2023 ROCKWOOL Italia Sail Grand Prix | Ziua 2

36 thoughts on “2023 ROCKWOOL Italia Sail Grand Prix | Ziua 2”

1. Cool

2. Final race ridiculous!!
   For the results

3. wow

4. Congrats USA on the day’s performance!

5. Wait so the position at the gate only counts in fleet races? What a crock

6. Two very different days!
   Not the most exciting final – but the right result.

7. Team GB 🇬🇧

8. Great regatta. Nothing wrong with winning that way – in fact it is more deserving. GBR on a roll. If Ainslie could get some better starts they would dominate.

9. Like watching paint dry

10. Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in awhile.

11. What bullshit, on fleet races is the Mark, on finals is last race…wtf? And a fith to NZ because fish and chips…fuck this joke

12. USA got robbed

13. whats that air inlets looking thing on the sail , around that transparent square windows looking thing of the lower part of the sail , looks like a race car air inlet ,whats for ?

14. What a shoddy way to end the race. Mother Nature won that battle.

15. Would have liked to see an extra 5 mins added to the race, to get a result. Looked like the Brits had a puff of wind on the last leg there, so maybe they would have won legitimately.

16. 🇩🇰🤔

17. R1 looked like the beginning of this year's Fastnet race lol

18. Nature went home today.

19. What a joke of a way to finish a series. Why not postpone and come back tomorrow. Plenty of highly successful sports postpone events due to the weather. Better postpone than a driftathon. Nobody wants to watch a series that ends in this way. So much invested in Sail GP trying to make yachting appeal to the masses, but when you have a race like today as the finale every casual viewer will check out and not come back.

20. Interesting that the GBR results bookend an absolute shocker in the AC40s last weekend, last place almost every race.

21. i'm so pissed at the french team! I can't look at them right now!
    Useless early tack at leg 3 which caused all this mess!
    FUGG!!!

22. There is a reason Sailing races have minimum wind speeds.

23. Honestly Jimmy got a gift when more than half the fleet hit the line early; he was already in second to last place again at that start, but their early crossing made him look smart. Also, without the kiwis in the mix, the field was more wide open. Had the wind been high enough for foiling, I'm sure Jimmy would have settled into his usual 6-7th place groove. He just doesn't know how to start in these races, he's always ten to twenty seconds late turning to the mark.

24. I miss my Extreme Sailing Series!

25. Can we stop using the fave crowd sounds it’s really a turn off

26. Embarrassing start for Jimmy Spithill. Then . . . perfection.

27. Why not have a limited timed extension to see who wins instead of cancellation. Seems counterintuitive and counterproductive.

28. I'd like to see a rule change for the termination of the race. Imo it'd be great if, after the time runs out, the next (not the last) gate counts, so the work you've done is not for nothing in the last leg

29. Please do something about the AWFUL commentary on this event. Please pitch it at the level of expertise of the people watching it which is NOT people new to sailing. 'The dark patches on the water show where the stronger wind is, stronger wind equals more speed'. Do me a favour! When watching a football match you are not constantly told that the players must play the ball with their feet and while it may be necessary to explain some of the twists of the offside rule, you can say someone was offside without immediately having to explain the term. Much of the commentary is very high quality and insightful; the rest is awful. Please get rid of Tucker Thompson.

30. Time limit… what a STUPID rule, let them race. Are they worried about commercial air time?….totally DUMB.

31. Should be no time limits or course changes in a final. Ever.

32. Well, at least when Peter Burling finishes up being on board, he can always step into the commentary box. He has some great insights

33. Put in a higher min wind speed already. Boring when not foiling

34. Is there no spare masts, or is it a logistics issue?

35. Very Poor Wind Rule – these are built to be High Speed Foiling Cats – that is what people want to see and setting the wind so low makes racing pointless, The entire day should have been Run but as a Practice Day with no points – the alleged winner was 1 man down which was an advantage on the day because of the poor conditions – this is not Racing and I'd still be saying that if NZ was winning and hadn't unloaded the wing and went to do a show off to a Game Over – This is not racing it's not even entertaining – it should have been called off.

36. I really like the fact that sale GP uses kilometres per hour
    But I really don’t like the fact that they cool the Helmsman the driver it is incredibly ambiguous
    The term driver has the most commonly associated to a motor vehicle like a car or a truck and that case the solely in charge of all of the controls and may have a navigated to assist them
    And calling the Helmsman the driver belittles all of the other roles on the boat

    You can drive a vehicle by yourself but you can’t Helma GP50 by yourself you need the flight control the wing trimmer and the grinders all working in unison

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