SailGP returns to the iconic waters of Sydney Harbour this weekend and for the eight event of Season 4. Ahead of the event, SailGP's commentators Todd Harris, Stevie Morrison, and Emily Nagel break down the 3 Big Questions to set the scene for an exciting weekend of F50 racing down under.
Focusing on the race to third place, Nagel said the mid-fleet teams 'really have to pull it out the bag' in Sydney to be in with a chance of making San Francisco's winner-takes-all, Championship deciding Grand Final.
Highlighting ROCKWOOL DEN, the United States, Canada, France and Emirates GBR, Nagel said 'it's time they just start having a couple of good events - they don’t necessarily have to win but just to get into the top three, get some points on the board and move up the ladder a little bit.'
Morrison agreed, arguing the most pressure going into Sydney is on Taylor Canfield's United States, which have only experience light wind conditions so far.
"On the first day of Sydney, things are going to be happening real fast and changing real fast. Hopefully they can take the pressure off themselves from the result [in Abu Dhabi] and see it as a learning day, but that’s not how they’ve seemed to have approached SailGP so far - they’ve come in guns blazing."
All three commentators predicted a home victory for Tom Slingsby's Australia, with both Morrison and Nagel placing the Aussies in the Final alongisde New Zealand and ROCKWOOL DEN.
