2024–25 SailGP championship

The 2024–25 SailGP Championship, officially the Rolex SailGP 2025 Championship, is the fifth season of the SailGP championship.

Rolex SailGP 2025 Championship

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Event title
Name	Rolex SailGP 2025 Championship
Dates	November 23, 2024 to Nov 29, 2025
Yachts	F50
← 2023-24 TBA →

Start on the Sunday of the Season 5 Great Britain SailGP in Portsmouth

Entries

Team	Helmsman	Events
Australia SailGP Team BONDS Flying Roos SailGP Team[a]	Tom Slingsby	1–7
Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team	Martine Grael	1–7
NorthStar SailGP Team	Giles Scott	1–7
Rockwool Racing SailGP Team	Nicolai Sehested	1–4, 6–7
France SailGP Team	Quentin Delapierre	3–7
Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team	Dylan Fletcher	1–7
Germany Deutsche Bank SailGP Team	Erik Heil	1–7
Red Bull Italy SailGP Team	Ruggero Tita	1–7
Black Foils, New Zealand Sail GP Team	Peter Burling	1–7
Spain SailGP Team	Diego Botín	1–7
Switzerland SailGP Team	Sébastien Schneiter	1–7
United States SailGP Team	Taylor Canfield	1–2, 4–7
Citations:

Team changes

Teams from Brazil and Italy will join the fifth season.^[1][2] France will miss the opening round of the season due to a shortage of F50 catamarans.

Calendar

The Race Calendar for 2024-25 was announced on July 9, 2024, and features new stops in Brazil, UAE, a yet to be announced Middle Eastern Country, Germany, Switzerland and a return to Great Britain.^[3] Notably; fans from Canada and Bermuda were disappointed to not have return visits to their countries but remain hopeful to be included in a sixth season.^[4][5][6]

Rnd	Host	Title	Dates	Winning team
1	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas	November 23–24, 2024	New Zealand
2	Auckland, New Zealand	ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Auckland	January 18–19, 2025	Australia
3	Sydney, Australia	KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney	February 8–9, 2025	Emirates Great Britain
4	Los Angeles, United States	Rolex Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix	March 15–16, 2025	NorthStar
5	San Francisco, United States	Oracle San Francisco Sail Grand Prix	March 22–23, 2025	Spain
–[b]	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Enel Rio Sail Grand Prix	May 3–4, 2025	Removed
6	New York City, United States	Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix	June 7–8, 2025	Spain
7	Portsmouth, Great Britain	Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix | Portsmouth	July 19–20, 2025	New Zealand
8	Sassnitz, Germany	Germany Sail Grand Prix | Sassnitz	August 16–17, 2025	TBD
–[c]	Taranto, Italy	Rockwool International Italy Sail Grand Prix | Taranto	September 6–7, 2025	Removed
9	Saint-Tropez, France	Rockwool International France Sail Grand Prix | Saint-Tropez	September 12-13, 2025	TBD
10	Geneva, Switzerland	Rolex Switzerland Sail Grand Prix | Geneva	September 20–21, 2025	TBD
11	Cádiz, Spain	Spain Sail Grand Prix | Andalucia-Cadiz	October 4–5, 2025	TBD
TBA	TBA, Middle East	TBA	November 7–8, 2025	TBD
12	Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	Mubadala Abu Dhabi SailGP 2024/2025 Season Grand Final, presented by Abu Dhabi Sport Council	November 29–30, 2025	TBD
Citations:[3][7][8][9][10][11][12]

Season

Round 1: Dubai

Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas marked the debut of two new teams joining the fleet - Mubadala Brazil and Red Bull Italy.^[1][2]

Due to a shortage of F50 catamarans, only 11 teams were able to race in the Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas. France SailGP Team's potential new ownership group opted to wait for the league's newest F50 and miss the first event, for which France were awarded compensatory points.^[13]

Results

Black Foils, New Zealand
Emirates Great Britain
United States

Spain reached the highest speed of the event: 64.8 km/h / 40.3 mph / 35 knots^[14]

Round 2: Auckland

After nearly two years of testing, SailGP has introduced its new high-speed titanium T-Foils to the entire F50 fleet at the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Auckland. Constructed from machined titanium and carbon, the high-speed T-Foils have thinner sections than the former L-Foils, reducing drag at high speeds.^[15]

France SailGP Team, which had been due to rejoin the fleet, was not on the start line in Auckland due to the discovery of an issue in the titanium wingsail connectors of the team's new F50, that could not be resolved in time for France to compete.^[16]

On the second day of ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Auckland, Canadian flight controller Billy Gooderham was injured during a maneuver in pre-racing warm up ahead of official racing. The team was not able to compete in remaining races.^[17]

Results

Australia
Spain
Emirates Great Britain

Spain reached the highest speed of the event: 96 km/h / 59.7 mph / 51.8 knots^[18]

Round 3: Sydney

United States SailGP Team capsized while being towed to the practise racecourse on Friday, the damage caused to the wing made the Americans unable to compete in the event.^[19]

After sitting out the first two events, France SailGP Team returned to the competition in Sydney.

