00:00SailGP Insights takes a data lab to every Sail Grand Prix.
00:05This lab conceals the best kept secrets of SailGP's fleet.
00:10This room receives data from 1,300 sensors placed on board the F-50s.
00:18Teams can see each other's data,
00:21but only those who know what to look for will find the key to success.
00:26The best sailors in the world know this room as the Grand Prix Vault.
00:35Here we are at the end of Fleet Race 1 in Abu Dhabi Season 4
00:39and things are not looking good for the Spanish.
00:42After a bad start, they finish dead last.
00:45They need to up their game if they want to make Sunday's final ahead of the French,
00:50who they're just behind on the leaderboard.
00:53How can Diego Boutin turn this around?
00:56We've seen it time and time again.
00:59When a team starts this bad, they tend to have a really bad Grand Prix.
01:04Can Spain make the best use of the Oracle Cloud to overcome this result?
01:09Historically, they've struggled to make the best out of the data vault.
01:13The Spanish arrived in the container quite a few times before.
01:17The problem is that compared to the other teams,
01:20who had really specific questions,
01:22they were not as specific as yours,
01:24and we're kind of lost on using the data.
01:27Beginning of the season, they were going to the data container
01:30just asking them, how can we sail better?
01:32You tell us what to do. It's complicated.
01:35Race 2 and Spain need to turn this around and fast.
01:41We can see Simone on screen.
01:43He's having a sneak peek at the umpire app.
01:45He wants to be on the right side of the law in this race.
01:48Simone Salva is the new coach of Team Spain.
01:52He's been brought into the team because he understands the data in microscopic detail.
01:58And now Simone can assist his team from the newly created Coach's Pit Walk.
02:03How it used to be, coaches would go on the water.
02:06It's the worst environment to work in if you're trying to be data-driven.
02:10Basically, what we have now is three screens and a super, a great comm system.
02:16We can speak with the guys on board directly.
02:21They've got so much more information.
02:23They can see the race course, so they see what they would have seen on the water.
02:27Here we go into Fleet Race 2.
02:31Spain, last in the previous race.
02:34Now need to turn this around.
02:36This is where the chess game begins.
02:40It's super crowded in there and look where Spain is.
02:43Just behind a row of F50s.
02:45Canada, France, GBR, Germany and the USA.
02:49All of them blocking the way of the Spanish.
02:52How is Spain going to thread the needle?
02:54That's the million dollar question.
02:56There are quite a lot of situations where a helicopter view like the Amp-Up is better than being on board.
03:03Oh, you can tell it looks like Diego Bottin from Team Spain doesn't know where to go.
03:08During the start, we had the French.
03:10We were a bit faster than them and the comms that came from me was,
03:14OK, you are clear, you are clear and you can go.
03:18OK, so this is the problem that Spain has.
03:21The driver of Team Spain, Diego Bottin, has a clear corridor in front of him.
03:25But if he decides to go straight in between Switzerland and Canada, the Spanish will be at the mercy of the Swiss, who will be able to love them and destroy their staff.
03:34Oh, this is one of those calls that's going to be decided by centimetres or even millimetres.
03:41It's so tight.
03:43It was quite a close call because the guys on board were, I mean, Diego told me that he was not 100% sure.
03:49Sure.
03:50Do we have a team with Canadians?
03:51Come on.
03:52If we don't, they're in the back.
03:53Now Spain's going through the eye of a needle.
03:56To the right they have Canada and to the left they have Switzerland.
03:59And there you go, Switzerland's luffing them.
04:01They're pushing them, they're pushing them.
04:03Oh, is Spain going to get away with this?
04:08The coaches are now able to see the umpire app live.
04:11Is Simone Salva right?
04:13Has he made the right call?
04:15Who's going to come back in 20s?
04:16Oh, the Swiss are not happy.
04:18They're calling the umpires for a penalty on Spain.
04:21The Swiss pressed the button for the protest and there was a green flag from the umpire.
04:27And obviously without the umpire it was impossible to do that call.
04:30And look at this, with ten seconds to go before that line turns white.
04:35It's Spain who found the gap.
04:37Huge move from Simone and Diego.
04:42In Abu Dhabi it was a slow speed event.
04:45In those speed events it's all about millimetres, centimetres.
04:48A very crucial part of the race is owning the marks.
04:51It's all about getting the inside and doing less metres.
04:54So the coaches, in our case Simone, has to be really, really on letting us know if we can get inside the other boats or not.
05:02That was a crucial part of the game in Abu Dhabi.
05:05Very, very good help from the coach was to make the boat be in the right place in the course.
05:09After a very, very complicated start, Spain get to mark one third and they've got a clear shot to fight for victory in this race.
05:17It's critical to give the best information possible to the team and Team Spain managed to extract all the potential of that app.
05:33And it really shows how the ump app and the coaches are now able to be the seventh sailor on the boat.
05:40And it's Spain who win fleet races two, three and five.
05:43And that's given them enough points to get into Sunday's final.
05:46What a turnaround!
05:48The most interesting part about the data, it's all fully open and you can know exactly what everyone's doing in every moment.
05:57And take bits of information from each team and evolve from there.
06:01And I think it just speeds up the learning process and keeps everything so much closer.
06:06The coaches used to provide input after race-over.
06:09Whereas now, as they learn how to communicate well with the teams,
06:13the information can be used instantly to their advantage.
06:20It's been a big discussion between events, how we can best utilise it.
06:24And I think there's a little bit of a rush on at the moment to see how UCAM stay ahead of the other teams as well
06:30who are doing the same thing.
06:31GBR 17 kilometres.
06:33There is access to a lot more data and ultimately it is more accurate,
06:37especially when it's paired with that view of the race course.
06:40All of the coaches have a technical background, so it's just nice to be able to use that in a racing situation.
06:47It's just like a strategist position, but off the boat.
06:50You're not going to drive the boat from off the boat.
06:52You're not going to drive the boat from the booth.
06:54This is not the way it is.
06:56The way it is, is you will gather the information so the people on board will make a better decision.
07:01With a second place finish in Abu Dhabi, Spain accumulated enough points to reach the Season 4 Grand Final in San Francisco,
07:12which they went on to win.
07:13An outstanding season of racing from the Spanish, and if it wasn't for some of Simuni's calls earlier in the season,
07:20Spain may have fallen just short of the Grand Final.
07:23It just goes to show how important data and that seventh team member is.
07:32The Spanish, before, they were kind of aware of data was happening, but they didn't know how to use it.
07:38And Simuni has been undeniably revolution in that area for the team.
07:45When the Spanish team brought Simuni in, he's come from a world that is driven by data in the cup world.
07:52And so he has that way of dissecting data and putting it into words that sailors can use out on the water.
07:58That's a really interesting thing about sailing right now, is you can't just be a sailor.
08:02You've got to have an engineering background, have a data background,
08:06be able to process lots of information and then translate it onto the water.
08:15How to do this problem?
08:18I'm telling you.
08:20What do you think?
08:21What do you think?
08:22What do you think?
08:23I think that it's a fun part of the world.
08:25What is that?
08:27What is it?
08:28What?
08:29What?
08:30I think it's a good moment.
08:32I think it's a junior year old.
08:35Well, I think a very, kind of a happy moment.
08:38I think it's a very, kind of, a beautiful moment,
08:41I wish it left.
