2022–23 SailGP championship

The 2022–23 SailGP Championship was the third season of the SailGP championship.

2022–23 SailGP Championship

Event title
Name	2022–23 SailGP Championship
Dates	May 14, 2022 to May 7, 2023
Yachts	F50
Results
Winner	Australia
Impact League	Denmark
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Entries

Team	Helmsman	Rounds
Australia SailGP Team	Tom Slingsby	All
Canada SailGP Team	Phil Robertson	All
Denmark SailGP Team presented by Rockwool	Nicolai Sehested	All
France SailGP Team	Quentin Delapierre	All
Great Britain SailGP Team Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team[a]	Ben Ainslie	1–3, 5–11
New Zealand SailGP Team	Peter Burling	All
Spain SailGP Team	Jordi Xammar	1–8
	Diego Botín	9–11
Switzerland SailGP Team	Sébastien Schneiter	1–3, 6–11
	Nathan Outteridge	4–5
United States SailGP Team	Jimmy Spithill	All
Citations:[1]

Team changes

Canada and Switzerland joined the championship, increasing the number of teams to nine.

Japan SailGP Team participation has been indefinitely paused during the 2022–23 season due to a shortage of F50 yachts. Since new entrants Canada and Switzerland are self-funded, Japan was selected from the centrally-funded teams to give up their yacht due to a lack of sponsorship for the team.^[2][3] Japan's former helm and CEO Nathan Outteridge has since signed onto the Swiss SailGP Team and served as skipper in recent regattas.^[4]

Calendar

Four new venues joined the schedule with the additions of Chicago, Dubai, Singapore and New Zealand. Italy will not continue as a venue for this season. Denmark's location moved from Aarhus to Copenhagen.^[5][6] Sydney was not on the original schedule, but later entered into a three-year contract to start with the third season.^[7]

Rnd	Host	Title	Dates	Winning team
1	Bermuda	Bermuda Sail Grand Prix presented by Hamilton Princess	May 14–15, 2022	Australia
2	Chicago, United States	T-Mobile United States Sail Grand Prix | Chicago at Navy Pier	June 18–19, 2022	Australia
3	Plymouth, England	Great Britain Sail Grand Prix | Plymouth	July 30–31, 2022	New Zealand
4	Copenhagen, Denmark	ROCKWOOL Denmark Sail Grand Prix | Copenhagen	August 20, 2022[b]	New Zealand
5	Saint-Tropez, France	Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix | Saint-Tropez	September 10–11, 2022	United States
6	Cádiz, Spain	Spain Sail Grand Prix | Andalucía – Cádiz presented by NEAR	September 24–25, 2022	France
7	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas	November 11–12, 2022	Australia
8	Singapore	Singapore Sail Grand Prix	January 14–15, 2023	New Zealand
9	Sydney	KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney	February 18, 2023[c]	France[d]
10	Christchurch, New Zealand	ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Christchurch	March 18–19, 2023	Canada
11	San Francisco, US	Mubadala SailGP Season 3 Grand Final | San Francisco	May 6–7, 2023	Australia
Citations:[6][7]

Season

Round 1: Bermuda

Round 2: Chicago

Round 3: Great Britain

Round 4: Denmark

Great Britain did not participate in the regatta after hitting a rock during a practice session and causing severe damage to their F50.^[8] Day 1 of racing on August 19 was cancelled due to light wind.

Round 5: Saint-Tropez

The Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix event brought two days with wildly different wind conditions. Day 1 featured heavy wind and fast racing with puffs reaching up to 45 km/h. The F50 class speed record was set several times during racing, with the final record set by the French team at 99.94 km/h.^[9] Mark roundings were high stakes maneuvers, with most teams intentionally "landing" the boats to scrub speed. There were two near-capsizes from Canada and Denmark, and Australia sustained damage at the end of race one during a sudden de-foil, but the fleet managed the conditions well for three exciting races.

Day 2's wind was at the minimum 10 km/h range so the fleet's modular wings were extended from Day 1's 18 meters to the tallest 29-meter configuration.^[10] Although two races were attempted, both courses were shortened and only one was completed within the 14-minute time limit. The event final then featured light air tactics from USA, NZL and GRB hunting for patches of wind to speed them across the finish.