Results

Emirates Great Britain
NorthStar, Canada
Australia

Australia reached the highest speed of the event: 96.4 km/h / 59.9 mph / 52 knots^[20]

Round 4: Los Angeles

ROCKWOOL Racing SailGP Team collided with a mark during race 1 of Rolex Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix. The sustained damage ruled them out of competition.^[21]

Results

NorthStar, Canada
Black Foils, New Zealand
Australia

ROCKWOOL Racing reached the highest speed of the event: 85.3 km/h / 53 mph / 46.1 knots^[22]

Round 5: San Francisco

After collision with a mark at Rolex Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix, the damage to ROCKWOOL Racing's F50 proved to be too extensive to be fixed in time, as a result they were ruled out of racing in San Francisco.^[23]

6 seconds before the start of Race 7 Australia's wing collapsed, the cause is still unknown. The team couldn't race in the Event Final despite finishing fleet racing in 3rd place, France, who placed 4th, joined the top 2 teams instead.^[24]

Results

Spain
NorthStar, Canada
France

United States reached the highest speed of the event: 90.2 km/h / 56 mph / 48.7 knots^[25]

Round 6: New York

Round 7: Portsmouth

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, with 11th and 12th place getting 0 points.^[26]

Each event hosts seven fleet 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. Teams in 11th and 12th positions do not receive any Championship points.^[26]

In the event of a tie between two or more boats in the event or Championship leaderboard, the teams are ranked according to their finishing places in the most recent race or event.^[26]

The three highest scoring teams at the end of the season compete in the SailGP Grand Final with the winning team awarded the championship.^[27]

Pos Team DUB AKL SYD LA SFN NYC PSM SAS STP GEN CDZ ABD Points [d] 1 2 3 4 5 F P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 F P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 F P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 F P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 F P 1 2 3 4 5 6 F P 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 F P 1 ... F 1 ... F 1 ... F 1 ... F 1 ... F 1 New Zealand 2 3 5 1 7 1 10 4 8 6 1 4 6 2 7 8 7 11 11 2 1 5 3 1 1 9 2 9 2 4 2 9 4 8 6 3 8 3 1 6 2 11 1 4 2 4 2 9 2 4 1 11 1 5 1 1 10 54 2 BONDS Flying Roos 3 5 1 4 10 6 5 1 2 2 1 2 DNF 1 10 3 2 1 1 3 3 1 3 8 10 3 1 3 5 1 7 3 8 2 3 3 4 5 2 DNF 7 5 1 10 11 5 1 6 7 5 5 1 4 8 5 7 52 3 Spain 8 6 3 2 4 7 2 4 4 8 5 3 3 2 9 2 9 7 5 5 5 9 4 2 7 10 4 2 11 6 6 3 6 1 5 3 1 2 1 10 1 4 3 2 11 7 1 10 4 6 4 10 5 11 8 5 51 4 Emirates Great Britain 5 8 2 3 3 2 9 1 2 9 4 2 4 6 3 8 5 1 3 3 1 6 7 1 10 4 4 8 7 1 6 1 7 8 2 4 11 11 7 6 4 11 6 9 10 3 3 3 1 2 3 2 3 6 7 2 9 50 5 NorthStar 9 2 4 8 6 5 9 7 3 6 DNS DNS DNS 1 7 8 5 4 4 2 4 2 9 3 2 5 6 3 3 5 1 10 5 1 2 1 4 10 5 2 9 7 5 11 8 9 2 4 6 8 11 9 2 10 3 3 41 6 France 5 (0) 5 (0) 4 3 8 2 6 9 8 5 6 9 3 1 4 8 11 5 1 10 8 2 2 5 3 3 8 6 3 4 3 1 5 3 8 DNS DNS DNS DNS 11 1 2 1 37 (27) 7 Switzerland 4 4 8 9 8 2 11 10 1 3 10 10 4 4 1 6 2 9 9 11 2 6 5 11 11 10 6 5 9 1 7 5 7 7 1 4 7 5 8 8 6 6 12 6 2 5 1 2 6 8 3 4 DNF 8 28 8 Red Bull Italy 10 11 9 11 9 0 3 3 7 7 3 9 8 5 9 10 9 8 10 10 11 2 9 6 6 8 11 4 3 3 6 9 5 10 7 6 9 3 12 12 8 7 8 9 0 8 3 6 3 10 2 9 6 21 9 Rockwool Denmark 6 9 11 5 1 4 6 5 5 5 8 1 1 6 6 4 4 6 7 4 6 7 DNF DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS DNS -8 (0) 0 3 9 2 5 10 12 5 3 10 7 7 6 4 11 4 18 (26) 10 Mubadala Brazil 11 10 6 7 11 1 10 9 8 11 7 5 7 2 11 5 10 10 DNF 8 10 -3 (1) 11 10 2 9 9 10 10 0 10 7 11 6 6 9 4 2 9 2 5 1 4 11 7 10 11 8 5 9 7 6 2 11 (15) 11 Germany Deutsche Bank 7 1 10 10 5 3 8 11 DNS 9 6 7 5 3 10 11 6 7 8 7 3 -12 (0) 8 5 7 11 7 7 2 4 9 4 10 8 9 11 8 1 4 7 12 9 6 10 1 11 9 9 4 7 9 12 0 0 (12) 12 United States 1 7 7 6 2 3 8 7 6 10 10 9 8 9 0 -8 (0) 7 8 4 5 10 9 8 2 11 11 9 9 10 8 10 0 10 10 7 12 7 8 -2 (0) 9 7 10 8 DNS DNS 10 0 0 (10) Citation:[28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]

