The Spain SailGP Team met expectations and entered its first end of the season, where it came to dream of victory after a magnificent departure

Spain began its journey in this 2026 season of the Rolex SailGP Championship with a valuable third place, on a weekend marked by the strong wind. The team piloted by Diego Botín broke into the end of Sunday with some suspense, and was about to take his first victory of the year. On this second day of the ITM New Zealand Sail Grand Prix, the competition implemented, for the first time in its history, a new format of competition with divided fleet, with the idea of ensuring the show in a narrow race field marked by the strong wind slopes.

With New Zealand and France out of play after yesterday's accident, the Spain SailGP Team needed to control the push of its immediate pursuers: Britain, Sweden and Denmark. The British, however, were lucky enough to fall into the same group as Galos and Kiwis - already eliminated - along with other more affordable rivals, and added two easy victories that assured their presence in the final

Spain, for its part, suffered more than expected to do so. In the fourth manga, the first of the day, the Spanish team could not compete due to a technical failure in the F50 that did not use the foils. The Cocks faced the last and decisive fleet race with the need to stay ahead of Swedish and Danish to enter the final. But in such scenarios, charged with pressure, it is where the Spain SailGP Team is best developed, which is retracted in time to add a third vital position in that sleeve.

The Spaniards measured in a final match the almighty Bond Flying Roos (AUS) - three times world champions - and Emirates GBR... the Spain SailGP Team tried it until the last sigh, but it ended up giving in and being overcome even in the last buoy by the British