New leadership for US SailGP Team
27/11/2023 15:58
Changes are underway for the United States SailGP Team as a new ownership group has bought the team, and has released CEO and driver Jimmy Spithill (AUS). Rumors have Taylor Canfield (USA) filling Spithill's role.
Spithill had taken over the team for Season Two, with the league now preparing for the sixth event of Season Four.
"I leave it in as good a shape as I could," Spithill told The Associated Press. "If I look at when I started it, what I built and how I'm leaving it, it's basically qualified for the final right now, having just won the last event, giving them a team with a winning culture and that's competitive and with some value."
The league was established in 2018 with funding from tech billionaire Larry Ellison, but the requirement was for all teams to be commercially sustainable by the end of the fifth year. The USA team was still owned by the league.
Spithill, who is preparing for his second straight America's Cup as co-helmsman of Luna Rossa Prada Pirelli Team, has been given the option to start an Italian SailGP Team which would debut in Season 5.