Two teams were penalized points for boat to boat contact: Switzerland was docked 4 event points and 2 championship points for contact with USA during practice. USA was docked 8 event points and 4 championship points for contact with France during race 5.^[11]

Round 6: Cádiz

Race management has increased the time limit for races from 14 minutes to 16 minutes, and decreased the minimum legs from 4 to 3.^[12]

Round 7: Dubai

Round 8: Singapore

Round 9: Sydney

Round 10: New Zealand

Grand Final: San Francisco

Results

Main article: Statistics of SailGP

Points are awarded per race for the Event Leaderboard, with 10 points for the winner, 9 points for second place, 8 points for third, and so on.^[13]

Each event hosts multiple races, with the three highest scoring teams of the event facing off in an additional final race to decide the podium order. The winner of that final wins the event, with the final standings of the event leaderboard used to award points for the Championship Leaderboard. The winner is awarded 10 Championship points, second awarded 9, and so on.^[13]

The three highest scoring teams at the end of the season compete in the Sail GP Grand Final with the winning team awarded the championship.^[14]

Pos Team BMU CHI PLY COP[b] STP[e] CDZ DUB SGP[f] SYD[c] CHR SFN Points 1 2 3 4 5 F 1 2 3 4 5 F 1 2 3 4 5 F 1 2 3 F 1 2 3 4 5 6 F 1 2 3 4 5 F 1 2 3 4 5 6 F 1 2 3 4 5 F 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 F 1 2 3 4 5 GF 1 Australia 4 5 3 4 1 1 7 2 3 9 1 1 6 1 4 3 3 2 5 3 4 5 1 7 7 DNF C 6 1 2 2 6 3 8 8 4 5 1 3 1 2 2 7 4 C 3 3 4 6 4 2 9 1 1 3 1 3 1 2 1 1 94 2 New Zealand 7 3 8 1 7 1 5 4 5 8 2 2 1 5 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 2 DNF C 2 1 6 5 8 7 4 2 7 1 6 5 1 5 2 3 C 1 9 3 4 2 1 2 2 3 2 4 7 3 6 7 2 78 (82) 3 Emirates Great Britain[a] 1 8 1 5 4 2 2 3 2 3 5 3 4 4 6 1 4 2 9 4 3 DNF C 3 8 2 1 3 9 6 1 1 2 3 4 3 5 3 5 5 C 6 6 2 3 4 3 4 6 2 1 2 4 5 3 77 4 France 9 2 2 DSQ 8 9 8 6 1 4 3 3 5 4 9 6 4 2 2 6 6 2 5 DNF C 2 4 3 5 3 1 2 6 6 3 8 2 2 7 9 4 6 C 1 1 1 1 6 5 3 7 6 8 6 1 6 75 5 Canada 2 1 5 7 5 3 4 1 1 2 2 2 1 9 3 9 7 4 5 7 8 7 6 9 DNF C 7 8 6 1 1 1 5 8 4 9 8 4 4 9 7 C 5 7 7 5 3 1 6 4 1 8 2 5 5 2 67 6 Denmark 5 9 4 3 3 3 4 8 6 7 8 5 2 2 2 3 3 2 3 3 9 3 8 6 DNF C 9 7 9 4 2 3 3 9 6 4 DNF 3 6 3 1 C 2 4 8 3 7 8 8 7 8 5 6 4 3 4 67 7 United States 3 7 7 6 2 8 9 7 7 3 9 6 7 5 5 2 6 6 3 2 3 1 DNF C 1 3 5 4 6 4 2 7 4 2 9 2 7 8 1 8 8 C 2 2 5 8 5 4 9 2 7 4 7 7 3 56 (64) 8 Switzerland 8 6 6 8 6 6 7 9 4 9 5 7 8 8 8 7 7 5 7 8 5 4 DNF C 5 9 8 9 5 5 7 3 8 7 6 6 8 1 2 C 7 9 8 6 7 6 8 5 3 5 9 9 9 33 (35) 9 Spain 6 4 9 2 9 5 6 5 8 6 7 8 9 7 6 8 8 8 4 5 9 8 DNF C 4 3 7 7 8 9 9 5 7 5 1 9 7 6 9 C 8 5 9 9 9 7 5 9 9 9 8 8 8 31 (33) Citations:[15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

