The German team is the last addition to the world class competition that returns for Season 4 on June 16 and 17

Two of the leading stars of the German sport... the four-time world champion of F1 Sebastian Vettel and the two-time Olympic bronze sailing Erik Heil... announce today, along with Thomas Riedel, team owner, the German SailGP Team. Germany will be the last nation to join the global racing league driven by a purpose that will start its fourth season on June 16 and 17 with the Rolex United States Sail Grand Prix in Navy Pier, Chicago.

The team brings together the best of German business and sport. Inspired by the entrepreneur and investor Riedel - president of the communication company that bears his name - along with Vettel, also investor, both will take an active role in the direction and performance of the team. Heil, who won the Olympic bronze at both the 2016 Rio Olympic Games and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will fly the innovative German hydrofoying F50, one of the fastest ships in the world, able to reach speeds close to 100 km / h.

The new Germany SailGP Team has been unveiled during the Spobis 2023 in Düsseldorf, where the team and its objectives for the next season have been presented. SailGP co-founder and CEO Sir Russell Coutts gave a yellow F50 flyer to Heil and Vettel as a symbolic welcome to SailGP.

The passion for high-performance sports, interest in the most important technology and shared belief in the approach to sustainability is what has led Riedel, Vettel and Heil to join in this joint campaign. All three are attracted to SailGP's high-tech competition and all three value the sustainable concept of the championship.

Riedel is no stranger to SailGP, as its communications company provides all wireless communication and TV production infrastructure for the league as a technology provider. The wireless network connects, among others, the participants, state-of-the-art catamarans, support boats, judges' ships and cameras, as well as drones and helicopters for air recording.