Away from the celebrations of INEOS Britannia defeating Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli in the Louis Vuitton Cup Final racing on 4 October another piece of America’s Cup history was quietly…
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How to watch the Great Britain SailGP in Plymouth
The foiling F50 catamarans will be heading to Plymouth for the Great Britain SailGP in one week’s time, from July 30-31, and there’s still time for British and visiting fans…
Slingsby and Co win SailGP Season 2
Tom Slingsby’s Australian team have won the second season of SailGP, picking up the $1m prize purse for the second season running in what was a chaotic day on the…
SailGP: $1 million purse up for grabs in San Fran
Season 2 of SailGP is set to draw to a close this weekend as the eight competing teams, sailing their foiling F50s, line up for the SailGP Final in San…
SailGP: Australian team takes victory in British leg
Thousands of fans turned up on Plymouth Hoe, and hundreds of spectator boats lined the F50 racecourse in Plymouth Sound as the sold out Great Britain SailGP took place over the…
SailGP: Light winds for round 2 in Italy
It was a weekend dominated by light winds as the SailGP fleet took to the waters of Taranto, Italy for their second regatta of 2021. Even with the new wingsail…
SailGP: Stunning opening weekend hails return of series
Sir Ben Ainslie’s British team took the opening victory in an action-packed SailGP in Bermuda, which saw close racing, collisions, capsizes and more as the eight foiling F50 catamarans fought…
Spoiling Ainslie’s dream, why practice day at the Portsmouth America’s Cup World Series was a big deal
“We would like nothing more than to spoil the dream that Ben [Ainslie] and his team has,” said Oracle Racing’s skipper Jimmy Spithill on the eve of the practice day…
Spithill Does the Double
Oracle Spithill win both the match racing and the fleet racing on the final day at the ACWS in San Francisco
Spithill Nosedives at ACWS
The king of the Cup takes a swim on Saturday’s fleet race but goes on to win match racing
AC45: Spithill Takes the Double
Oracle Spithill is the first team to win both the match racing and fleet racing after a thrilling final day’s racing in San Diego
AC34:Oracle Spithill Wins Match Racing
The final day’s match racing in San Diego saw the big team win but not without being pushed hard by smaller teams
Oracle’s Spithill and Coutts on racing
Top sailors give their post-race opinions of America's Cup at Plymouth
Full tilt with Jimmy Spithill
I get a chance to race with the Oracle 4 America's Cup team, and try out the brown trousers
Louis Vuitton: Spithill dominant
BMW Oracle skipper continued an unbroken record as his team posted two more victories in Dubai
Spithill wins Gold Cup
Australian James Spithill won the Investors Guaranty presentation of The King Edward VII Gold Cup match race championship in Bermuda yesterday
Coutts and Spithill in pile-up
Russell Coutts and James Spithill were involved in a collision at yesterday's King Edward VII Gold Cup's Pro Am Regatta in Bermuda