\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \tSpain\u2019s Los Gallos SailGP Team damaged both board cases during a gybe in the second practice race for the Oracle Perth Sail Grand Prix.<\/p>\n
No athletes were injured but the impact caused major damage to the boat\u2019s foils and hull, forcing the Spanish team to retire from racing and seek urgent assistance.<\/p>\n
SailGP\u2019s Tech Team recovered the boat and are carrying out a full investigation to determine the extent of the damage to see if they can race this weekend or not.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u201cWe obviously made a big effort to minimize the damage from the race course to the shore and now it\u2019s all in the hands of the Tech Team\u201d<\/p>\n The sold out Oracle Perth Sail Grand Prix will kick off the Rolex SailGP 2026 Season this weekend in Fremantle.<\/p>\n Viewing is an early morning job for Brits with the first start at 05:00 hrs GB (13:00 hrs AUS) on 17 and 18 January, and I will be reporting it here on Sailweb.co.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain\u2019s Los Gallos SailGP Team damaged both board cases during a gybe in the second practice race for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-698221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115900577378998798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698221","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=698221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Driver Diego Botin said . . .<\/strong> \u201cIn the middle of the gybe, during the turn, the board case snapped and we had quite a big crash. The board case is damaged, the board is damaged and also the hull.\u201d<\/p>\n