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For the United States SailGP Team, it was one thing after another during Season 2. If they weren’t getting crashed into, they were crashing into submerged objects. They had to replace their wing trimmer when he snapped his fibula.
Yet, they still were in position to win it all, and while they fell short at the final hurdle in San Francisco on March 26-27, skipper Jimmy Spithill looks back at SailGP Season 2 and ahead to Season 3:
The final day of SailGP Season 2 pretty much summed up our whole year, in just a few crazy hours.
We knew going into the US$1m bucks, winner-takes-all final SailGP race in San Francisco, that there would be some unpredictable drama in store – but even I was surprised by what took place in the Bay this weekend.
In the first race on the final day, just an hour before the biggest showdown of the season, we were taken out by Spain SailGP Team, who crashed into us and it left a huge hole in the back of our boat.
It was a challenging situation for the Japanese, Aussies, and ourselves – we all wanted to race hard and push in preparation for the final in the lead-up races, but couldn’t afford a major incident… well, we were almost taken out and not able to race the final.
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