After the first event of the season, Spain is fourth in the general classification

Only one point separated Spain from starting the Rolex SailGP 2025 Season Championship fighting for its first Grand Prix. The Spanish finished the weekend tied with the third, United States. However, the best American classification in the last race of the day left ours out of the final.

In today's two fleet races, the Spanish Rolex SailGP team took the size and made two excellent exits. In the first of the two sleeves, Los Gallos led the test to practically the finish line. A bad maneuver in the last buoy deprived Diego Botín and company of the first place: New Zealand, which was more successful, advanced Spain in the last line. Thus, Spain was facing the fifth race with the aim of overcoming Emirates GBR, which closed the podium with one point more than the Spanish. Behind them was Taylor Canfield's United States.

Spain did not fail at the exit and was second, followed very closely by British and American. The final was very close. Unfortunately, the dream did not last long: both Emirates GBR and the United States SailGP Team brought out their best maneuvers, moving ahead of those of Botín in the next compasses, and retaining their position until the end of the manga.

The victory of the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P & O Marinas was for Peter Burling's New Zealand, which claimed his favorite status. Emirates GBR was second and the United States third. After this first Grand Prix of the season, Spain is fourth in the general ranking. The second Grand Prix of the Rolex SailGP 2025 Season Championship will be the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix, 124; Auckland, which will be held on 18 and 19 January 2025 in Waitematā Harbour.

2024-11-23: Rolex Sail GP: Spain is two points away from the final

The Spanish team of SailGP closed the first day of the race with a third place that will allow you to fight tomorrow for the first three of the weekend

As last season, the low wind was the protagonist of the opening day of the Rolex SailGP 2025 Season Championship. In a scenario where the reading of the race field is vital, Los Gallos were able to go from less to more to stay alive in the fight for the Grand Prix.

In the three sleeves of the day, the Spain SailGP Team followed the same strategy at the exit, looking for the one to get to the first buoy as soon as possible. In the first, the Spaniards were involved in a bottling that relegated the F50 piloted by Diego Botín to the last position. The Spanish team of SailGP managed to reassemble later to end in eighth position. In the next manga Spain was sixth, forcing itself to get a good result in the last manga of the day.

In that third race, the strategy worked almost perfectly and only Tom Slingsby's Australia and Dylan Fletcher's Great Britain crossed the finish line ahead of ours. At the end of the first day of the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P & O Marinas, the editoless are septic in the classification of the event with 16 points, only two less than the Emirates GBR, which closes the podium with 18.

2024-11-22: Rolex Sail GP: Spain begins in Dubai to defend its title as champion

Spain returns to the competition with a consolidated team that has a license to dream of repeating the feat of the past course

Four months after the historic triumph of the Spanish crew in the waters of San Francisco, the world's most exciting water competition returns this weekend in Dubai. It will be the largest season of SailGP to date, with up to 12 nations fighting for the triumph in the Grand Final of Abu Dhabi, in late November 2025.

The competition revealed yesterday the alignment of the Red Bull Italy SailGP Team, which will feature Ruggero Tita as a team pilot. The recent gold winner in Paris 2024 will be one of the new faces of this championship start, along with the Brazilian Martine Grael, a double Olympic medalist and first female pilot in the history of the league.

Italy and Brazil therefore join the list of opponents of the Spanish team for this season, in which New Zealand and Australia are presumably going as favorites. Presumably, because the Botto people already demonstrated the last campaign that everything can happen in SailGP. The Spain SailGP Team will start in Dubai defending its Rolex SailGP Championship title, with a single change in its configuration: the march of New Zealand Stewart Dodson.