Jason Pine: Sportstalk host on Australia winning SailGP in Auckland

Australia have won the latest SailGP regatta in Auckland, after beating Spain and Great Britain in the three-team final.

The Australians won two fleet races out of seven and had three runner-up finishes to be the top boat heading into the decider.

It was disappointment for the Black Foils, who missed out on qualifying for the final by two points.

Sportstalk host Jason Pine unpacked the racing action from this morning.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jason Pine. Hello, Andrew, we're a busy man. You're at
you're at the sailing and you also called the elk
in their sea game.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah, well, I mean good to. It's good to get
the vibe of a city. I reckon and you're so right.
You know, Auckland over the weekend just felt like it
just felt like I had a vibe about it. Absolutely
loved it.

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Now, I don't want to be a you know, and
I don't want to be negative radio host guy. But
was this our GP course too short?

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Well? I guess if you flip it, you'll say, well, actually,
if it was longer, they wouldn't have got eight races
in which they did four fleet racers Saturday, three fleet
races yesterday and a final. So you certainly got your
money's worth, your bang for your buck if you paid
for it. Typically it's three fleet racers on the Saturday,
two more on the Sunday, and then a final that's
on a longer course. There's a broadcast window of ninety minutes.

(00:50):
They have to fit everything into that. They did the
calculation said hey we can get some more races in here.
I guess what it did was give you less opportunity
if you're one of the boats to pass and to
move up the field. So I guess from a sailor's
point of view that there might be a different answer.
You know, I still think there was a plenty of opportunities,
a lot. We had a lot of different race winners.
Australia clearly the best boat out on the water last

(01:12):
couple of days. I think they deserve to win, but
I think everybody else had a decent crack at it.

Speaker 1 (01:16):
It reminded me of Vistappin in Formula one at the
beginning of last season, where it became just a procession.
He won the start, he led all the way through.
It was the same with this as well, and all
you were sitting there, the old Dame in this competition,
going I hope someone crashes. I hope someone falls off
the foils. I hope somebody capsizes. And I don't think
that's good sport. Each of those races were over under
seven minutes.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, it does happen really quickly. You know. It's the
T twenty of sailing, isn't it a sail GP. But
look it's still I think the format still works. You're right,
whoever gets the start has a huge advantage. In fact,
the start and getting to the first mark, which are
normally the same boat, so they do have an advantage.
But then the jockeying for position I mean Team New

(01:57):
Zealand the Black Foils will last off the line. In
the first trace, they got up to fourth, so they
did pass another what's that six boats to get up
to where they eventually finished, So there is an opportunity
to pass, but is there enough opportunity to catch the
boat that gets away fastest. More often than not, the
starting advantage turns into a winning advantage, so maybe it

(02:18):
needs to be looked at.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
What about Daniel Hillyer, Eh.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Oh, this is so good. I mean, what a payday
for him? Nine hundred and seventy one thousand euro or something.
I think it's a one point seven million New Zealand dollars.
The more important part of this, though, Andrew, is the
points he gets on the European Tour, because, as we know,
holding onto your tour card is a big thing, particularly
when you're early in your career. What he's done here
by getting eight hundred and eighty nine points for second

(02:45):
place outright is he's basically secured his European or DP
World Tour card for next year, so he can be
more selective about the events he plays. Now he can,
you know, he can relax a little bit. He doesn't
have to go to every far flung event on the
Deep Tour to try and earn his points. He's got
them basically from this one event. So that's a massive
thing for him, and his bank balance is looking a

(03:06):
lot healthier to And it's.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
Not on the list. I probably don't have time, but
oh my god, Chris Wood scored another.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
It's not even a surprise anymore, is that Chris Wood
plays a game of football. Chris Wood scores a goal.
You wake up and it happened so often now it's
almost becoming commonplace.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's not commonplace, mate, it's special. It's genius.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I know that.

Speaker 1 (03:25):
Unbelievable. Anyway, I love you work. Thank you so much.
Jason Pine, who will be backulated on tonight seven o'clock.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
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