SailGP 2025 / Qu'est-ce qui fait un départ PARFAIT en finale de SailGP

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00:00Je vais faire un peu de tactiques qui peuvent gagner ou gagner en l'event final.

00:03C'est très très très très très duré, je ne peux pas faire ça.

00:06Oh my days.

00:08Le plus fondamental pour obtenir un bon start est être en train de faire comme ça,

00:12en temps, et en tirant la fin de l'air de la ligne de l'air de la ligne

00:15qui fait la distance à la ligne 1.

00:18Nous allons de passer ici à Dubai.

00:20Perfect, de Berling, de la fin de la ligne.

00:22C'est un start de la Blackfoils.

00:26Oh, c'est perfect de Fletcher, c'est perfect de Slingsby,

00:29mais Slingsby's got the faster angle in to mark one.

00:33Oh, what a start.

00:34Fletcher's at absolute speed on the inside.

00:37So this was decision time for Tom Slingsby.

00:39He's leading the boats back into the start box.

00:42One more manoeuvre to do

00:43before he judges his run into the start line.

00:46The advantage of being in the lead,

00:47well, you get to dictate how the start's gonna play out

00:50and that's classic Tom Slingsby.

00:51He loves to be the one making the decision

00:54and letting other people react.

00:55He turned back too early

00:57and you've got what's called time to kill.

00:59So you know if you sailed at full speed,

01:01you'd be early for the line.

01:02Well, your only option there is to slow down

01:04and if you slow down,

01:05it gives those boats opportunity behind

01:08to come and attack you.

01:10Right now, Slingsby's the defender.

01:12Giles Scott on board the Canadian boat, he's attacking.

01:15And right at the moment where the two boats

01:17are on a collision course,

01:18which is coming up to us here on the screen right now,

01:21Australia needs to start avoiding.

01:23Slow to react by Slingsby

01:25and that was there the moment he got the penalty

01:27and they were tight together.

01:28They've been affecting each other.

01:29If we pause the action here

01:31and we see how early those two boats are

01:33compared to the British boat,

01:34they're gonna have to go pretty slow

01:36in these last few moments to the start line.

01:39Fletcher, well, he's got space.

01:41He knows he's on a good time run for the start line.

01:43He's got a big gap in the middle of the fleet

01:46and he winds it up.

01:47He starts to aim straight at the line,

01:49straight towards mark one

01:51and his wing, his trimmers, the whole crew on board

01:54are calling good timing, good timing.

01:56So when that line does turn white,

01:58he hits it at full speed right in the middle of the fleet.

02:01But the crucial factor for Fletcher was he was going fast

02:04and that was because he wasn't too early

02:07turning back towards the start line.

02:10Let's go back to the moment Canada engage with Australia.

02:14We can see Canada turn their boat.

02:16They're on a collision course with Australia.

02:18Closest to the wind, so they're the giveaway boat

02:21in this situation.

02:22Seems we've got two options.

02:23He's hoping to get round in front of Giles Scott,

02:26the Canadian boat,

02:27to keep his options open on the start line.

02:29But he's got a huge area he could turn up into

02:32away from Giles Scott.

02:33He could take that right turn,

02:35head away from the Canadian boat and keep the gap open.

02:38He's compromised,

02:39but it's gotta be better to avoid a penalty if he can,

02:42because by taking that penalty,

02:44he loses any chance of an equal start

02:46and means he's definitely gonna have to start the race behind

02:49and he's on the back foot.

02:51Well, things were happening fast here in Sydney

02:54and as we now can see, the two boats are overlapped.

02:56What does that mean?

02:57Well, it means the Canadian boat's alongside.

02:59It's just got the front of its boat

03:01past the back of the Australian boat.

03:03They're overlapped.

03:04They're also now on a collision course

03:06and as soon as you're on a collision course,

03:08you've got to keep clear as the giveaway boat.

03:10Racing rules of sailing say the boat's closest to the wind,

03:13we call it the windward boat, is the giveaway boat.

03:16So Slingsby knows he's gotta keep clear,

03:18but looking through his eyes,

03:21does he think they're overlapped?

03:22They're travelling at nearly 70, 75 kilometres an hour here.

03:26The boat's some 20, 30 metres away from each other.

03:30The front of Giles Scott's boat is 15, 17 metres away

03:33from where he sits in the boat.

03:35So to judge where the front of that boat is

03:37is really hard at these speeds.

03:39Slingsby was hoping he wasn't overlapped in the umpire booth.

03:43Well, they're looking from directly above.

03:45They've got that helicopter 2D view

03:47that's accurate to about a centimetre out there.

03:50So they can see all of this detail

03:53coming really, really quickly onto their screen.

03:55They see it in very black and white

03:56and on the water, well, there's a lot of other things to see.

03:59So those minutity can easily be missed.

04:01But right now, Slingsby's a little bit too aggressive.

04:04He needs to start taking avoiding action from Giles Scott,

04:07or be very confident he can get across in front of him.

04:11He couldn't get across in front.

04:12He didn't take any avoiding action until too late.

