2024 ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix | Day 2

[@zoepaulastrassfield2664]

And that was worth the wait! What a great day of racing! Thank you SailGP-- for being responsible yesterday and for putting on a great show today. See you in New York!

[@ignacioarocena9377]

Q

[@dulls8475]

were you paid to write that? Link to sail gp?

[@zoepaulastrassfield2664]

No, I’m not connected to SailGP and if you look through my comments I’ve criticized them plenty of times in the past- I don’t like the use of “driver” or “km/s”, I don’t like the low-wind petrostate events, and I think this weekend should have been in Auckland. But when SailGP is at its best, I love it, and today was SailGP at its best.

[@dulls8475]

@@zoepaulastrassfield2664 I say stuff the dolphin. My pet hate is how they fake being clean and green.

[@wayne5022]

@@dulls8475 I would assert that many would say: "Stuff you and your irrelevant opinions/comments."

[@uliw.8586]

Congrats to NZL !! Excellent sailing, impressive. But also great sailing from France, Spain teams !

[@ricalina4371]

It‘s so fantastic to be able to see the races like that. Thank you! 🙏

[@SailGP]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tomcochrane8767]

Great to see the NZL team winning due excellent sailing over the fleet races and not just processions from the start. Well done the BLACK FOILS. Great day of racing!

[@jamesaron1967]

Congrats to NZ for a well-earned win! All the drama and intensity made up for yesterday's disappointment. Great racing everyone!

[@bandido27440]

very well sailed by NZL! great performance at home :)

[@richardmatatahi4563]

Wow now the Black foils lead the way in the Championship well done, keep pushing it guys and keep building. Bad luck Australia ain't over yet.

[@SailGP]

Just got to make the top three for San Francisco! All to play for still 🙌

[@wakaroawaata1586]

THAT WAS EXCITING AS HECK.

[@SailGP]

🙌

[@bradclifton5248]

Great to see that smart minimum maneuver sailing. Little bit of home ground knowledge. Cleaning up. Black foils- red socks

[@HaysClark]

Great race! One of the most fun races I've watched.

[@mongolwarrior999]

What a loss for Australia! Impressive race from Spain though! Nice win for New Zealand :)

[@jeffcondell]

Congrats to the Black Foils!

[@skylarking12]

Did Canfield just fall asleep or is the USA boat broken in some way?

[@ReneLutz]

congrats to the Kiwi's from Swittzerland!

[@Cognitive.Dissident]

Almost had it Canada!

[@AngusMcIntyre]

Did GBRs boat break in race 3? They went backwards very fast

[@vincencohan3626]

Lot of practice make it perfect. Go kiwis. Road to Americas cup 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@TheoSmith249]

Race 1 finish @16:40, Race 2 finish @40:40, Race 3 finish @59:59 Final finish @1:22:40

[@keremsify]

great day, thank you very much. the commentators are always speaking more in favor of new zealand and australia - always ..

[@FrancoisTCS]

Well done France, nice races

[@zoepaulastrassfield2664]

Yeah, they were amazing today. Everyone was hyping up Pete and Phil, but Quentin was on fire.

[@TontonMacoute]

When will GB get a good start? Ever?

[@johnmartin7158]

In September hopefully.

[@johnmcanulty7341]

Black Foils Matter! Great Job NZ!

[@EFathers]

Wow best racing ever

[@ImpmanPDX]

There will be many a shoey had in NZ after this lol

[@alasdairduncan3]

What happened to the penalty points for the crashes in Race 1?

[@SailGP]

After Day 2 of the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix Denmark lost 8 event points and 4 season points, whilst Australia were deducted 12 event points and 8 season points!

[@bradclifton5248]

Nathan Outterigdge- The Chamelian

[@honahwikeepa2115]

Watch out for the Taniwha. He'll bite your Raho.

[@lesleyanderson6553]

why is it that i had to wait until today in Australia to see the full racing of day two?

[@greenstripeypaint]

Great racing. Please don't show onboards or close ups at crosses and crucial moments.

[@DeadEyeDave]

Is Canfield awake?

