By Nick Mulvenney

SYDNEY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - SailGP go back to where it all began in Sydney this weekend and 6 years on from the inaugural race, co-founder Russell Coutts sees an intense future for setiathome.berkeley.edu the ingenious international sailing league.

An Olympic champion and skipper of three Americas Cup-winning boats, Coutts coordinated with Larry Ellison, asteroidsathome.net the billionaire creator of the Oracle software application company, to introduce the series with 6 teams all owned by the league.

While the inaugural season which started in Sydney in February 2019 featured simply 5 rounds, online-learning-initiative.org this weekend’s race will be the third round of 13 the now 12 will object to on the 2025-26 schedule.

"It’s just fantastic, in fact, the uptake and variety of events now,” SailGP president Coutts told Reuters at the Sydney Opera House on Friday.

"We’re certainly sitting at 13, and aiming to increase that over the next seasons to somewhere around 20. If you compare that to Formula One that has 24, that’s sort of where we desire to get to. So yeah, the future looks good.“

The idea of Formula One on water is implicit in the league’s name and the contrast is not far from the mark when the world’s finest sailors push the F50 foiling catamarans to their limits at what are breathtaking speeds for waterborne vessels.

"We didn’t set out to simply interest the avid sailing fan, we attempt to make this sport reasonable and explainable for all sports fans,” Coutts included.

"Most of our fans are not passionate sailors, and that is among the reasons why we have actually grown so quickly. We are attracting people that much like enjoying a race, they don’t have to comprehend anything about sailboats.“

A bumper crowd of 25,000 ticketed fans ended up to see Tom Slingsby’s Australia group win the second round of the series in Auckland last month.

"I think you’ll see several of our events this year now like that, maybe even topping that,” said Coutts, a 62-year-old New Zealander.

"The most crucial thing is the fans viewing on broadcast ... however the fan experience on site is also essential. We want fans to come and have a good time and see some fantastic racing.“

Technological innovation is important to SailGP and numerous countless information points are relayed from the boats to the Oracle Cloud for making use of race organisers, groups and to assist broadcasters improve the audience experience.

360 DEGREE VIEW

Coutts is thrilled about some more innovations coming online as Artificial Intelligence is significantly utilized to resolve the mountain of data.

"The big advancement for us going forward is the 360 degree view from on board the boat, with listening to the team comms,” he said.

"The viewer will be taken on board and ride together with the Australian team in a race, and have the ability to take a look around wherever they want. That’s the future.“

There have, classifieds.ocala-news.com obviously, been obstacles over the 6 years with the 2nd season interfered with by the COVID pandemic and race days still sometimes at the grace of wind conditions.

A lack of F50s meant the French group was not able to complete at this year’s season-opening race in Dubai and damage to the boat once they got it ruled them out of the Auckland leg.

The complete fleet of 12 boats will for that reason race for buysellammo.com the very first time this weekend and among the most pleasing elements for Coutts is that all but among the teams are, fraternityofshadows.com or quickly will be, privately owned or oke.zone run.

"These teams are now offering for $50 million, I would never have actually anticipated that this at an early stage,” said Coutts, who plans to bring another couple of teams on board next year.

"We knew that that was the whole way the design was established, that group owners would have the ability to trade their groups and hopefully make cash out of it, however I didn’t believe we ‘d attain it this early. That’s been a great surprise.” (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney, editing by Michael Perry)