00:00Almost a bit surreal that we're here on the eve of the first event.
00:07SailGP is more than just a sailboat race.
00:11This is the future of sailing.
00:15Larry Ellison and I started SailGP.
00:19To bring this whole sport to a new level of excitement,
00:22that's the whole goal.
00:24We race in 12 to 14 incredible locations around the world.
00:29Over a weekend of fantastic competition.
00:31So each Grand Prix weekend we have five fast-paced 12 to 15 minute fleet races over two days.
00:37Like a bullet out of a gun, what a start for the French.
00:40New Zealand are through.
00:42Can't, oh, they're not going to hold it over.
00:44Sailboats can't sail directly into the wind because it won't power their wing sails,
00:48so they zigzag up the course.
00:51You've got to find better wind.
00:53Teams have to round a number of market boys within a very tight boundary constraint.
00:57At the same time, they need to avoid collisions or vote-on-vote penalties.
01:02First vote across the finish wins.
01:04The Aussies claim the victory!
01:06The teams accumulate points for each race.
01:09Ten points for the winner, all the way down to one.
01:12The top three, they go into a top three final and first across the line wins the event.
01:19Australians get it done and get the win!
01:22Winner takes all for the weekend.
01:23Prize money is in the region of 400,000 US.
01:26And then at the end of the season, we have one final showdown, one race, 15 minutes, three boats.
01:32Winner takes all for $2 million.
01:34And second and third place, leave with nothing.
01:36People say, wow, this is nothing like the vision that I had when I was coming along to watch a sailboat race.
01:49It's high speed, it's action-packed.
01:51Okay, he's going to go!
01:52Go, he's going to go!
01:53For any championship to be successful, you really need a strong American team.
02:04We wanted Zale GP to bring out their best athletes in the world.
02:09So we had to get Jimmy Spittle.
02:12We knew he had a following in the US.
02:14And we knew that he would lead USA well.
02:18So he was a logical choice.
02:34I'm going to love.
02:43And we knew he was a person.
02:46And let's do the best.
02:48And then we knew he was a person.
02:50So we're going back and forth and being here.
02:52And we knew that he's going to be able to get in the US.
02:53And then we knew that he was a person.
02:56And we knew that he was a person.
02:57And we knew that they couldn't be a person.
02:59And we knew that he was a person.
03:01And he'd be like, for example, you know,
