At the top of the Championship leaderboard with a dominating 11-point lead, defending champions Australia remain the team to beat heading into the final installment of Season 3, SailGP San Francisco. Peter Burling’s New Zealand meanwhile currently sits in second place with a comfortable four-point lead ahead of France in third.
Ahead of the 2022-23 Grand Final, May 6-7, SailGP digs into the data and compare the teams’ performances to see which one has the edge heading into the San Francisco shootout.
With such a dominating points lead, Australia is the only team guaranteed a spot in the three-boat, winner-takes-all Grand Final regardless of how the team places throughout fleet racing. New Zealand doesn’t have the same security however, and could fall out of the top three. But for this to happen, Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team would need to win fleet racing, France would need to finish second and the Kiwis in sixth…
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