Skylip: Awesome comeback win for Australia in Chicago: Tom Slingsby: “We Can’t Defeat”

If you cross the starting line at zero and ten kilometers per hour faster than your two competitors in the triple final, you already have half the competition to beat Recata in SailGP. If you pass the first score with a start, a team like the Australian team will usually end up like that. It happened again in the second Silent Record Regatta of the third season in Chicago. Twice this year world sailor Tom Slingsby and his Green & Yellows set the tone for the $ 1 million prize money in the Pro series, which goes to the winners at the end of the season. Impressive boating on Lake Michigan did not start well for the Australians. The first of the five fleet races for the final, the Down Under team finished seventh in the nine-team Elite Fleet. The Australians suffered an even worse slump at the start of the second day in Overall Heat 4. They finished last. “We saw our chances of success diminishing,” Helmsman later told Slingspe, who was surprised by the comeback that followed.

The subscription winners in SailGP could not be harmed by the wrong actions. “The team performed better under pressure,” Slingsby described one of his side’s many successful qualities. At the crucial moment Australia won the Race Five and trailed by four to advance to the final of the top three. After five fleet races Canada impressed the competition with a remarkably excellent overall result. The newcomers to SailGP, along with strong Kiwi Bill Robertson, shone at Fleetrace with ranks 4, 1, 2, 2 and 2 and traveled as Fleetrace winners in the Triple Final, qualifying for the fight with Sir Ben Ainsley and Team Great Britain. With series 2, 3, 2, 3 and 5. In the three-way battle, the Australians revealed why they were SailGP champions with better position, ability to change quickly and more speed. Slingsby explained that his team wants to start in Finland. When that was not possible, they decided to cross the fort at least exponentially. The project was a resounding success. The Slingsby team beat USA SailGP on Lake Michigan ahead of Canada and Great Britain.

The season’s second win and the fifth regatta victory did not go unnoticed by US Cup winner, Olympic champion and world champion Tom Slingspe. When asked who could stop his team, the 37-year-old said: “I see some. We can not defeat. We’re a little lucky too. The Canadians beat us very clearly in the Fleetrace here. In Chicago, the English are also traveling strong.” To the great delight of the Canadian team, which – a team has now entered the SailGP – Driver Robertson has already shaken the Australians’ throne and could point to Sir Ainsley’s America’s Cup hunters in third place in the United States.
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