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Rio de Janeiro, BrazilDubai, United Arab EmiratesAs SailGP looks ahead to the eighth event of Season 3, Denmark strategist Katja Salskov-Iversen opens up about the team’s Season 3 performance, the challenges of the strategist position and preparing for Singapore.
Spain cannot cope with the pressure to perform on the racecourse and is failing to live up to France’s example as the ‘barometer that all other teams are judged by’, according to SailGP’s podcast.
Spain driver Jordi Xammar has said the team’s first ever race win on the second day of the Dubai Sail Grand Prix shows shows ‘all the hard work’ is paying off.
Australia driver Tom Slingsby described Dubai’s neck-and-neck winner-takes-all Final as ‘the most intense’ Final he’s ‘ever raced’ after a contest of strategy and nerve played out on the tight racecourse of Port Rashid.
The United States SailGP Team’s Season 3 Grand Final berth is in peril after today’s inconsistent performance saw the team slide from second place overnight to finishing sixth overall at the final day of the Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas.
New Zealand driver Peter Burling has said ‘coarse language’ has ‘no place’ in the sport after Canada driver Phil Robertson picked up a penalty for pushing back against umpires on the first day of the Dubai Sail Grand Prix.
THE GREAT BRITAIN SAILGP TEAM HAVE A SCORCHER ON DAY ONE OF THE DUBAI SAIL GRAND PRIX
Currently in second place, U.S. SailGP Team’s Jimmy Spithill has no illusions: the real battle begins tomorrow at the Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas. “Tomorrow is a reset; our goal is to make the podium,” said the team CEO and driver.
immy Spithill is keenly aware of the critical juncture facing the United States SailGP Team as it prepares for its next challenge, this weekend’s SailGP Middle East debut, the Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas.
Switzerland co-driver Sébastien Schneiter will be taking the wheel this weekend, but will be joined by former Japan driver Nathan Outteridge sailing as strategist. This means Outteridge will be steering the Swiss F50 out of manoevures and calling out impending boat on boat situations across the racecourse.
Excitement is building for this weekend’s adrenaline-fueled Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas after the league’s nine-strong F50 fleet hit the water to begin practice racing.
SailGP fans can go behind-the-scenes of the league’s bumper third season and watch never-before-seen interviews with SailGP’s athletes in the latest episode of Rolex’s docuseries The Need For Speed.
SailGP, the world’s first climate positive sport and entertainment property, has released its inaugural Purpose & Impact Report to showcase the environmental and social successes and challenges it has faced in its second season.
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While the overall standings have Jimmy Spithill and the American team still in seventh place, their massive progress over the last two events has significantly consolidated the rankings, with the Americans narrowing their podium deficit to only seven points.
First ever event win for Quentin Delapierre’s France SailGP Team, defeating Jimmy Spithill’s U.S. team and Tom Slingsby’s Australia in final at Spain Sail Grand Prix presented by NEAR
New Zealand’s hopes of finishing on the podium for the fourth and final European event of the season were dashed today after an eighth and seventh place finish in qualifying fleet races cost them the points needed for a spot in the winner-takes-all final.
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Packed shorelines in Cádiz enjoy a gutsy performance from the home team in challenging conditions as Australia and France finish on top
The Spain Sail Grand Prix is off and running and the pressure’s on for New Zealand, who’s right in the mix, sitting fourth in the fleet after day one with 21 points total.
As SailGP enters the second half of its third season, a good result has never been more important for the nine national teams at the Spain Sail Grand Prix | Andalucía – Cádiz presented by NEAR to keep alive their hopes of making the Grand Final.
After the United States SailGP Team’s winning performance in France, the team now turns its focus to this weekend’s Spain Sail Grand Prix, aiming to ride the momentum and secure critical points in their quest to climb into the top half of the leaderboard.
New Zealand strategist Liv Mackay has said the ‘time is definitely coming’ for female drivers to step up and begin leading SailGP teams.
The fourth season of SailGP, the purpose-driven global racing championship, will deliver more events than ever as the league’s season-on-season expansion continues at impressive pace.
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