Overview

• Peter Burling’s New Zealand team secured their second event win of the season by outpacing Dylan Fletcher’s Emirates GBR in a winner-takes-all final at Portsmouth.
• The victory propelled New Zealand to 54 points atop the SailGP leaderboard, overtaking Australia and Spain as the championship enters its mid-season stretch.
• Emirates GBR had led after a dominant opening day performance but remain without a home victory since the league’s inception.
• Switzerland reached their first-ever SailGP final this weekend but were sidelined by a technical fault in the decider.
• France recovered from an early race interruption caused by a spectator boat and technical woes to capture a triumph in Race 6.