[@SoaaJr]

hahahaha thats my team🎉👊🏽 Team Nz

[@sweetkiwipie1569]

A few signs up around the city wouldn't hurt anyone would have loved to watch this in my own city especially being international teams racing fuks me off lol

[@MattCummings-bg9yk]

Can the USA get a skipper who can figure out how to start? 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Pulsar-m6f]

Actually, if you notice, Canfield has been doing better than Spithill on the starts. Much better. The problem lays in the first upwind leg in this regatta. For whatever reason he kept going far left and would drop major places every time he did it. Couldn't tell if it was angle, boatspeed, boathandling, but thye'd leave the screen in 3rd or 4th and come back in 7th or 8th or 9th. Guy is a great sailor though. Don't let the frustration with the Spithill era splash over onto this new crew. Give them time to figure it out.

[@MattCummings-bg9yk]

Just wish he would stop getting hung out to dry on the outside, maybe try to get down to the pin end once in a while.

[@CrazyChileanCanuck]

Great race but legit what is up with the graphics? US were listed in first place for a while in the first race even though they were far behind and then not even showing the finish line?? I am watching this hours after the fact so even if it was corrected post broadcast. For trying to introduce sailing to a bigger audience having inconsistent graphics is not helping if anything makes it confusing for new comers.

[@robwalton3686]

did anyone else notice Germany and Demark didn't round the mark that Aus had a fight with.

[@_JustinCider_]

It wasn't a mark they had to round at that point though. It was the finish line - just sitting there minding it's own business 'till the Aussies parked their boat on top of it.

[@luiscpb4158]

Nice

[@tsfullerton]

Ride-over-rider, 'Slingers' Tommy Slingsby gets slung-out. Picked-off by the mark. Cannibals ate him. Tongue-wavers. Cheers. Fix the boat.

[@AngusMcIntyre]

Slingsby in fierce competition with Robertson for the 'mark destroyer' badge. Why ate thise things in the middle of the course...

[@DoveWrestler]

the finish line?

[@tomgruitt6563]

Did do nine?

[@michaelchalabian3307]

Couldn’t get past the introduction music

[@nickg7]

The course designers need to learn from their mistake. They put Aus, Canada & NZ in that position. Fortunately the Australian's chose the lesser of two evils.

[@Albert_Br]

Australian put itself in that position, not the course designers. They knew they didn't have right of way but still pushed at the Canadians then had to avoid.

[@nickg7]

@@Albert_Br That could be true too

[@nickg7]

Sail GP is great though

[@lakermannz8416]

Compare this racing to that of Abu Dhabi. Chalk and cheese. Give me this racing any day.

[@Albert_Br]

Light wind sailing is a skill within itself. The Dubai race was a thriller. Three boats arriving at the finish at the same time.

[@SVAdarris]

racing was quite good this time, but listening to the 3 airheads is painful. please stop yelling and making up things, unbearable

[@tobiasash]

Dear SailGP, Can someone please teach Todd Harris how to pronounce Grand Prix correctly please? We would all be extremely grateful. Cheers, The whole sailing community

[@ElSwissCanardo]

First Race, Switzerland going to P2 to P7, they have a penalty. NOT ONE Word from commentray. Why? Those commentators are the worst

[@bashab3098]

The Black Foils , really .

[@kevinansley7353]

Done to death, no imagination whatever.

[@chetstevensq]

US boat is an embarrassment to sailing. No wonder we can't win an America's Cup anymore.

[@Evanseys]

Either shut up, or cut the on board feeds. Far too much going on, so we can't make head or tail of anything!

[@ecsimonson1]

one annourcer is horrible.

[@Dr.rothmann]

Wtf are you doing DK........😅😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨

[@derektrips]

The only team the Americans can beat is a team not racing! Go USA!

[@brandedfireball7822]

Please loose that horrendous rap jingle... Do you know who your target audience is ?

[@AngusMcIntyre]

Their target is 'da kids init'. But reality is..... different

[@zoepaulastrassfield2664]

White-haired old male yachties in blazers and monocles? Sorry, but SailGP is trying to expand beyond that traditional audience.

[@AngusMcIntyre]

@@zoepaulastrassfield2664 into the gangster audience

[@benisrood]

​​@@zoepaulastrassfield2664 That *is* the sailing audience and always will be. Incidentally, that audience has spending capability and is also the advertiser's target demographic. I'm not in this demographic, too poor and not quite old enough, but please, shove your "pale and stale" sentiments.

[@ashentmariner]

Iam'ma so glad two have X'd Yu'r insurance, makes itt much more funn, lik'a fresh aire Kidd's, yepper's, real racing family,. Cheer's! Ash'ent Mariner, An'na The Troglodyte's Down'Under ❤

[@markmessner4554]

The US Is embarrassing

[@Chris.Davies]

Lack of VMG continues to hurt the series badly. Your viewers are not stupid, so why treat us like we're dumb? :( You could even have the commentators continuously refer to it as "Velocity Made Good" - you know, to explain the graphical acronym. Once you have heard those three words, you do not need to know any more. It is entirely self-explanatory. Like "Kilometres Per Hour".

