As a sample of their incredible potential, the F50 have already overcome the 50 knots of speed barrier.

The second season of SailGP begins in Bermuda next Saturday... the circuit of the spectacular F50 flying catamarans is a platform to explore the limits of technological innovation and human capacity, values that Rolex shares in its constant search for excellence, and that has led Swiss watchmaker to sponsor the competition since its birth in 2019. Spain will have double representation, with a national team among the eight that make up the fleet and a headquarters among the eight that make up the Circuit.

SailGP brings together sports talent and technology in a spectacular format. A combination that demonstrated its undeniable appeal in the debut of the circuit in 2019 and that began its second season on April 24 and 25 in Bermuda waters. Eight national teams have confirmed their participation on behalf of Australia, Denmark, France, England, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and Spain. They will compete in a calendar of eight races in so many other countries over the next eleven months.

Each event consists of two days of competition, with a series of intense fleet races to determine the matching of a final sleeve for the absolute victory in match-race format. The F50, 15-meter-long catamarans and 2.4 tons of displacement with rigid wing and foils, are ships designed to explore the limits of navigation physics. Its monotype class condition guarantees equality between ships, which this year release a modular version of the impressive rigid candle, a modification that will allow a better adaptation of the shape of the candle to the intensity of the wind and extend the range of conditions suitable for competition.

The Spanish team of SailGP is presented in Bermuda with an authentic national selection of young talents led by coach Xabi Fernández, double Olympic medalist and Rolex World Sailor of the Year 2011. The crew of the F50 Spain is made up of Florian Trittel, Diego Botín, Mateu Barber, Lucas Trittel, Antonio Cuervas- Mons, Tara Pacheco, Andrea Emone and New Zealand Phil Robertson, who replaces the reed to Jordi Xammar while the Catalan prepares his Olympic appointment from Tokyo 2021 in category 470.

After the start of hostilities in Bermuda, SailGP will visit Italy (Taranto, 5 and 6 June), England (Plymouth, 17 and 18 July), Denmark (Aarhus, 20 and 21 August), France (Saint- Tropez, 11 and 12 September), Spain (Cadiz, 9 and 10 October) and New Zealand (Christchurch, 29 and 30 January 2022), before travelling to the United States, where the grand finale of this second season will be held in the spring of 2022 (San Francisco, 26 and 27 March).