Day: December 18, 2021

Season 2 – Sydney, Australia Race – December 17 – December 28, 2021 … 12/18/2021-Nathan Outteridge, CEO & driver of Japan SailGP Team, looks at the damage to the F50 catamaran caused by a collision with Great Britain SailGP Team, on Race Day 2. Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG. Photo by Patrick Hamilton for SailGP.er photo: Japan SailGP Team Technical Crew work on their F50 catamaran on Race Day 2. Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG 12/18/2021. Photo by Patrick Hamilton for SailGP. … Photos by Patrick Hamilton, Adam Warner, Phil Hillyard, David Gray, Bob Martin, Beau […]

Sydney, Australia – 12/18/2021 – The Australia SailGP Team booked their place in the Season 2 winner-takes-all Grand Final with one event to spare by winning their home Sail Grand Prix in Sydney on Saturday. Tom Slingsby’s team delivered under the pressure, beating the United States and Spain in the three-team Final on Sydney Harbour to claim their fourth event victory of the season, moving onto 55 points to guarantee a spot in the all-important Championship decider in San Francisco. The USA, Driven by Jimmy Spithill, also qualified for March’s Grand Final on their home waters with their second-place finish, while Japan – […]

Sydney, Australia – 12/18/2021 – The New Zealand SailGP Team staged a strong comeback on day two of the Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG but it wasn’t enough to clinch a place in the final podium race as it finished fifth overall in Sydney today. Needing a couple of big performances after a disappointing opening day on Sydney Harbour which saw New Zealand finish fifth, eighth and fifth, the Kiwis came flying out of the blocks in gusts reaching 42 km/h to record a second and third-place finish in today’s two fleet races. Higher winds saw all F50s […]

Syndey, Australia – 12/18/2021 – The Japan SailGP Team took part in Race Day 2 of the Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney Presented by KPMG, despite being involved in a huge collision on Race Day 1 which caused serious damage to its F50. Nathan Outteridge’s team sailed in a hybrid boat comprising parts of both Japan’s F50 and also Great Britain’s – who were at fault for the collision in the pre-start of fleet race three on Friday. Ben Ainslie, the British Driver, offered his team’s boat to Japan immediately after the end of racing on Day 1, accepting […]