14 September

I recently discovered SailGP racing. The F50 catamarans are outrageous! They can do more than 100 km/h, with their carbon fibre hydrofoils which lift the whole boat out of the water. And the sails aren’t fabric, they’re solid, like an aeroplane wing, and their height can be altered. But what interested me just as much is the way they organise the GP competition, like F1, for boats. All the technical development, repairs and maintenance are done centrally, by the competition itself. Meaning out on the water every team has exactly the same boat, and the outcome of each race is purely the result of skill and strategy. F1 could learn from that, it’s a joke, big money wins races with engineering.