July 13, 2024 • 6 mins
The Sail GP grand finals have arrived.
The Black Foils have already booked their ticket to the final shootout.
Piney caught up with co-CEO Peter Burling to discuss how preparations have gone for the big race.
Since they’re already confirmed for the final, Burling told him that although there’s a temptation to take it easy in the upcoming race, they’ll still be pushing as hard as ever.
He said that with how the league works, you have to win the last race to win the league, so they need to make sure they’re ready to go for the final.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Salgp's season Grand Final is this weekend on San Francisco Bay.
The full f fifty fleet will race five fleet races.
After that, the points are recalculated and the top three
will go into the winner takes All two million dollar
Grand Final showdown. Now, with five event wins already this season,
(00:34):
New Zealand's the only team already qualified for the three
boat shootout. Black Foyle's co CEO and driver Peter Berling
is with us out of San Francisco. Pet, Can I
just clarify that I've got that exactly right? You're confirmed
in the final. It's a one off winner takes all
race late on Sunday local time.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, So the first five races are what steamed this
San Francisco GP. So there's actually a winner half of
those first five races for the San Francisco event, and
then that gets added onto your season total four and
then the top three from the season going to the final.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So it's one way shootout.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
So how will you approach things? Is there any temptation
just to take it easy, stay out of trouble, and
just you know, find out who you're facing in that
in that three boat final.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean there's always semptation, but yeah, it's with how
this league works.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You've got to win that last race to so when
the when the league's you've got to actually put your
best foot forward and try and make sure you're the
form boat going into that. So we'll be pushing, pushing
as hard as ever in these first five races to
try and make sure to try and get a win firstly,
but also.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Try and make sure we're ready to go for that
that last race.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Australia and Spain sit second and third currently. Do they
feel like the two most likely to be in the
final with you?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, well both of them have got a pretty comfortable
get back to France and fourth a few bidding men,
I think it's it's pretty likely to be that way around.
But you know, you've seen plenty of throwing things happen
in the sports, so yeah, I think we won't take
anything for granted and just be ready for whoever we've
got a face on.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You know, it come someday.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
In many ways, will it be quite fun watching the
others battle it out for the right to join you
in the final law, Will you be two too busy
concentrating on what you're doing yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
We're trying to take the one ourselves. But yeah, it'll
be interesting to see if there's any any games get played. Obviously,
last year when we came in a second, third, and fourth,
we were virtually equal, so it was kind of we
want to take all between them. So yeah, there's plenty,
plenty of action going on between between what was France
(02:53):
and GB that time round, so yeah, it'll be interesting
to see if there's anything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This stuff, all right, tell us about conditions. What are
you expecting? What can we expect to see?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, conditions it's looking r also be windy.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, we're actually for Friday, we're going on the high
speed configuration, so small wing and high speed foils, so
that'll be really interesting. It's been out for years since
we've sailed on that configuration, so it'd be really cool.
And then yeah, Saturday Sunday looked pretty similar to that,
so I'm pretty sure they'll they'll have a look see
(03:30):
how things have gone tomorrow and be into it, be
into it for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Did you say it's been a year since you sailed
on the high speed configuration, No, just.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
The full entirety of the high speed configuration. Yeah, with
the small wing.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, the last time we started with it was actually
back in Sydney last season, so yeah, we haven't sailed
this configuration yet this season, so it's definitely going to
be exciting to get out on it for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
In broad terms, Peter, across a range of conditions in
all of these locations across season four, what has got
you into this position at the top of the leaderboard.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think just being consistent, you know, sailing the boat
really well and just doing everything to a reasonably high level.
You know, across the season we've got reasonably good starts
who've always been one of the fastest boats out there,
and just tried to really minimize the mistakes. And you
obviously had our big wobble early on in the season
with a big structural failure which was pretty unlucky and
(04:30):
nothing to no fault of the teams, but you know,
it took us right to the back of the the
Centape event and then we missed event after that, so
that was something that.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Was really hard to bounce back from.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But seeing the resilience of the group to bounce back
from there when when three events on the trip and
we'll get our season total up to five, something that
we're all pretty proud of.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You're so close. Now, have you let yourself think about
about crossing the line first? You know in the Grand Final?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, you can always think about it, but you've
it's more around planning as to how you're actually gonna
go out and put your best forward and make sure
you give it your best shot. And you know something
that obviously there's a bit of an element of luck
in there in the fifteen minute shoot out in the
yacht race, but you know, in saying that, you make
your own luck and you've got to really really planned
(05:23):
to the instagree of trying to make sure you give
yourself every shot of winning it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And just finally, obviously the season five calendars out a
New Zealand League in Auckland confirmed how important is it
to you in the Black Foils organization to be able
to race an event and sell GP on home warders?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh, I mean, it's incredibly important to us to have
a home event, you know, for all our fans, everyone
that chairs us on around the world. We're obviously having
to travel around to be farther to do that anywhere
but home, So you know, it means a lot to
have our fans there, you know, and Christs. Last season
we got you know, over twenty thousand people through the
(05:59):
event village and you know, I'm sure we'll be out
of top that this season in Auckland.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So going to be incredible with.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, something that we're actually stoked to have it on
the calendar and this first release.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yep, we're looking forward to it as well, looking forward
to San Francisco this weekend. We'll all be watching and
cheering you on from back here, Peter. All the best
to you and the Black Foils.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Awesome. Hey, thanks y much, talk thank you, Peter.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talks it B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine
from Newstalk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Salgp's season Grand Final is this weekend on San Francisco Bay.