[@SV-Valhalla]

Congratulations NZ. At this point can USA just hang up the sails and call it quits. This is embarrassing!!!

[@Albert_Br]

There learning. From that comes winning.

[@brianwhetton9621]

Well done Team NZ; best for all your future races. To the French; REMEMBER THE RAINBOW WARRIOR ! Just a reminder that the only person to damage the "America's Cup" was a Maori :(

[@DrSchweitzer]

Why are New Zealanders suddenly being called "black foils"? They all have black foils.

[@TheoSmith249]

They are not being called black foils by anyone legitimate. Possibly you have been hearing a twit.

[@StevenDrewitt]

Just a branding exercise, most NZ sports teams are "Black ..." The All Blacks have been the national rugby team for over 120 years based on their Black uniform and an error after describing the whole team playing like they are all backs. Other sports have over time followed suit. Cricket - Blackcaps; Basketball - Tall Blacks; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_national_team_nomenclature_based_on_the_%22All_Blacks%22 The unfortunate one was the badminton team.

[@salparadiso]

The Black Foils? Shouldn't it be The Black Cats? Or are they superstitious?

[@Aran2323]

VMG please and thank you. Also you NEED to sort out the poor quality of the helicopter shots. I've seen better video from Ukrainian drones in a warzone.

[@richardpiggins2936]

Kiwis, Kiwis, Kiwis thats all we hear. Canada is very competitive but even leading they focus on the damn Kiwis. Enough already!!!

[@Chris-eq3en]

Canada would be nothing without their kiwi skipper, get over yourself 😢

[@nathanbombardo]

Canada boat lead by a Kiwi. So even if Canadas winnings, ya still gonna hear kiwi. Cry harder

[@Innerlight320]

How many dolphins were sacrificed for this , choosing a marine sanctuary to race idiotic

[@BlacksBeachBoogieBurner]

Was course designed poorly with the finish mark location, Australia colliding with it? Or does Australia just have bad karma in New Zealand?? 😮

[@Chris-eq3en]

Bad Karma in NZ 😂

[@Albert_Br]

Australian put itself in that position, not the course designers. They knew where the mark was and they knew they didn't have right of way but still pushed at the Canadians then had to avoid them.

[@BlacksBeachBoogieBurner]

Slingsby was on the team that beat Barker and the Kiwis at the SF America's Cup 😊

[@Chris-eq3en]

@@BlacksBeachBoogieBurner but he did not win for Australia because they had nothing to sail 😄

[@Albert_Br]

@@BlacksBeachBoogieBurner So. Everyone knows Team Oracle only won because of modifications they made to the boat. At an Americas Cup where only one contender was allowed.

[@robinmalina2645]

disappointment of management of this course and race looks the most horrible in Sail GP history.. Getting more just dangerous show than sailing...

[@Chris-eq3en]

Oh so you like snail pace racing? Go away.

[@CarraroAlberto]

Great fleet races, super boring final.

[@StoolieP]

Meh.

[@SailFlyTri]

Are you sure there were no “ mammals on the course” and can you assure the “public” that no mammals were harmed or frightened by the dangerous sailboats during the making of this content? 😂. So ridiculous. SO RIDICULOUS. This event was already getting a little stale, but waiting around for 2 hours because of a “mammal” on the course? Remind me to never buy a ticket to see this crap live. I’m down to highlights, and even that is boring.

[@jameslittle8891]

Yet you say you’ll continue to watch and then you take time from your day to post a whinge!

[@DoveWrestler]

My understanding is that considerations had to be made because they are conducting a race in a sanctuary for an endangered species. Great course for sailing and spectating, but the understanding was/is that the Hector's Dolphins take priority over racing. I'm sure you understand that the speed and shape of the foils and especially rudder could be very harmful to marine life.

[@benisrood]

Hector's Dolphins are a native, protected species with low numbers. It's fine to hold this race in another venue in New Zealand.

[@Albert_Br]

Writing in capitals "SO RIDICULOUS" doesn't make your point any more significant. I cant agree that Day 2 was "a little stale". It was worth the wait.

[@johnmartin7158]

And yet according to you, you voluntarily tortured yourself.