SailGP’s fifth season culminated in style on Sunday in Abu Dhabi with Dylan Fletcher’s British Emirates GBR crew taking the two-million-dollar prize pot after getting the better of Tom Slingsby’s Australian Flying Roos and Peter Burling’s New Zealand Black Foils in what was surely the most exciting three-way winner-takes-all Grand Final the international high-performance sailing league has produced.
Earlier in the day Nicolai Sehested’s Danish ROCKWOOL Racing had managed to claim the team’s first-ever event win when they closed out the six-race fleet race series with a massive 14-point advantage. The Danes’ win comes hot on the heels of the major announcement earlier in the weekend of ROCKWOOL’s renewal of the commitment to SailGP through until 2032.
Also celebrating will be Kiwi helmsman Phil Robertson whose debut on the wheel of Red Bull Italy appeared to electrify the Italian crew who delivered their season-best performance to finish second overall in Abu Dhabi.
