Podcast: Split fleets make for compelling action at SailGP Halifax

Justin Chisholm and Magnus Wheatley talk through the action from the two-day Canadian SailGP Grand Prix in Halifax, Nova Scotia – which saw the league’s full thirteen-boat contingent race in split fleets for the first time in a full regatta.

Podcast: Split fleets make for compelling action at SailGP Halifax
Image © Samo Vidic for SailGP

The weather gods looking down on the harbour in Halifax might not have made things easy for SailGP race director Iain Murray and his team, but this weekend’s seventh event of Season 6 produced some great split-fleet racing – and culminated in an exciting four-way event final that saw Diego Botín’s Spanish Los Gallos take their first event win of this season ahead of Artemis (SWE), Explora Journeys Swiss, and the overall season leaders the BONDS Flying Roos.

As well as diving into a few of the team performances that caught our eye, Magnus and I also talk through the key moments of the event, and try to work out what the re-shuffled standings at the top of the leaderboard mean for the rest of the season and the run-in to the Season 6 Grand Final this November.

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