Key Colour Result 1 Winner 2 Second place 3 Third place 4–12 Finish DNF Did not finish DNS Did not start DSQ Disqualified WH Withheld from racing C Race cancelled

Notes

• France SailGP Team were awarded five points in Season Championship for sitting out of Emirates Dubai Sail Grand Prix presented by P&O Marinas as build of 12th F50 is completed
• France SailGP Team were awarded five points in Season Championship for missing ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Auckland due to technical wingsail issue^[36]
• United States SailGP Team were penalised eight points in Season Championship for twelve-point penalty at KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney – breaking Rule 57^[e] during practice day transit
• Germany Deutsche Bank SailGP Team were penalised eight points in Season Championship for twelve-point penalty at KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney – collision with Red Bull Italy during practice racing
• Germany Deutsche Bank SailGP Team were penalised eight points in Season Championship for twelve-point penalty at KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney – collision with Mubadala Brazil during practice racing
• Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team were penalised four points in Season Championship for eight-point penalty at KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney – breaking Rule 57^[e] during practice racing^[37]
• Germany Deutsche Bank SailGP Team were penalised four points in Season Championship for eight-point penalty at KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix | Sydney – breaking Rule 57^[e] during practice day transit^[f]
• Rockwool Denmark SailGP Team were penalised eight points in Season Championship for twelve-point penalty at Rolex Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix – collision with a race mark during Race 1
• United States SailGP Team handed two season penalty points for four point penalty at Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix - making contact with ROCKWOOL Denmark SailGP Team

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. It encourages teams to implement sustainable practices and promote inclusivity within their organizations and communities. The league tracks teams' progress in areas such as carbon footprint reduction, gender equity, and youth engagement. The SailGP Impact League is a sustainability and inclusivity program within the global sailing league. 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.^[38]New Zealand won the inaugural SailGP Impact League in 2022, followed by Rockwool Denmark in 2023 and Emirates Great Britain in 2024.^[39][40][41]

Standings

Pos	Team		DUB	AKL	SYD	LA	RZW	SFN	NYC	PF	PSM	SAS	STP	GEN	CDZ	TBA	ABD	Points
1		Emirates Great Britain	12	19	25	13	73	13	22	82								259
2		NorthStar	15	23	26	12	66	13	22	79								256
3		Mubadala Brazil	11	23	22	6	75	11	21	73								242
4		Switzerland	12	23	26	13	56	14	23	69								234
5		United States	11	22	20	13	53	14	24	75								232
6		New Zealand	13	23	22	15	60	14	23	61								231
7		France	13	24	25	14	58	12	24	58								228
8		Rockwool Denmark	13	18	22	12	62	13	23	63								226
9		BONDS Flying Roos	12	22	21	12	65	13	18	58								221
10		Spain	14	23	26	14	47	11	26	52								213
11		Germany Deutsche Bank	11	22	23	12	45	8	22	67								210
12		Red Bull Italy	13	21	26	16	41	14	23	43								197
Citation:[42]

Notes

1. The Australian team was rebranded beginning with in New York (round six), following its transition from series to private ownership.
2. After identifying a potential defect in select wingsails across the fleet, SailGP cancelled the Rio event in order to facilitate required repairs
3. Taranto event has been replaced with Saint-Tropez event after changes at the Taranto City Council in late 2024
4. Numbers in brackets show the amount of points before penalties or awarded points
5. Rule 57 penalizes a team for causing damage to its F50 that was reasonable to avoid
6. Despite Germany SailGP Team having accumulated 20 penalty points during the Sydney event, SailGP docked 12 points from their season result. No explanation was given