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Sail GP, Christchurch Grand Prix

In New Zealand, Peter Burling and his teammates had to settle for second place, after they were defeated by the Canadians, led by … New Zealander Phil Robertson.

For Vannetais Quentin Delapierre, the day started well with a third place in heat No. 1. In the next heat, the French, hampered by the English and also by a broken part of the bar system before the start, could do no better than seventh. With this fifth place at the Christchurch Grand Prix, Team France remains on the podium in the provisional classification.

So it will all be decided in San Francisco on the weekend of May 7-8 to see who plays in the Grand Final.

“another crisis”

Eleven points ahead of the New Zealanders (2), the Australians are already qualified: the French themselves occupy third place in the provisional classification, a small point behind the English.

“I think there will be a match race in San Francisco because we are third, one point behind the English: it will be another crisis in a different sport, Quentin Delapiere analyzes. I think it will be hot especially since Ben Ainslie was world champion racer. We also have assets with our state of mind.We also focus on making good starts: if we start well, they can’t hold us back.

Christchurch Grand Prix rankings

1 Canada (Phil Robertson)

2 New Zealand (Peter Burling)

3 Australia (Tom Slingsby)

4GBR (Ben Ainslie)

5 France (Quentin Delapierre)

6 United States (Jamie Spithel)

7. Switzerland (Sebastian Schneiter)

8 Denmark (Nikolai Sehested)

9- Spain (Diego Botín)

Round 4

1 Australia (10 points)

2 New Zealand (9 points)

3 France (8 points)

4 GB (7 points)

5 Spain (6 points)

6 Canada (5 points)

7 Denmark (4 points)

8 Switzerland (3 points)

9 USA (2 points)

Round 5

1 Australia (10 points)

2 USA (9 points)

3 New Zealand (8 points)

4 Canada (7 points)

5 Switzerland (6 points)

6 Emirates Airlines (5 points)

7 France (4 points)

8 Denmark (3 points)

9 Spain (2 points)

General classification

1 Australia (84 points)

2 New Zealand (73 points)

3 France (69 points)

4 GB (68 points)

5 Denmark (60 points)

6 Canada (59 points)

7 United States (57 points).

8 Switzerland (29 points).

9 Spain (29 points).