SailGP puts on a show in Sassnitz

SailGP Season 6 has had its fair share of ups and downs, but this weekend’s two days of pulsating action from Sassnitz, Germany saw the international high-performance circuit really hit its stride.

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There are so many positives about the weekend, it’s hard to know where to start.

But let’s begin with the venue itself. Unknown in regatta circles until discovered by SailGP in Season 5, Sassnitz has quickly proved popular with the fans and competitors alike for its strong and shifty prevailing winds and wide open race course. Last season the Danish Rockwool Racing crew set a new F50 top speed record during a first-mark bear away that saw them top 103.93 km/h (56.1 knots). This weekend it was the French DS Automobiles team that pushed that benchmark up to 107.63 km/h (58.1 knots) on a similar bear away. Conditions on Saturday saw winds up around 25 knots.