SailGP Portsmouth Review - Matt Sheahan reports from the sell out event

This season, your turn your back for a minute and another event has set up shop in the Solent. Except this time it was the biggest circus of all that was rolling into town as SailGP arrived in Portsmouth. The excitement and tension were palpable. From the pressure of public expectation on Sir Ben Ainslie's home team Emirates Great Britain, through to the huge pressure on the organisers to deliver a breathtaking event in the face of the kind of volatile and uncertain weather forecast that frequently defines the British summer, the Emirates Sail Grand Prix had plenty riding on it. And, as 20,000 spectators arrived over the weekend the pressure only went one way. Matt Sheahan was there and reports on a spectacular event, as well as sitting down with SailGP founder and CEO Russell Coutts who set out a bold new technical future for SailGP. Chapters & Links 00:00 Intro 1:00 Setting the scene 02:39 Talking to Dylan Fletcher 04:46 French dismasting - Quentin Delapierre explains 06:01 Race Reports 1,2,3,4 08:23 Russell Coutts on technical developments 16:40 Day 2 Race Reports 5, 6, 7 19:14 Final 20:32 Interviews - Burling, Fletcher, Mills Facebook - @planetsail.org Website - www.planetsail.co.uk Linkedin - www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-sheahan Instagram - matthewsheahan