championships as helmsman and took part in the World Championship twice. In his teen years he also played waterpolo at a competitive level and won a Junior Italian title with his team.
At 18 he obtained the driving license and started racing in rallies. In 1970 he got in touch with the Gagliotta family who owned a famed shipyard in Naples. This connection led Carpentieri to his first powerboat inshore races. Later he moved to offshore.
In his career Carpentieri won four Italian Championships in the three, four and six liter classes, he was also the European champion three times in the 6 liter class and three times was third in the six liter World Championship class 2. In 1985 he obtained the victory in the Bastia-Viareggio-Bastia and he also won a Venezia-Montecarlo, paired to Michael Reagan, son of the former US President.
In 2006 Carpentieri finished fourth in the P1 Supersport World Championship in the FB Design Sunracer 38, the he decided to develop himself a boat for the next season.
Capentieri commissioned the project to engineer Angelo D'Ettore of Shipworks.it, who designed the 38 feet Carpenter, a hull powered by two Yanmar 480 HP engines.
The Team Carpenter entered this boat in the P1 Supersport World Championship in 2007; Sergio Carpentieri was the throttleman, team also included Vitaliano Vollero, Maurizio Molfini and Luca Nicolini. The boat made its debut in the Italian Grand Prix, in Naples, where the team obtained an eighth place in the second heat.
The next round of the championship was in Travemünde, near Lübeck, in Germany. Immediately after the start the Carpenter boat crashed straight into another Italian boat, the TNT 46 CORSA - Fainplast 64 of Metamarine Corse team. It is unclear how the accident happened, apparently the Fainplast had slowed down after suffering a mechanical failure resulting in a broken propeller. At that point the Carpenter boat was relatively far off, but inexplicably Carpentieri did not notice the obstacle and went straight into it. It is also supposed that Carpentieri had suffered a sudden stroke.
Sergio Carpentieri was transported to the hospital in Lübeck where he was pronouced dead, Luca Nicolini, who was Carpentieri's navigator in the race was taken to hospital suffering from shock and released shortly later. The three occupants of the other boat, Marco Pennesi, Luigi Bisceglia and Stefano Bonanno, were unharmed.
The first leg of the race was canceled after the accident, but the second leg took regularly place after the other competitors lauched flowers in the water to honor Carpentieri's memory.
R.I.P
At 18 he obtained the driving license and started racing in rallies. In 1970 he got in touch with the Gagliotta family who owned a famed shipyard in Naples. This connection led Carpentieri to his first powerboat inshore races. Later he moved to offshore.
In his career Carpentieri won four Italian Championships in the three, four and six liter classes, he was also the European champion three times in the 6 liter class and three times was third in the six liter World Championship class 2. In 1985 he obtained the victory in the Bastia-Viareggio-Bastia and he also won a Venezia-Montecarlo, paired to Michael Reagan, son of the former US President.
In 2006 Carpentieri finished fourth in the P1 Supersport World Championship in the FB Design Sunracer 38, the he decided to develop himself a boat for the next season.
Capentieri commissioned the project to engineer Angelo D'Ettore of Shipworks.it, who designed the 38 feet Carpenter, a hull powered by two Yanmar 480 HP engines.
The Team Carpenter entered this boat in the P1 Supersport World Championship in 2007; Sergio Carpentieri was the throttleman, team also included Vitaliano Vollero, Maurizio Molfini and Luca Nicolini. The boat made its debut in the Italian Grand Prix, in Naples, where the team obtained an eighth place in the second heat.
The next round of the championship was in Travemünde, near Lübeck, in Germany. Immediately after the start the Carpenter boat crashed straight into another Italian boat, the TNT 46 CORSA - Fainplast 64 of Metamarine Corse team. It is unclear how the accident happened, apparently the Fainplast had slowed down after suffering a mechanical failure resulting in a broken propeller. At that point the Carpenter boat was relatively far off, but inexplicably Carpentieri did not notice the obstacle and went straight into it. It is also supposed that Carpentieri had suffered a sudden stroke.
Sergio Carpentieri was transported to the hospital in Lübeck where he was pronouced dead, Luca Nicolini, who was Carpentieri's navigator in the race was taken to hospital suffering from shock and released shortly later. The three occupants of the other boat, Marco Pennesi, Luigi Bisceglia and Stefano Bonanno, were unharmed.
The first leg of the race was canceled after the accident, but the second leg took regularly place after the other competitors lauched flowers in the water to honor Carpentieri's memory.
R.I.P