The Enel Rio Sail Grand Prix began Saturday on Guanabara Bay, Brazil with light winds and difficult foiling conditions.
Tom Slingsby will take the Australian team into day 2 with the lead after four races (2, 8, 3, 3) on 28 pts.
Second is Taylor Canfield and the US SailGP Team (3, 4, 5, 5) on 27 pts, and third Nathan Outteridge and Sweden’s Artemis (1, 2, 6, 9) with 26 pts.
Day 1 Race winners were:
Race 1 – SWE Artemis
Race 2 – ESP – Los Gallos
Race 3 – ITA Red Bull Italy
Race 4 – GER – Germany By Deutsche Bank
Emirates GBR had a disastrous day (11, 6, 12, 12) with technical problems ( issues with rake control not locking ) and finished the day last of the 12 teams racing.
Brazil also had technical problems and only took part in races 3 and 4, they were awarded 5 points for each race they missed.
Racing finishes on “Super Sunday” with more breeze on the way . . . and hopefully fully working boats.
