NEW YORK —
New Zealand got here out victorious within the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix, the “world’s most fun racing on water,” on New York’s Hudson River Sunday.
The 2-day occasion was the penultimate race weekend of Mubadala SailGP earlier than the competitors’s fourth season concludes in San Francisco in July.
SailGP is a world crusing competitors wherein F50 foiling catamarans compete at 13 world locations for a season of grand prix races. A few of this season’s earlier locations included Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Sydney, Australia.
Every grand prix consists of separate “fleet races” earlier than the three highest-scoring groups compete in a last race to determine the champion.
On this picture offered by SailGP, Peter Burling, Co-CEO and driver of New Zealand SailGP Group, lifts the trophy because the workforce celebrates aboard their F50 catamaran after successful the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix in New York, June 23, 2024.
This SailGP season consists of 10 world-renowned groups: Australia, Canada, Emirates Nice Britain, France, Germany, New Zealand, Rockwool Denmark, Spain, Switzerland and the USA.
On Friday, Coutts introduced that SailGP Season 5 would function a Brazil workforce, the competitors’s first-ever workforce from South America.
“As a league, it is an superior place to be,” mentioned Phil Robertson, Canada’s driver. “You bought new groups and numerous curiosity from numerous international locations so to have Brazil on the beginning line may be very particular and funky to broaden to South America.”
Coming off its final race in Halifax, Canada, earlier this month, SailGP accomplished its twelfth cease world wide this season within the waters between New York and New Jersey wherein Canada positioned second and Emirates Nice Britain positioned third.
The final time SailGP raced in New York was its debut season in 2019.
“Wanting again on that inaugural occasion is like reflecting on a completely totally different stage in our journey,” Russell Coutts, CEO of SailGP, mentioned in a press convention Friday. “We had simply six nationwide groups in a five-event calendar and now nearing the tip of Season 4, we now have 10 groups with one of the best of one of the best athletes within the sport, competing in a 13-event calendar, broadcast in 212 territories world wide.”
Roughly 9,000 ticketed attendees gathered on Governors Island and on the water Saturday and Sunday to look at the races.
Taylor Canfield, driver for the U.S. workforce, spoke on the importance of crusing in entrance of house followers in New York Metropolis and in San Francisco subsequent month.
“It is so cool to be right here within the U.S. and these two iconic cities in New York and San Francisco,” Canfield mentioned in Friday’s press convention. “It will be wonderful circumstances and simply excellent climate. That is probably the most iconic metropolis on this planet and it will come alive so we’re enthusiastic about that.”
Wanting ahead to the ultimate races in San Francisco subsequent month, workforce Australia — reigning champion of SailGP seasons one, two and three — faces strain to take house one other win.
“It is thrilling to be on this place,” Tom Slingsby, driver for Australia, mentioned. “For certain there is a bit extra adrenaline and there is a bit extra on the road figuring out that each race actually counts in the meanwhile however I’ve full religion in my workforce. We have carried out beneath strain, we have received three a million greenback races.”
On July 14, one workforce will stroll away with a $2 million prize and the title of SailGP’s season 4 champion.
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