Overview

• The fifth season’s eighth round runs on 16–17 August off Rügen with 5,700-seat grandstands and a concurrent Sail Sassnitz festival expecting about 20,000 visitors.
• Races will feature one-design F50 foiling catamarans that ‘fly’ at up to 100 km/h and leverage 125 sensors processing over 35,000 data points per second.
• Germany SailGP Team, co-founded by Thomas Riedel and Sebastian Vettel, arrives in 11th place after accruing a heavy penalty burden from early training collisions.
• For the first time, an inclusive sailing regatta will run alongside the SailGP event under the patronage of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern’s minister-president Manuela Schwesig.
• The league’s commercial momentum is underscored by celebrity backers such as Vettel and Kylian Mbappé, a $12 million prize pool and rising bids for future team licenses.