How the Brits won SailGP: Dylan Fletcher’s full debrief
Yachting World · a day ago
by Helen Fretter · Races
Last weekend the Emirates GBR Team became SailGP season champions. Helmsman Dylan Fletcher talks exclusively to Helen Fretter to explain how
“If someone gave you a lottery ticket with a 33 % chance of winning $2m, you’d snap their hand off!” said Dylan Fletcher, helmsman of the Emirates Great Britain Team during last weekend’s SailGP Grand Finale in Abu Dhabi.
And certainly for a lot of the Mubadala Abu Dhabi Sail Grand Prix Season Grand Final – an event title which took almost as long to say as it took the F50s to get to the top mark – luck seemed to be playing a significant part in results, with zephyr-light winds and exceptionally short course plunging the season’s most consistent performers down the leaderboard.
At first watch even the final looked to come down to a ‘Hail Mary’ decision when the British team, who were third – or last – off the line split from the leading duo of Australia’s Bonds Flying Roos and New Zealand Black Foils to hook into a convenient shift and come out on top.
But, as Fletcher explains, that’s not quite how it happened.
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