Australia has won the Cadiz Sail Grand Prix successful Spain aft a melodramatic time that saw 2 boats capsize successful windy conditions.
The winner-takes-all finale betwixt Australia, United States and Great Britain became a lottery aft the Ben Ainsle led Great Britain capsized early, astir taking retired Jimmy Spithill's US boat.
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"I deliberation we had the champion seats successful the location for Ben's capsize," said Australia's Tom Slingsby.
"They were going truthful speedy and past we saw them spell into a immense pitchpole close successful beforehand of us. We had to dodge Ben and past we saw Jimmy nosedive trying to debar the Brits, we had a infinitesimal going, is this contention inactive on?
"It was a crippled of endurance retired determination contiguous and I'm truly arrogant of our team. We were capable to enactment calm and collected during racing, which helped america to cognize erstwhile we needed to propulsion and backmost disconnected successful those tricky conditions."
A accordant play for the Australians - they lone won 1 contention anterior to the last but ne'er finished little than 4th - sees them connected apical of the standings aft six of the 8 rounds.
For the location federation it was a disastrous day. After taking retired contention 2 connected Saturday, Spain capsized connected Sunday, damaging the vessel beyond repair and forcing the squad to beryllium retired the last 2 races.
The bid continues successful Sydney successful December, with Slingsby promising a spectacular play of racing.
"The squad and I cannot hold to get backmost to Australia aft spending truthful galore months distant from home," helium said.
"Seeing 8 F50s racing connected Sydney harbour is going to beryllium epic and with the calibre of sailors that we person this year, it's going to beryllium enactment fuelled racing.
"We mislaid to Ben Ainsle's British squad past twelvemonth astatine the Sydney event, which was a pugnacious pill to swallow for our team. We managed to get our revenge, Beating him astatine his location lawsuit this twelvemonth successful Plymouth and present astatine this event. I tin accidental that each of our squad are precise focused connected delivering that aforesaid effect for Australia, successful beforehand of a location crowd."
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