Racing Roundup #023
Our weekly curated digest of the latest news and stories from across the yacht racing world.
2025 World Match Racing Tour Final: Champions collide as semi final teams are confirmed
Day 4 at the WMRT Final Shenzhen Baoan for the 2025 Match Racing World Championship saw the final four skippers emerge from a challenging and hard fought quarterfinals in light and unpredictable airs.
Alfa Romeo unveils the limited edtion 'Giulia Quadrifoglio Luna Rossa'
The new limited series inspired by the Italian America’s Cup AC75 makes its world premiere at the 2026 Brussels Motor Show
RORC Transatlantic Race: Inside the minds of the navigators
Three elite strategists explain to RORC communications manager Louay Habib how they are reading the Atlantic racecourse for the upcoming 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race.
Giles Scott on NorthStar's path forward
We catch up with Giles Scott, skipper of the Canadian NorthStar SailGP team, as the British double Olympic gold medallist reflects on his up and down first year in charge and shares some of the team's plans for Season 6.
Eight left standing ahead of 2025 WMRT Final quarter finals
The knockout stage of the 2025 World Match Racing Tour Final is set after a high-pressure day of repechage racing in the heart of Shenzhen, where survival was the only objective and mistakes proved costly. In ultra-light, shifting winds on OH Bay, New Zealand’s Nick Egnot-Johnson
Now with more power
Two-speed and three-speed electric versions of Ronstan's Orbit winch are now available.
American Magic and SailGP announce Pensacola training facility partnership
SailGP has established its first long-term training base at the state-of-the-art American Magic performance and innovation center, which officially opened today in Pensacola, Florida.
2025 WMRT Final: Two top name skippers eliminated on Day 2 in Shenzhen Bao’an
Two of the highest-ranked skippers in world match racing were eliminated on Day 2 of the 2025 World Match Racing Tour Final in Shenzhen Bao’an, as treacherous light-wind conditions delivered a major upset and blew the competition wide open.
2026 RORC Transatlantic Race fleet assembles in Lanzarote
The 2026 RORC Transatlantic Race starts from Marina Lanzarote this Sunday and will see 21 teams take on the 3,000 nautical-mile voyage west across the Atlantic to Antigua – writes Louay Habib.