{"id":352695,"date":"2025-08-17T22:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352695\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:29:35","slug":"germany-sail-grand-prix-france-sailgp-team-claimed-their-first-grand-prix-event-win-of-2025-sailweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352695\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Sail Grand Prix \u2013 France SailGP Team claimed their first Grand Prix event win of 2025 \u2013 Sailweb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \tThe France SailGP Team claimed their first Grand Prix event win of the 2025 Season<\/p>\n<p>They bounced back from near-disaster in practice to beat the Australian BONDS Flying Roos and Emirates GBR in an action-packed winner-takes-all Final.<\/p>\n<p>On the 2025 Season leaderboard Tom Slingsby and Australia are tied on points with and Peter Burling and New Zealand 61 each. While Emirates GBR with 58 pts move into third ahead of Diego Botin\u2019s Spain on 56 pts now fourth. France are fifth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The win for Quentin Delapierre and the France SailGP Team<\/strong> came after the team\u2019s rudder broke in practice, they also missed out on last month\u2019s Emirates Great Britain Sail Grand Prix when the team\u2019s wingsail snapped just moments before racing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emirates GBR also showed grit and resilience,<\/strong> dominating with back-to-back wins in fleet races 5 and 6 less than 24 hours after a shocking collision appeared to put the team\u2019s weekend in the balance.<\/p>\n<p>Driver Dylan Fletcher said: \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t believe it \u2013 an absolutely unbelievable effort to ensure our team could race today, so this really goes out to them.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-58172 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SailGP-Germany-Leaderboard-day-2-17082025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"799\" height=\"388\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Only three stops to go until the Rolex Championship\u2019s Grand Final in Abu Dhabi, all attention turns to next month\u2019s European double-header in Saint-Tropez (12-13 September) and Geneva (20-21 September).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-58173 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/SailGP-2025-Leaderboard-after-GER-17082025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"393\"  \/>2025 Positions after German Grand Prix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The France SailGP Team claimed their first Grand Prix event win of the 2025 Season They bounced back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-352695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115046474527571977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}