The full f fifty fleet will race five fleet races.
After that, the points are recalculated and the top three
will go into the winner takes All two million dollar
Grand Final showdown. Now, with five event wins already this season,
(00:34):
New Zealand's the only team already qualified for the three
boat shootout. Black Foyle's co CEO and driver Peter Berling
is with us out of San Francisco. Pet, Can I
just clarify that I've got that exactly right? You're confirmed
in the final. It's a one off winner takes all
race late on Sunday local time.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yeah, So the first five races are what steamed this
San Francisco GP. So there's actually a winner half of
those first five races for the San Francisco event, and
then that gets added onto your season total four and
then the top three from the season going to the final.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
So it's one way shootout.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
So how will you approach things? Is there any temptation
just to take it easy, stay out of trouble, and
just you know, find out who you're facing in that
in that three boat final.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I mean there's always semptation, but yeah, it's with how
this league works.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
You've got to win that last race to so when
the when the league's you've got to actually put your
best foot forward and try and make sure you're the
form boat going into that. So we'll be pushing, pushing
as hard as ever in these first five races to
try and make sure to try and get a win firstly,
but also.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Try and make sure we're ready to go for that
that last race.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Australia and Spain sit second and third currently. Do they
feel like the two most likely to be in the
final with you?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, well both of them have got a pretty comfortable
get back to France and fourth a few bidding men,
I think it's it's pretty likely to be that way around.
But you know, you've seen plenty of throwing things happen
in the sports, so yeah, I think we won't take
anything for granted and just be ready for whoever we've
got a face on.
Speaker 4 (02:20):
You know, it come someday.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
In many ways, will it be quite fun watching the
others battle it out for the right to join you
in the final law, Will you be two too busy
concentrating on what you're doing yourself.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
We're trying to take the one ourselves. But yeah, it'll
be interesting to see if there's any any games get played. Obviously,
last year when we came in a second, third, and fourth,
we were virtually equal, so it was kind of we
want to take all between them. So yeah, there's plenty,
plenty of action going on between between what was France
(02:53):
and GB that time round, so yeah, it'll be interesting
to see if there's anything like that.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
This stuff, all right, tell us about conditions. What are
you expecting? What can we expect to see?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Yeah, conditions it's looking r also be windy.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, we're actually for Friday, we're going on the high
speed configuration, so small wing and high speed foils, so
that'll be really interesting. It's been out for years since
we've sailed on that configuration, so it'd be really cool.
And then yeah, Saturday Sunday looked pretty similar to that,
so I'm pretty sure they'll they'll have a look see
(03:30):
how things have gone tomorrow and be into it, be
into it for the weekend.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Did you say it's been a year since you sailed
on the high speed configuration, No, just.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
The full entirety of the high speed configuration. Yeah, with
the small wing.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Yeah, the last time we started with it was actually
back in Sydney last season, so yeah, we haven't sailed
this configuration yet this season, so it's definitely going to
be exciting to get out on it for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
In broad terms, Peter, across a range of conditions in
all of these locations across season four, what has got
you into this position at the top of the leaderboard.
Speaker 3 (04:06):
I think just being consistent, you know, sailing the boat
really well and just doing everything to a reasonably high level.
You know, across the season we've got reasonably good starts
who've always been one of the fastest boats out there,
and just tried to really minimize the mistakes. And you
obviously had our big wobble early on in the season
with a big structural failure which was pretty unlucky and
(04:30):
nothing to no fault of the teams, but you know,
it took us right to the back of the the
Centape event and then we missed event after that, so
that was something that.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Was really hard to bounce back from.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
But seeing the resilience of the group to bounce back
from there when when three events on the trip and
we'll get our season total up to five, something that
we're all pretty proud of.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
You're so close. Now, have you let yourself think about
about crossing the line first? You know in the Grand Final?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I mean, you can always think about it, but you've
it's more around planning as to how you're actually gonna
go out and put your best forward and make sure
you give it your best shot. And you know something
that obviously there's a bit of an element of luck
in there in the fifteen minute shoot out in the
yacht race, but you know, in saying that, you make
your own luck and you've got to really really planned
(05:23):
to the instagree of trying to make sure you give
yourself every shot of winning it.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
And just finally, obviously the season five calendars out a
New Zealand League in Auckland confirmed how important is it
to you in the Black Foils organization to be able
to race an event and sell GP on home warders?
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh, I mean, it's incredibly important to us to have
a home event, you know, for all our fans, everyone
that chairs us on around the world. We're obviously having
to travel around to be farther to do that anywhere
but home, So you know, it means a lot to
have our fans there, you know, and Christs. Last season
we got you know, over twenty thousand people through the
(05:59):
event village and you know, I'm sure we'll be out
of top that this season in Auckland.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
So going to be incredible with.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Yeah, something that we're actually stoked to have it on
the calendar and this first release.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yep, we're looking forward to it as well, looking forward
to San Francisco this weekend. We'll all be watching and
cheering you on from back here, Peter. All the best
to you and the Black Foils.
Speaker 4 (06:18):
Awesome. Hey, thanks y much, talk thank you, Peter.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talks it B weekends from midday, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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