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New Zealand SailGP Team in action on Race Day 2 Bermuda SailGP © Thomas Lovelock/SailGP The NZSailGP team improved to be in fifth position after the second and final day of SailGP Bermuda. They were in eighth place overall after the first day of racing which skipper, Peter Burling described as a "baptism of fire", given they were racing a new boat that clearly had control issues, having only had one day of practice sailing. The twice, and current America's Cup champions were made to look very ordinary on the opening day after being plagued by control system issues magnified by ...

SailGP season opener serves and frustrates in equal measure by Mark Jardine 26 Apr 11:07 BST 24-25 April 2021 Firstly, I take my hat off to the logistics team at SailGP that the event happened at all. With a Covid lockdown in Bermuda and the general difficulties in travel, getting eight international teams and the paraphernalia to a small island in the North Atlantic was no mean feat. If that wasn't complex enough, the production, commentary and umpiring team were in London. All the data had to be transmitted in near real-time to and fro between the two locations. This did of ...

New Zealand SailGP Team helmed by Peter Burling in Friday action during Bermuda SailGP © Bob Martin/SailGP The surprise of the first day of racing in SailGP Bermuda was the performance of the three America's Cup skippers and their star studded teams - all finishing outside the top three on the overnight leaderboard. In particular, few pundits would have expected the current America's Cup champions to be in a very safe eighth in the eight boat fleet. In Race 2 of the three sailed on Day 1, the three America's Cup skippers made up the last three places across the line. At the top ...

Stuff Sports 25 April, 2021, 1:30 pm New Zealand struggled to find their groove with the new F50 catamaran at their SailGP debut in Bermuda. Picture; STUFF SPORTS. New Zealand’s hurried SailGP preparations quickly caught up with them as they endured a horror start to the opening regatta in Bermuda, with skipper Peter Burling describing it as “a baptism of fire”. The New Zealand team, headed by Burling and Blair Tuke, and crewed by fellow America’s Cup winners, were at the wrong end of the three fleet races held amongst the eight teams on Saturday (NZT). New Zealand finished sixth, ei...

Great Britain stuns dominant Australia to be crowned Bermuda Sail Grand Prix champion by SailGP 25 Apr 19:51 UTC 24-25 April 2021 The Great Britain SailGP Team was crowned first event champion of SailGP Season 2 by winning the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess on a dramatic day on the Great Sound, beating Australia - who won four of five fleet races to enter the Final as strong favourites - by just four seconds. Ben Ainslie's team won just a single fleet race across the two-day event, but put in the perfect performance when it mattered to beat Tom Slingsby...