2019 SailGP championship

The 2019 SailGP Championship was the first season of the SailGP championship, and was won by the Australian team.

Entries

The series had six teams enter, all of which competed in all rounds.

Team	Helmsman	Rounds
Australia Australia SailGP Team	Australia Tom Slingsby	All
China China SailGP Team	New Zealand Phil Robertson	All
France France SailGP Team	France Billy Besson	All
United Kingdom Great Britain SailGP Team	United Kingdom Dylan Fletcher	All
Japan Japan SailGP Team	Australia Nathan Outteridge	All
United States United States SailGP Team	United States Rome Kirby	All
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Calendar

The season was contested over five rounds, of which all but one were won by the Australian team.

Rnd	Host	Title	Dates	Winning team
TEST	Australia Sydney, Australia	Sydney Sail Grand Prix	February 15–16	Australia Australia
1	United States San Francisco, USA	San Francisco Sail Grand Prix	May 4–5	Australia Australia
2	United States New York City, USA	New York Sail Grand Prix	June 21–22	Japan Japan
3	United Kingdom Cowes, England (Isle of Wight)	Coews Sail Grand Prix	August 10–11	Australia Australia
4	France Marseille, France	Marseille Sail Grand Prix	September 20–22	Australia Australia
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Season

Round 1: Sydney

Pos	Team	1	2	3	4	5	F
1	Australia Australia	4	1	1	1	1	1
2	Japan Japan	1	2	2	2	3	2
3	United Kingdom Great Britain	3	4	4	3	5
4	China China	2	6	6	6	2
5	France France	DNF	5	3	4	4
6	United States United States	5	3	5	5	6

Round 2: San Francisco

Pos	Team	United States SFN
1	2	3	4	5	F
1	Australia Australia	2	2	3	3	1	1
2	Japan Japan	1	1	1	2	4	2
3	United Kingdom Great Britain	3	4	2	1	2
4	United States United States	4	3	4	4	3
5	France France	5	6	6	5	5
6	China China	6	5	5	6	6

Round 3: New York

Pos	Team	1	2	3	4	5	F
1	Japan Japan	2	1	1	1	2	1
2	Australia Australia	1	2	2	2	3	2
3	United States United States	4	4	5	4	1
4	China China	3	5	3	5	6
5	France France	5	3	4	6	5
6	United Kingdom Great Britain	6	6	6	3	4

Round 4: Cowes

Pos	Team	1	2	3
1	Australia Australia	1	1	1
2	Japan Japan	2	3	3
3	China China	3	2	4
4	France France	4	5	2
5	United States United States	6	4	5
6	United Kingdom Great Britain	5	6	6

Event shortened due to extreme weather

Round 5: Marseille

Pos	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Australia Australia	2	1	2	1	2	2
2	Japan Japan	1	4	1	2	3	1
3	China China	5	3	5	3	1	4	2
4	France France	4	5	4	4	6	3	1
5	United Kingdom Great Britain	3	2	3	6	4	6	4
6	United States United States	6	6	6	5	5	5	3

Grand Final: Marseille

Pos	Team	F
1	Australia Australia	1
2	Japan Japan	2

Results

Points were awarded per race, with 10 points for the winner, 9 points for second place, 8 points for third, and so on.

Each event hosted multiple races, with the two highest scoring teams after each round facing off one-on-one. The winner of that final race won the event. The two highest scoring teams at the end of the season competed in Marseille with the winning team awarded the championship.

Pos	Team	Australia SYD	United States SFN	United States NYC	United Kingdom COW	France MAR	France FIN	Points
Pos Team Australia SYD United States SFN United States NYC United Kingdom COW France MAR France FIN Points 1 Australia Australia 1 1 2 1 1 1 229 2 Japan Japan 2 2 1 2 2 2 223 3 China China 4 6 4 3 3 171 4 United Kingdom Great Britain 3 3 6 5 5 169 5 France France 5 5 5 6 4 164 6 United States United States 6 4 3 5 6 163 Citations:	Key Colour Result 1 Winner 2 Second place 3 Third place 4–6 Finish DNF Did not finish DNS Did not start DSQ Disqualified WH Withheld from racing C Race cancelled
1	Australia Australia	1	1	2	1	1	1	229
2	Japan Japan	2	2	1	2	2	2	223
3	China China	4	6	4	3	3		171
4	United Kingdom Great Britain	3	3	6	5	5		169
5	France France	5	5	5	6	4		164
6	United States United States	6	4	3	5	6		163
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Colour	Result
1	Winner
2	Second place
3	Third place
4–6	Finish
DNF	Did not finish
DNS	Did not start
DSQ	Disqualified
WH	Withheld from racing
C	Race cancelled