Spain improves in a day marked by unpredictable winds that ended with New Zealand's victory for the first time in its history

The Spanish team of SailGP managed to leave Plymouth with better sensations than in the first day, after a weekend marked by an unpredictable wind.

The Sunday races have been extremely complicated by the lack of wind that forced the pilots to maneuver and choose risky strategies. Jordi Xammar's ended up signing a seventh and sixth position that improve Saturday's results. The winners were the New Zealanders who knew how to handle the winds better than anyone to be crowned for the first time in the history of SailGP.

The F50 Victoria was again under the command of Jordi Xammar (pilot) along with Florian Tritell (wing trimmer), Diego Botin (flight controller), Jake Lilley (grinder) in race 4, Joan Cardona (tactical and grinder) and Paula Barceló (strategist), being in race 5 Joel Rodríguez the grinder with Cardona.

This was the general classification... 1 Australia 29 points, 2 Great Britain 22, 3 New Zealand 22, 4 Canada 22, 5 Denmark 20, 6 France 15, 7 United States 13, 8, 9 Switzerland 7.

2022-07-30: New Zealand dominates Plymouth in the British GP of SailGP

The first day of the race has been dominated by New Zealand, Canada and Australia, followed by a French team that has done a great performance

The Great Britain Sail Grand Prix - 124; Plymouth was starting today with changing winds that have conditioned the performance of all teams. The F50 Victoria has had a complicated day after some training in which it had shone in the second, second and third, and therefore being the best team of the nine.

A mistake on the first exit, followed by a small clash with the British team has marked the Spaniards facing the second day with the aim of improving results.

The intermittent wind rachas have been the protagonists of a day in which the New Zealanders, who have taken a step forward in the waters of Plymouth, have highlighted. It seems that the incorporation of Jo Aleh, a double Olympic medalist, has changed the dynamics of the ocean picture and it seems that this Grand Prix could be a turning point for them.

Spain began the day with very good sensations. In the training on Friday the team was the best, getting to podium in the three races and clearly highlight the rest, but a bad start in the first race today made things very complicated for the rooster, leaving them with few options. The Canadians of Phil Robertson have been able to overcome and react to a mistake that led them to take the last position in the second race after they were victorious in the first.

The revelation team has been the French, commanded by Quentin Delapierre, who has followed the good dynamics they showed in Chicago to sign two third positions and a fifth position worth gold for the final day to be held tomorrow.

Jordi Xammar has capitalized on the F50 Victoria along with Florian Trittel (wing timer), Diego Botin (flight controller), Jake Lilley (grinder), Joan Cardona (tactical and grinder) and Paula Barceló (strategist). The team wants to leave Plymouth with a good taste of mouth and is already working on the data thoroughly to detect today's failures and to be able to go out to give it all tomorrow and improve the results.

After the first day this is the classification: New Zealand (28 points), Australia (22), France (22), Canada (20), Great Britain (19), Denmark (18), Switzerland (13), United States (11), Spain (5)

2022-07-29: In Plymouth Spain wants to continue growing in SailGP

The Spanish team seeks to improve its results with respect to the first two major awards, with the extra motivation to premiere in British waters... last season, most F50 Victoria crew were preparing for the Tokyo Olympic Games and could not compete in Plymouth

SailGP, the flying catamaran competition, arrives in Europe and disembarks on the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix of Plymouth for its third season test... thus begins its European tour that will have three other stops in Denmark, France and Spain... the competition in the waters of the British Solent, this weekend.

After getting the seventh position in Chicago, the roosters arrive in Plymouth with the aim of continuing to consolidate and demonstrate that they can compete with the best in the world, in a discipline that wills for the skill of their athletes and in which they participate true legends of the candle.

Some of the crew members of F50 Victoria arrive at the Great Britain Sail Grand Prix of Plymouth after achieving great achievements in other competitions. The dupla formed by Diego Botín and Florian Trittel was made with gold at the 49th European Sailing Championship in the Danish town of Aarhus... Paula Barceló also participated in the female test along with Támara Echegoyen and both remained at the gates of the continental podium.

For his part, the team's grinder, Joel Rodríguez, once again hung a medal on his neck in some Mediterranean games in Algeria. He did so in the category of ILCA 7, getting a meritorious silver that improves the bronze he achieved in the same quote in its 2018 edition played in Tarragona.

Jordi Xammar will take over the F50 Victoria as a headline pilot, a role he started playing in the Grand Final of San Francisco... he will be accompanied by Florian Trittel (wing timer), Diego Botin (flight controller), Jake Lilley (grinder), Joan Cardona (tactical and grinder), Joel Rodríguez (grinder) and Paula Barceló (strategist).