Gladiator is a well-known British flagged team owned and backed by successful, popular English businessman Tony Langley. They are part of the Quantum Sails stable and back in 2023 recruited the hugely successful Argentinian ace Guillermo Parada as tactician He led the successful Azzurra program to four 52 SUPER SERIES titles and he brought with him Azzurra’s Italian navigator Bruno Zirilli.
And the evolution went well, Gladiator finished third in Saint Tropez, in Mahon and at the Rolex TP52 World Championship in Barcelona. And they missed third overall for the season by just four points. Until 2023 their best season was probably 2017 when they finished the last regatta of the season in second place on countback – still their high water mark as a regatta finish. For 2024 they have a new boat in the former Alegre and have already finished third in Newport.
Langley is passionate about the TP52 and at one point ran three at the same time mixing up his team’s programme racing in the USA and at home in England at key, personal favourite events.
Tony loves his sport and must rank as the hardest working owner-drivers in this business!
