The Spaniards were not able to improve yesterday's performance and are already looking at the Sassnitz Grand Prix (August 16 and 17)... Peter Burling's New Zealand avoided local victory and now the general

The Spain SailGP Team faced the second day in British waters with the need to make three excellent sleeves to get into the final. In the first of the three sleeves, the team capitalized by Diego Botín again rolled the podium after a good departure, but had to finally settle for a fifth place. A result that made it even more complicated, since all the direct Spanish rivals, with the exception of Switzerland, were ahead of the F50 Victoria.

The final victory at the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix was for Peter Burling's New Zealand, which avoided local triumph in a final full of leader changes, and in which Switzerland - the surprise of this GP - could not end... due to another technical failure. The kiwis now lead the Rolex SailGP Championship with 54 points, two more than Australia (52) and three more than Spain (51). Emirates GBR is fourth with 50. Next stop, Sassnitz, Germany, 16 and 17 August.

2025-07-19: Grand Prix of Portsmouth SailGP... Spain to remount in the final act

The Spain SailGP Team roared the podium in two of the four races of the day, but a sixth and, above all, a tenth place on the last sleeve of the day ended up relegating it to half of the GP's provisional table.

The fourth race on Saturday began, and the Spaniards were leaving with everything, slightly behind Australia and Italy. Spain needed a very good result to rejoin the Grand Prix and approach the final posts.

After the first buoy, the team piloted by Diego Botín got rid of the Italians and squeezed the aussies without fear, when they were barely a hundred meters away from the first door. But Tom Slingsby, old dog, didn't blink. The one in Sydney did not give in to the Spanish push: he waited until the last second to force ours to an impossible maneuver that condemned the Spain SailGP Team. The F50 Victoria lost speed and, one by one, the rest of the countries began to advance to Spain, which finished the sleeve in tenth place. That's where Diego Botín and company came to an end. It's a shame.

Until then, the Spanish team of SailGP had achieved two meritorious quarters and a sixth after a very bad departure, after which those of Botín, again demonstrated that they can reassemble and compete in adverse situations like no other team.

Spain ended the first day in Portsmouth in the sixth position of the provisional general with 20 points, six below Australia and New Zealand (26). So tomorrow we will have to look for the epic and hope that the front will fail to get into the end of this Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix.

2025-07-18: SailGP: Spain defends its leadership in the Portsmouth Grand Prix

The Spain SailGP Team reaches the British city as leader of the Rolex SailGP Championship (46 points), ahead of Australia (45) and New Zealand (44)
With the arrival of the Emirates Great Britain SailGP, the competition begins its European tour, with Cadiz as the last stop (4 and 5 October) before the Grand Final of Abu Dhabi (28 and 29 November)... the canary Andrés Barrio (25 years old), grinder of the Spanish team of SailGP, will debut this weekend

The British city of Portsmouth will host this weekend the Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix, the seventh stop of the international flying catamaran championship, the most exciting competition on water in the world.

It will be the beginning of the European tour of the Rolex SailGP Championship, which will end on 4 and 5 October in Cadiz, towards the Grand Final of Abu Dhabi (28 and 29 November). There's no better final colophone. Nor can there be a better starting point for the Spanish team; in this European journey: the Spain SailGP Team leads the general ranking of this 2025 season ahead of Australia and New Zealand, always favorites. The team piloted by Diego Botín comes from having won two consecutive victories in San Francisco and New York, and will pursue in Portsmouth the dream of a third. There are no two without three, or so they say.