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  • 09/07/2025
SailGP 2025 / Serait-ce le plus grand événement SailGP à ce jour. Aperçu de Portsmouth par Stevie Morrison

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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30And then tactically, well, there's going to be opportunities for the teams to make overtakes, to sort of lock down leads and put on a show for the fans.
00:41Well, July in Great Britain, we can get great sunny conditions, which will draw in a real sea breeze on that Portsmouth seafront there.
00:48And that can be sort of 14, 15 knots.
00:50Depending on the tidal conditions, that could give a real choppy sea state for the crews out there.
00:55And the sea breeze is never totally steady, so there'll be some wind shifts.
00:58It means there's going to be action right on the shore.
01:00The downwind end of the course will be literally on the beach in front of the fans there in the stadium, which is going to be pretty dramatic.
01:07And there will be overtakes.
01:08There'll be opportunities for the crews, and they're going to have to push the F50s hard.
01:12In terms of trying to see the action down there in Portsmouth, well, there's going to be so many different options.
01:17From the moments the F50s are craned in, you're going to be able to see that.
01:20The whole seafront will have access to seeing them from the water.
01:23And I think when you actually see an F50 in real life, it's surprising how big they are.
01:27It's staggering how fast they're going.
01:29So I think trying to catch a glimpse of them will be pretty spectacular.
01:32And then, of course, we're going to come into the ticketed area.
01:34There's going to be that grandstand on the seafront there.
01:37And anyone that watched the racing in New Zealand, well, it looked pretty amazing with that big grandstand behind it.
01:42The grandstand's going to be bigger in Portsmouth.
01:44We want to fill it.
01:45We want to make sure it's the biggest ever crowd for a live sailing event that we've seen.
01:49And hopefully we can make that happen.
01:53The last time we were in the Solent in Season 1, we raced out of Cows.
01:57And that was another option for a British summer day.
02:00It was 20 to 25 knots.
02:02It was grey skies.
02:03It was heavy wind.
02:04We saw capsizes.
02:05We saw boats being pushed to the absolute limit.
02:08Pure drama.
02:09Sailors happened to actually back off and not use the full power that these F50s can provide.
02:13It was dramatic and it was really action-packed.
02:16But, of course, Season 5, the sailors know how to push the boats faster.
02:20They know how to push them harder.
02:21And we only had six boats then.
02:22Now we've got 12.
02:24And I think that's going to lead to some serious action off the front in Portsmouth.

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