2019 SailGP championship

2019 SailGP Championship
The Australian, Chinese, and British SailGP teams at the New York SailGP.
Event title
Name2019 SailGP Championship
DatesFebruary 15 to September 22, 2019
YachtsF50
Results
Winner Australia (1st title)

The 2019 SailGP Championship was the first season of the SailGP championship, and was won by the Australian team.[1]

Entries

The series had six teams enter, all of which competed in all rounds.

Team Helmsman Rounds
Australia SailGP Team Tom Slingsby All
China SailGP Team Phil Robertson All
France SailGP Team Billy Besson All
Great Britain SailGP Team Dylan Fletcher All
Japan SailGP Team Nathan Outteridge All
United States SailGP Team Rome Kirby All
Citation:[2]

Calendar

The season was contested over five rounds, of which all but one were won by the Australian team.

Rnd Host Title Dates Winning team
1 Sydney, Australia Sydney Sail Grand Prix February 15–16 Australia
2 San Francisco, USA San Francisco Sail Grand Prix May 4–5 Australia
3 New York City, USA New York Sail Grand Prix June 21–22 Japan
4 Cowes, England (Isle of Wight) Coews Sail Grand Prix August 10–11 Australia[a]
5 Marseille, France Marseille Sail Grand Prix September 20–22 Australia
Citation:[2]

Season

Round 1: Sydney

Pos Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
1 Australia 4 1 1 1 1 1
2 Japan 1 2 2 2 3 2
3 Great Britain 3 4 4 3 5
4 China 2 6 6 6 2
5 France DNF 5 3 4 4
6 United States 5 3 5 5 6

Round 2: San Francisco

Pos Team
SFN
1 2 3 4 5 F
1 Australia 2 2 3 3 1 1
2 Japan 1 1 1 2 4 2
3 Great Britain 3 4 2 1 2
4 United States 4 3 4 4 3
5 France 5 6 6 5 5
6 China 6 5 5 6 6

Round 3: New York

Pos Team 1 2 3 4 5 F
1 Japan 2 1 1 1 2 1
2 Australia 1 2 2 2 3 2
3 United States 4 4 5 4 1
4 China 3 5 3 5 6
5 France 5 3 4 6 5
6 Great Britain 6 6 6 3 4

Round 4: Cowes

Pos Team 1 2 3
1 Australia 1 1 1
2 Japan 2 3 3
3 China 3 2 4
4 France 4 5 2
5 United States 6 4 5
6 Great Britain 5 6 6

Event shortened due to extreme weather

Round 5: Marseille

Pos Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 Australia 2 1 2 1 2 2
2 Japan 1 4 1 2 3 1
3 China 5 3 5 3 1 4 2
4 France 4 5 4 4 6 3 1
5 Great Britain 3 2 3 6 4 6 4
6 United States 6 6 6 5 5 5 3

Grand Final: Marseille

Pos Team F
1 Australia 1
2 Japan 2

Results

Main article: Statistics of SailGP

Points were awarded per race, with 10 points for the winner, 9 points for second place, 8 points for third, and so on.

Each event hosted multiple races, with the two highest scoring teams after each round facing off one-on-one. The winner of that final race won the event. The two highest scoring teams at the end of the season competed in Marseille with the winning team awarded the championship.

Pos Team
SYD
SFN
NYC
COW[a]
MAR
FIN 		Points
1 Australia 1 1 2 1 1 1 229
2 Japan 2 2 1 2 2 2 223
3 China 4 6 4 3 3 171
4 Great Britain 3 3 6 5 5 169
5 France 5 5 5 6 4 164
6 United States 6 4 3 5 6 163
Citations:[4][5][6][7]
Key
Colour Result
1 Winner
2 Second place
3 Third place
4–6 Finish
DNF Did not finish
DNS Did not start
DSQ Disqualified
WH Withheld from racing
C Race cancelled

Notes

  1. ^ a b Although the Cowes SailGP was planned to take place over 5 races and a final, the event was shortened due to extreme weather and was awarded to the Australian team.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Team Australia wins inaugural SailGP title over Team Japan after daring move". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. September 23, 2019. Archived from the original on November 9, 2019. Retrieved October 24, 2020.
  2. ^ a b Fish, Ben (June 15, 2019). "SailGP Season 1 Media Guide" (PDF). Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  3. ^ "Aussies survive SailGP Cowes". Scuttlebutt Sailing News. August 11, 2019. Archived from the original on August 11, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2020.
  4. ^ "San Francisco SailGP: Result". SailGP. May 5, 2019. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  5. ^ "New York SailGP: Result". SailGP. June 22, 2019. Archived from the original on October 22, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  6. ^ "Cowes SailGP: Result". SailGP. August 11, 2019. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
  7. ^ "Marseille SailGP: Results". SailGP. September 22, 2019. Archived from the original on September 28, 2020. Retrieved November 25, 2020.
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