WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
Funded by billionaire Larry Ellison and run by Sir Russell Coutts, SailGP did not arrive quietly on our shores. Its first season has won a claimed global audience of 1.8 billion viewers, shoreside spectators numbering 133,000, almost 7,000 press articles worldwide, 20.7 million video views on social media and one sail racing speed record of 51.24 knots, set by Tom Slingsby and team Australia at the Cowes event. Then there was the not inconsiderable prize pot of $1 million for the winners.
After increasingly close racing over the season, as some of the world’s best sailors got to grips with the one-design F50s at events in Sydney, San Francisco, New York and Cowes, who would take home that cool million was talk of the quayside in Marseille, where SailGP’s season 1 finale took place under blue skies in
