Spain wins SailGP season 4!

Diego Botin, Florian Trittel, Joel Rodríguez, Nicole van der Velden, Joan Cardona, Bernardo Freitas and Steward Dodson. Seven athletes for the history of SailGP, the most spectacular international flying catamaran competition in the world. Spain completed a weekend in San Francisco for the history of Spanish sport: Wimbledon, Eurocopa and SailGP.

When some began to doubt, the Spain SailGP Team managed to turn it over to what happened yesterday, rejoining and getting into the Grand Final of SailGP season 4. Once there, and as was the case at the Bermuda Grand Prix, Spain made an excellent departure and sailed perfectly to impose on the favorites: New Zealand and Australia.

In the fourth manga of the Grand Prix, the Spain SailGP Team tried to delay France on the way out. Galos and Spaniards took part in a strategic battle that ended with France out of the fight for the championship. The Quentin Delapierre F50, which was already close to flying on the penultimate manga mark, broke the rudder by hitting Rockwool Denmark in the buoy before meta. The French did not see their rivals and were penalized in the championship classification, as well as being unable to compete in the last fleet race.

In that fifth manga, the Spanish team of SailGP limited itself to contemporary and secure its position in the Grand Final of the competition. The dream was closer... in the Grand Final, Spain led the test from the beginning thanks to a perfect exit. From there, only Australia came to threaten the victory of the national team at some point. However, the Spain SailGP Team was able to withstand the pressure to win the race and make history in SailGP.

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The Spanish team of SailGP will play it to the full or nothing tomorrow in the two fleet races prior to the Grand Final of the competition

The Spain SailGP Team will have to take over the weekend classification to keep France at bay and access the test decided by the winner of the SailGP 4 season. At the end of the first day of racing in San Francisco, Spain is seventh in the provisional classification, while the F50 of Quentin Delapierre occupies the first position.

In the first two sleeves of this Saturday, the team piloted by Diego Botin went far behind the rest of the fleet, although the Spaniards later demonstrated that they know how to handle themselves very well on the water, dating back respectively to the seventh and sixth position. In the third and last race of the day, the Spain SailGP Team won a valuable fifth place that allows our people to stay in the middle of the Grand Prix table. If France keeps up tomorrow and ends first in San Francisco, Spain would need to climb two posts - up to the fifth - to dream of the champion trophy. The two fleet races this Sunday will be decisive.

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The Spain SailGP Team, which takes five points to France, will defend its third position in the championship this weekend, to first enter the Grand Final of SailGP

The Spanish SailGP team is just a step away from making history in the world's most spectacular water competition. After an excellent season, in which Spain has left behind the results of previous campaigns, the Spain SailGP Team will defend this weekend its third position in the Grand Final held in San Francisco, which will be held this Sunday.

If this is done, Diego Botin, Florian Trittel, Joel Rodríguez, Nicole van der Velden, Joan Cardona, Bernardo Freitas and Stewart Dodson will fight to win the fourth season of SailGP. An achievement that has so far only been achieved by the Australian Tom Slingsby, three times SailGP winner with the Australia SailGP Team. However, the favorite to get the winning trophy of this edition is New Zealand Peter Burling and his New Zealand SailGP Team, which has been very consistent throughout the course.

The Spain SailGP Team takes five points to France in the ranking of the competition, while Canada and Rockwool Denmark have nine points less than ours. Canadians and Danes still have a minimum option to sneak into the Great Final of Sunday, although many circumstances would have to be given for that to happen. Thus, Spain and France will fight over the waters of San Francisco - with the Golden Gate and the Alcatraz prison as testists - to fight the race that the winner of season 4 will decide.

2024-07-11: Rolex TP52 World Championship starts Monday in Newport

The spectacular New York Yacht Club headquarters in Newport will host next week the battle for the 2024 edition of the Rolex TP52 World Championship; ten teams from seven countries will fight the world crown of TP52, including Thai Vayu, winner of the previous 52 Super Series event held last month in the same waters

The third race of the 2024 season of the 52 Super Series will put into play the world title of TP52 just as one month of the historic victory of Thai Vayu on the same stage. The surprising triumph of the Whitcraft family team demonstrated the equality between the fleet and disused the term "favorite" which seemed reserved for a small number of teams.

Three of those present in this edition have previously won the world crown, but nothing in the 2024 road book suggests that the Quantum Racing Powered by American Magic by Doug DeVos (champion in 2014, 2016, 2018 and 2022), the Platoon Aviation of Harm Müller-Spreer (2017, 2019 and 2023) or the Sled of Takashi Okura (2021) have an advantage over their rivals.

Platoon Aviation is the title advocate. The German team, which has on board the Spanish Joan Calafat, Víctor Mariño and Javier de la Plaza, is ready to leave behind the youth problems of their new ship at the beginning of the season and fight for their World Room. Last month, in the first of these two races in Newport, the champions of the 52 SUPER SERIES 2023 had just found a filon of potentially winning consistency when they hit something in the water and lost most of their rudder.

Vayu's recent victory shows how any team can ride a wave of regularity until victory. But the Thai squadron recognizes that its success will be difficult to repeat in the World Cup, where the level always rises a step and the crews are willing to force the risk-reward equation.

Among those who haunt an event victory is Tony Langley's Gladiator. The British team, led by the Argentine timonel and triple world champion of TP52 Guillermo Parada, remained only two points away from winning the XS 52 Super Series Newport RI Trophy after a considerable rebound.