04:15And that was deemed to be too risky.

04:18Big chance for collision.

04:19Canada had to avoid that collision,

04:21so the penalty was dished out to Slingsby.

04:23He could have avoided it with a turn away

04:25from Canada a lot earlier

04:26and given himself the chance to start that race level.

04:29Here we go.

04:30One.

04:31Hey, racing.

04:32Protest it, Eddie.

04:33Here's subject, big A's for racing.

04:34Racing, racing.

04:35Canada have decided to turn back to the start quite earlier,

04:38a similar time to Australia.

04:39They put themselves into fairly direct competition

04:43with the Australians.

04:44Now, in this situation, rules-wise,

04:46no real risk on the Canadians.

04:48But as soon as you're distracted by another boat,

04:51you're getting yourself too close to the line too soon

04:54to have a chance to give a big acceleration.

04:56We can see on the right-hand side of them,

04:58Great Britain quite well behind.

05:00No one else other than themselves to think about

05:03from a timing perspective back towards the start line.

05:05So rules-wise, there was no risk on Canada

05:08in this situation, really.

05:09They were the right-of-way boat.

05:11Australia were the ones that needed to keep clear.

05:13But as soon as you're in a direct battle with the Australians,

05:16you're sailing back towards the line too fast, too early,

05:20and you're limiting your options for later in the start.

05:26What a start.

05:27Fletcher's at absolute speed.

05:28On the inside, it's Canada.

05:30Emirates, Great Britain are gonna be able to lead

05:32at mark one here.

05:34This start, we can see all of the boats ended up lined up,

05:38much more similar timing back to the start line.

05:41So once again, Slingsby loves that move

05:43of being the first to turn back to the start.

05:45But we see all three boats turning back at a similar time.

05:49Plenty of respect out there on the start line in this one.

05:52Not too much boat-on-boat confrontation.

05:54All of them giving themselves a little bit of space.

05:56And of course, space is so key in this final run-in

06:00to be able to control your own destiny and your old timing.

06:02No boat too close together.

06:04Right, now it's just a race to hit that right-hand red line

06:08on the right-hand side of our screen there.

06:10Theoretically, Fletcher, optimally placed.

06:13Lined up for the pole position here.

06:14But we know that it's all about speed when the gun comes.

06:17So who can time their run at the start line fastest?

06:20They're all gonna have a straight line.

06:22Not too much boat-on-boat confrontation.

06:24But Fletcher a bit closer to the line at this moment.

06:26A little bit later to accelerate.

06:28And that's the difference in boat speed when the gun goes.

06:35Pretty much picture perfect from those first two boats

06:38into the line here, but a faster angle for Australia.

06:41Fletcher makes one last aggressive move.

06:43Windward boat must keep clear, of course.

06:45We've heard that one before, haven't we?

06:46But this time Slingsby does enough.

06:48Just.

06:49He's round the front.

06:50Leads at mark one.

06:51All the way down.

06:52All the way down.

06:53All the way down.

06:54All the way down.

06:56Let's freeze frame here and look back at the start.

06:58We can see on this start the boat is not too interactive.

07:01Not a very combative start here.

07:03And that's all to do with the set up of the start line.

07:05Often we see one position on the start.

07:08It's indicated there is the pole position on our start line.

07:11The blue triangles.

07:12But it won't be biased by much.

07:14So if you start there, you're gonna have less distance to mark one.

07:18If you start nearer the bottom of our screen to the upwind end of the start line,

07:22you've got a faster angle.

07:23And there's not a lot of difference there.

07:25So despite there being a pole position, there's not a lot in it.

07:28So all the crews have decided, let's not fight too hard.

07:31It's a windy day.

07:33Gusty.

07:33Hard to sail the boats here in New Zealand.

07:35And penalty points for any interactions can be really costly.

07:39We all know that from watching SailGP Racing.

07:42So all the boats decide, let's give ourselves some space.

07:45That space means it's just a race between them and the start line.

07:48We don't need to worry too much about the other boats.

07:51How well can we judge our timing as we turn towards the start line,

07:55wind the speed up, and look to hit that line at the moment it turns white at full speed.

08:02As soon as it's as windy as this, all the crews will be thinking,

08:04what's my safest angle to sail in?

08:06If I'm sailing too across the wind, can I handle the power of that?

08:10If I can turn a little bit away from the wind, I might be going faster.

08:13But again, can I fly the boat accurately at that high speed?

08:16For the British team, they would have been thinking right now,

08:19well, all things being equal, at least if I'm on the downwind end,

08:22I'm on the inside at turn one.

08:24That's one fact, one controllable thing I've got.

08:27The other boats have got to go fast enough to get right round me

08:30if they want to lead at mark one for Slingsby.

08:33Well, he's thinking, okay, I'm going to have the fastest angle.

08:35I'm just going to send my boat at mark one as absolutely flat out as I can,

08:40and trust flight controller Jason Waterhouse to keep me in the water.

08:43That's it from me with Risk and Reward.

08:47Look forward to bringing you another episode soon.

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