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SailGP: All you need to know about the 2021 season

Yachting World 0shares SailGP is now in its second season, with some of the best sailors in the world, sailing some of the fastest boats, going head-to-head in a global sailing series with a prize of $1m When Larry Ellison and Russell Coutts launched SailGP back in 2018, the plan was that, by 2021, the series would be heading into its third consecutive season and starting to build some serious momentum. As with the rest of the sporting world, however, COVID-19 has caused some significant disruption. The first season of SailGP racing showed the potential of the ambitious circuit, with spectacular racing at events like Cowes and Marseilles over the summer of 2019. But the second season barely got off the ground with just a single event completed – at Sydney in January 2020 – before the global pandemic and consequent lockdown forced organisers and teams to hit the pause button.

Jimmy Spithill pumped for new challenge

Jimmy Spithill is relishing a return to racing the foiling catamarans. Three weeks after his Italian-based team lost the America s Cup match on New Zealand s Hauraki Gulf, Australian-born Jimmy Spithill has arrived on Bermuda s Great Sound to lead the reconfigured American team in the SailGP global league. Spithill will make his SailGP debut when the pandemic-delayed second season begins April 24-25. He was hired late last year as CEO and helmsman, and has remade the crew of the team that finished last in the inaugural season in 2019. Spithill doesn t mind that he s barely had time to catch his breath from co-helming Luna Rossa in a 7-3 loss to Team New Zealand in the America s Cup last month.

Moroz, Perez, Campbell-James, and Presti complete U S SailGP Team lineup

(From Left to Right) Daniela Moroz, CJ Perez, Paul Campbell-James, Philippe Presti © U.S. SailGP Team The United States SailGP Team revealed its complete SailGP Season 2 lineup today with the announcement of athletes Daniela Moroz, CJ Perez, and Paul Campbell-James to its roster in addition to its acquisition of Philippe Presti as head coach. The announcement comes amidst the team s early arrival this month in Bermuda to take advantage of open practice ahead of the Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess, April 24-25. The additions bolster an already competitive lineup that also includes Rome Kirby, Andrew Campbell, Cooper Dressler, and Alex Sinclair all hand-picked by helm Jimmy Spithill to challenge SailGP s impressive talent pool for the championship s $1 million winner-take-all prize.

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