Key Colour Result 1 Winner 2 Second place 3 Third place 4–9 Finish DNF Did not finish DNS Did not start DSQ Disqualified WH Withheld from racing C Race cancelled

Notes

• New Zealand SailGP Team were penalised four points in the championship: two for a four-point penalty at Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas, and two for a four-point penalty at Singapore Sail Grand Prix.
• United States SailGP Team were penalised eight points in the championship: four for an eight-point penalty at Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix | Saint-Tropez, and four for an eight-point penalty at San Francisco Sail Grand Prix.
• Switzerland SailGP Team were penalised two points in the championship for a four-point penalty at Range Rover France Sail Grand Prix | Saint-Tropez.
• Spain SailGP Team were penalised two points in the championship for a four-point penalty at Great Britain Sail Grand Prix | Plymouth.

Impact League

As part of SailGP's sustainability initiatives, the championship runs a second leaderboard on which teams compete to have the greatest improvement in the sustainability of the sport. Teams are externally audited after each round against 10 criteria, with the top three ranked teams awarded prize money to be donated to the teams' sustainability partners.^[24]

Standings

Pos	Team	BMU	CHI	PLY	COP	STP	CDZ	DUB	SGP	CHR	SFN	Points
1	Denmark	170	169	166	128	139	154	144	163	182	151	1565
2	New Zealand	171	163	176	138	130	150	146	163	181	144	1560
3	Emirates Great Britain[a]	159	164	168	137	135	146	157	153	157	141	1516
4	Canada	167	160	171	121	130	165	162	151	159	127	1513
5	Spain	155	153	166	135	113	155	138	148	154	132	1459
6	France	160	141	165	133	135	157	145	150	161	103	1452
7	Australia	158	163	169	128	127	126	128	156	178	109	1440
8	United States	151	154	168	111	128	156	141	142	156	111	1417
9	Switzerland	120	136	169	139	137	132	153	159	165	105	1413
Citation:[25]

Inspire Racing

SailGP, in partnership with Waszp, created Inspire Racing to make foiling more accessible to young sailors, give them opportunity to experience a large sailing competition in all aspects, including racing in front of huge SailGP crowds.^[26]

Location	Winners	Runner-up	3rd place
Bermuda	Rachel Betschart	Ethan Thompson	Christopher Adderley
Chicago	Gavin Ball	Galen Richardson	JP Lattanzi
Plymouth	Duncan Gregor	Jamie Cook	Tom Williamson
Saint-Tropez	Hippolyte Gruet	Eliott Coville	Joseph Lamiot
Cádiz	Jaime Framis Harguindey	Quique Urios Salinas	Ian Walker March
Sydney	Louis Tilly	Aidan Simmons	Keizo Tomishima
Christchurch	Noah Malpot	Lucas Day	Tim Howse
San Francisco – Final	Gavin Ball Stella Bilger	Duncan Gregor Rachael Betschart	Hippolyte Gruet Hedvig Doksrød
Citations: [27]

Notes

1. Emirates served as the British team's title sponsor beginning at the Australia SailGP (round nine).
2. The Danish round was scheduled to be held over August 19–20, but the first day of racing was cancelled due to a lack of wind. The event was therefore shortened from five fleet races to three.
3. The Sydney round was scheduled over six fleet races and a final, but the entire second day of racing was cancelled following severe weather overnight, which damaged several catamarans and left conditions unsuitable.
4. Due to severe weather, the second day of racing in Sydney was cancelled. The French team were declared winners of the event.
5. The Saint-Tropez SailGP was scheduled over six fleet races. As no team crossed the finish line within the time window allowed, the fifth race was terminated. The sixth race was cancelled entirely.
6. The Singaporean round was scheduled over five fleet races but was shortened to four fleet races due to low winds.