06/13/2026
by James Pacheco
If you missed the action at the Apex Group Bermuda Sail Grand Prix this weekend, here’s your recap of what happened, what it means for the Rolex SailGP Championship standings, plus the latest odds on who’s going to win it.
BONDS Flying Roos SailGP Team Go Back-to-Back in Bermuda
The BONDS Flying Roos SailGP Team went back-to-back, following up their magnificent performance at the ENEL Rio Sail Grand Prix with an almost equally impressive one at the Apex Group Bermuda Sail Grand Prix.
Tom Slingsby and his crew didn’t quite meet the dizzy heights of four race wins in a day as they did on that Sunday in Rio, but here in Great Sound, they did match the four race wins they got at Gaunabara Bay, just in a more spread-out fashion.
And of course, they won the one that really mattered, taking Sunday’s winner-takes-all Final ahead of Los Gallos SailGP Team in second and the Germany SailGP Team Presented by Deutsche Bank in third.
Aussies Flex Their Muscles But US SailGP Team Win Race 1 At Big Odds
By winning the Bermuda event, the Aussies justified their status as pre-event favorites. In the first of our event previews, we asked the question whether the price of 3.45 on them taking the event win was short enough after what happened in Rio.
In hindsight, the answer is ‘no’; it should have been shorter, but then again, being quite so dominant once again is for the select few.
They were as short as 1.2 to make the final, which they obviously did, and also justified their favoritism when taking Race 2 at odds of 4.0.
In winning Sunday’s big final, that was the 13th race this season in which Slingsby has led his team to victory.
But before all that, Race 1 was won by the US SailGP Team after they went into it at odds of 15.38, the eighth-biggest price among the 12 teams taking part.
A reminder for SailGP punters that, despite the BONDS Flying Roos being in rare form of late and winning both fleet races and events as favorites over the past few weeks, big-priced winners do still happen.
Aussies Shorten In the Championship Betting, Everyone Else Lengthens
Though Los Gallos had also been fancied to put in a strong showing in Bermuda, the Germans not so much, and you could have got odds of 9.09 on them to make that final.
The win has seen Slingsby and co cut in the betting to win the overall Rolex SailGP Championship. They were available at odds of 2.1 before Bermuda, but yet another event win, their third of the season, has caused the bookies to have a rethink.
With 45 points on the board, they’ve now built up a lead of 10 points over the Emirates GBR SailGP Team and are 11 points clear of Los Gallos in third.
While the Aussies have now been slashed to 1.73, the Brits have gone the other way in the betting and are now 4.5 with Diego Botin’s Los Gallos 6.5 and the US SailGP Team, who finished seventh here in Bermuda, available at 9.0.
Should Slingsby’s Roos Be Even Shorter For the Championship?
Such is the recent form of the BONDS Flying Roos that it’s not foolish to question whether that 1.73 isn’t a good price.
To some, it will be, but it’s worth remembering that a lot can happen between now and the end of the season in Abu Dhabi in late November.
We’ve already seen injuries play their part in the SailGP Championship this season, and even this weekend, we witnessed stand-in wing trimmer Glenn Ashby being replaced at the DS Automobiles SailGP Team France by the BONDS Flying Roos’ Tom Needham on Saturday and David Gilmour from Artemis on Sunday.
After Ashby suffered an injury, Needham stepped in to make sure the French could race rather than having to pull out. A key injury somewhere along the lines could make a big difference.
Then, of course, there’s always the possibility that an F50 is damaged to the point that it can’t take to the water. Just ask Peter Burling’s Black Foils SailGP Team about that possibility after a bad crash at the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix in Auckland ruled his team out of that event, Sydney, Rio and now Bermuda, as his catamaran continues to be repaired. An unlikely scenario, but it does happen.
One-Off Final Just Adds To the Drama
And finally, it’s worth remembering that the Rolex SailGP Championship is ultimately decided by the outcome of a one-off race, the Grand Final, contested by the Top 3 in the standings, at the end of the Mudabala Abu Dhabi Sail Grand Prix 2026 Season Grand Final Presented by Abu Dhabi Sports Council.
Even if Slingsby and his team are 30 points clear of the other two going into the Grand Final, it won’t count for anything if the BONDS Flying Roos get it wrong in that one.
But that’s all a long way away, and next up we have the Mubadala New York Sail Grand Prix starting on May 30. The Aussies couldn’t make it three in a row, could they?
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