SailGP commentary pundits are divided on whether Ainslie’s SailGP Team will need to drop the softly, softly approach it has taken so far this season, and return to a more aggressive start line technique if they are to claim an event win in Plymouth this weekend
Ben Ainslie returns to competitive sailing in British waters at the helm of the Great Britain SailGP Team F50. To date Ainslie has only managed to win one SailGP event in nine event starts.
It’s been six years since Ainslie has raced in front of a home crowd. The last time was the Portsmouth America’s Cup events in 2015 and 2016, both of which were won by his all-British Land Rover BAR team
After two months of high-intensity competition that has taken seven talented Ocean Fifty trimaran skippers from the Mediterranean to France’s Atlantic coast, and then on to Cowes on the Isle of Wight, the outcome of the 2022 Pro Sailing Tour…
Ben Ainslie has fired warning shots at Tom Slingsby’s Australia SailGP Team ahead of the T-Mobile United States Sail Grand Prix Chicago at Navy Pier, describing the team’s confidence as a ‘huge motivator’
SailGP commentators Stevie Morrison, David ‘Freddie’ Carr and Todd Harris agreed the Black Flag was the correct repercussion for such a ‘reckless’ manoeuvre.
