SailGP: Spain without another to start its recovery in Auckland

SailGP: Spain without another to start its recovery in Auckland

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The Spain SailGP Team will compete this weekend at the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix after completing the repair of the F50 Victoria... Spain has the obligation to start adding points in the classification and cut distances with the main favorites to the title

The wait has become long, the unbearable uncertainty, the Spaniards will be on the line of departure of the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix. This was confirmed by Florian Trritel, wing timer of the team, just a week ago. A month after the incident that deprived us of starting the 2026 Rolex SailGP Championship season, and thanks to the excellent work of the Los Gallos Spain SailGP Team and the SailGP technical team, Spain will begin the reconquest in Auckland.

It will be the second event of the championship, again in ocean waters, where the conditions to compete will be very demanding, with a forecast of strong wind and even rain. On that stage, Peter Burling's New Zealand home, the Spanish team has the obligation to start adding points to the classification and to cut off the main favorites to the title: Dylan Fletcher's Great Britain - the current Rolex SailGP Championship champion and winner of the Perth Grand Prix, Tom Slingsby's Australia, Quentin de Delapierre France and a last-minute guest, Sweden (Artemis SailGP Team), who was about to get into his first final in the inaugural championship event