{"id":80058,"date":"2024-11-26T13:06:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/?p=80058"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:41:33","slug":"sailgps-black-foils-start-season-5-with-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/racing\/sailgps-black-foils-start-season-5-with-a-win\/","title":{"rendered":"SailGP’s Black Foils Start Season 5 With a Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n New Zealand SailGP Team helmed by Peter Burling in action on Race Day 2 of the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix.<\/span>\n Felix Diemer\/SailGP<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

Picking up where they left off in January, Peter Burling\u2019s Black Foils have claimed their third consecutive win in the UAE, soaring ahead of the Emirates Great Britain and US SailGP Team on the pristine waters of Port Mina Rashid. The Black Foils are back-to-back-winners of the Rolex SailGP<\/a> Championship\u2019s season-opening event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New Zealand driver Peter Burling said, \u201cAwesome play from the group \u2013 I mean as a new team to get to the final this week \u2013 it\u2019s one of the hardest things in this light air. And we really pulled it out this season and got a great start and hit it right at mark one. I made a bad choice making it a bit more complicated \u2013 taking a right turn \u2013 which put us right back in the pack but then it was clean, and it was good to race from there to take a win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following a day of technical, light-air racing on Saturday, the 11-strong Rolex SailGP Championship fleet enjoyed breezy, foiling conditions \u2013 providing a spectacle for fans watching along the shoreline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finishing in third was an ecstatic US SailGP Team Driver Taylor Canfield, who celebrated, \u201cAny event going on the podium is incredible, so it\u2019s awesome to see how all the hard work we have put in is paying off. It\u2019s early stages, and we have a lot to build on \u2013- but the team are working hard and made a huge jump here overnight. And everyone dug in deep and found a way to get better for today. That\u2019s the goal and it just shows how driven, and that everyone\u2019s got that fight in them \u2013 so yeah we are pumped.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n USA SailGP Team helmed by Taylor Canfield and Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team helmed by Dylan Fletcher in action on Race Day 2 of the Emirates Dubai.<\/span>\n Ricardo Pinto\/SailGP<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

The Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix, presented by P&O Marinas marked a welcome shift for the all-American crew, who have not made it on the podium since the last time they raced in the Middle East. The team delivered a consistent performance on both days of racing, earning the critical points needed to clinch a spot in the podium final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Celebrating an impressive second place podium finish at his first event since Season 1, Emirates GBR Driver Dylan Fletcher proved he\u2019s more than capable of competing against the best athletes in the sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heading into the fifth and final fleet race of the weekend, a tight battle for third was poised between a handful of teams, including Emirates GBR and reigning Rolex SailGP Champions Spain. But it wasn\u2019t to be for Los Gallos, who couldn\u2019t manage to stay in front of Fletcher and missed out on the three-boat final. Despite leading the fleet heading into day two, the Flying Roo of the Australian SailGP team also missed out after finishing last in race five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of SailGP\u2019s two new nations in the 2025 Season, Red Bull Italy, missed out on event points whilst fellow debut Mubadala Brazil added their first point to the Rolex SailGP Championship standings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team helmed by Martine Grael made its first SailGP appearance and beat out the fleet’s other new team–Red Bull Italy–to secure its first season point.<\/span>\n Felix Diemer\/SailGP<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t\t <\/figcaption>\n <\/section>\n\t\t\n\n\n

Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team Driver Martine Grael said, \u201cThere were a lot of challenges. Some during the first day \u2013 our first time on the big wings. I think it’s all going well and I’m very happy with our crew. We’ve been trying to improve a lot in the last few days, so it’s been a steep learning curve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The league now heads down under in January, with the Rolex SailGP\u2019s first event of the new year, the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Auckland (January 18-19, 2025). The event will be the league\u2019s long-awaited debut in the city. \u201cWe\u2019re super excited to get home,\u201d Burling said. \u201cThe buzz in town is already growing. The renders of the grandstand, which is just about to get built, is amazing. So, for any Kiwis who have not bought tickets yet, it\u2019s going to be an amazing weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMIRATES DUBAI SAIL GRAND PRIX, PRESENTED BY P&O MARINAS DAY TWO STANDINGS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
1.<\/td>New Zealand<\/td>47 points<\/td><\/tr>
2.<\/td>Emirates Great Britain<\/td>43 points<\/td><\/tr>
3.<\/td>United States<\/td>40 points<\/td><\/tr>
4.<\/td>Spain<\/td>32 points<\/td><\/tr>
5.<\/td>Australia<\/td>32 points<\/td><\/tr>
6.<\/td>Canada<\/td>26 points<\/td><\/tr>
7.<\/td>ROCKWOOL Denmark<\/td>23 points<\/td><\/tr>
8.<\/td>Germany<\/td>22 points<\/td><\/tr>
9.<\/td>Switzerland<\/td>22 points<\/td><\/tr>
10.<\/td>Mubadala Brazil<\/td>10 points<\/td><\/tr>
11.<\/td>Red Bull Italy<\/td>5 points<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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EMIRATES DUBAI SAIL GRAND PRIX, PRESENTED BY P&O MARINAS LEADERBOARD<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
1.<\/td>New Zealand<\/td>10 points<\/td><\/tr>
2.<\/td>Emirates Great Britain<\/td>9 points<\/td><\/tr>
3.<\/td>United States<\/td>8 points<\/td><\/tr>
4.<\/td>Spain<\/td>7 points<\/td><\/tr>
5.<\/td>Australia<\/td>6 points<\/td><\/tr>
6.<\/td>Canada<\/td>5 points<\/td><\/tr>
7.<\/td>France<\/td>5 points<\/td><\/tr>
8.<\/td>ROCKWOOL Denmark<\/td>4 points<\/td><\/tr>
9.<\/td>Germany<\/td>3 points<\/td><\/tr>
10.<\/td>Switzerland<\/td>2 points<\/td><\/tr>
11.<\/td>Mubadala Brazil<\/td>1 point<\/td><\/tr>
12.<\/td>Red Bull Italy<\/td>0 points<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Zealand’s Black Foils bagged their first SailGP event win in Dubai while the US SailGP team rose to the podium and a shot in the three-boat final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":80080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"BS_author_type":"BS_author_is_guest","BS_guest_author_name":"SailGP Media","BS_guest_author_url":"","hydra_display_date":"","hydra_display_updated":false,"_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":"","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","_yoast_wpseo_title":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","arc_story_id":"","arc_website_url":"","custom_permalink":"","arc_subtype":"","arc_exclude_from_feeds":false,"sponsored":false,"sponsored_label":"Sponsored Content","sponsored_display_label":false,"sponsored_image":false,"post_right_rail":true,"post_right_rail_ad_1":true,"post_right_rail_ad_2":true,"post_right_rail_ad_3":false,"post_right_rail_ad_4":false,"post_right_rail_recirc":true,"fixed_anchor_ad":true,"post_top_ad":true,"post_off_ramp":true,"post_taboola":false,"labels":true,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","ad_targeting":"","ad_settings_ads_on_this_page":true,"ad_settings_automatic_ad_injection_into_the_content":true,"sponsored_url":"","social_share":true,"alternate_title_newsletter":"","alternate_content_newsletter":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[177,178,1446,2969],"class_list":["post-80058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sailboat-racing","tag-sailgp","tag-sailgp-season-5"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sailingworld.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}