SailGP Season 2 will kick off in April 2021 featuring an expanded calendar through to March 2022. The opening events are set for the island of Bermuda and the southern Italian city of Taranto. From there the league will stay in Europe with events in Great Britain in mid-July, Denmark in August and France in September. The final event of the European leg is set for Cádiz in Andalusia, Spain, in October.
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We’ve just recovered from the excitement of the America’s Cup, and now we have more thrilling grand prix racing to look forward to. SailGP Season 2 kicks off on 25th April with an expanded calendar, which crosses the globe.
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The SailGP F50’s have proven to reach ridiculous speeds – in excess of 50knots. Sailing these boats is a fine balance between crew work, great helming and understanding the capabilities of these boats. Tom Slingsby explains what NOT to do, and the potential consequences of wiping out.
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This month double Olympic gold medalist Shirley Robertson goes back to her sailing roots as she talks about success and failure with six very different multiple Olympic medallists. The interviews span fifty-two years of Olympic competition, feature a total of twelve medals, seven gold, and include some of the biggest names in Olympic Sailing.
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The tech-driven SailGP fleet has been sharing the massive amounts of data captured each time the boats are on the water, and we are all for it.
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Angela Cox from Sunday Night on 7News went where no woman has ever gone before as she joins the SailGP teams flying around Sydney harbour at 50knts.
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Will the SailGP rival the America’s Cup as was hoped? The first ever edition of the SailGP was held in Sydney Harbour early in Feb. The GP is a spin off of the 35th America’s Cup, and is sailed on updated F50’s. The changes to the F50’s mainly include a revised hydraulics system making them the worlds world’s most technologically advanced catamarans. There’s no doubt that these ’50’s are fast, but is it a case of we’ve seen this before?