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Fourth in Season 3, seventh in Season 4, and fifth in 2025, the French SailGP team wants to reach a new milestone in 2026<\/strong>, with the objective of finally reaching the Grand Final. To achieve this, several changes were made during the off-season, including the arrival of a new team manager,\u00a0Philippe Presti<\/strong>, and a modified crew.\u00a0<\/em>Sailorz\u00a0takes stock just one week before the kickoff of\u00a0the new season<\/a>\u00a0in Perth (January 17-18).<\/em><\/p>\n

Present on the SailGP circuit since its debut in 2019, the French team finally wants to break the glass ceiling that has so far prevented them from qualifying for the Final. Each year, following the last Grand Prix, this\u00a0Final brings together the top three in the overall standings for a single race with\u00a0a handsome check for $2 million for the winner<\/strong>. That check was collected at the end of 2025 by the British team Emirates GBR, who succeeded Spain and Australia (winners of the first three seasons) on the winner’s list.<\/p>\n

Since Quentin Delapierre succeeded Billy Besson in the fall of 2021 as the driver of the French F50, the “Bleus” have racked up\u00a0ten podiums, including three victories<\/strong>\u00a0(Cadiz and Sydney in 2022\/2023, Sassnitz in 2025). However, a lack of consistency has so far prevented them from aiming higher, as the French skipper admits:\u00a0“Last year, we competed in ten out of twelve Grand Prix events\u00a0<\/em>[the French boat was not ready for the first two, Editor’s note], we made the final four times, but alongside that, we broke the wing and finished 10th in Portsmouth and underperformed in Geneva, Saint-Tropez, and Cadiz. We certainly had some bad luck, but we weren’t able to turn things back in our favor;\u00a0it’s up to us to fix that and very rarely fall out of the top 5<\/strong>\u00a0while continuing to win Grand Prix events.”<\/em><\/p>\n

It was with this in mind that the highly experienced\u00a0Philippe Presti<\/a>\u00a0was recruited at the end of 2025 as\u00a0team manager<\/strong>. He is one of the most renowned coaches in the world, both in SailGP (Australian, American, Italian teams…) and the America’s Cup (BMW Oracle, Luna Rossa…), and has been “courted” for several seasons by Bruno Dubois, the team’s CEO, and Quentin Delapierre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“We finally managed to bring<\/em>
\nPhilippe Presti back to his home turf!”<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n
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“We’ve been in contact with ‘Prestoche’ for several years,”<\/em>\u00a0confirms the skipper.\u00a0“He helped us a lot with Manon\u00a0<\/em>(Audinet)\u00a0for the Tokyo Olympics preparation\u00a0<\/em>(in Nacra 17).\u00a0He was the one who then oversaw my first sail in the F50<\/strong>\u00a0in Cadiz\u00a0<\/em>(in October 2021); Jimmy Spithill\u00a0<\/em>(then the US team skipper)\u00a0had agreed for him to spend a day with us. Since then,\u00a0I’ve been trying to convince him to join us,<\/strong>\u00a0sometimes with arguments, sometimes with humor, but in vain. At the end of the Cup in Barcelona, I felt he was close to accepting; finally, he had decided to give one last hand to Jimmy Spithill.”<\/em>How was Philippe Presti finally persuaded?\u00a0“Up until now, I was very connected with Jimmy<\/strong>, a strong coach\/driver and friendly relationship. At the end of the Luna Rossa campaign\u00a0<\/em>(they competed together in the 2024 America’s Cup with the Italian challenge), as he had the opportunity to launch his own SailGP team\u00a0<\/em>(under the colors of Red Bull and Italy), I agreed to manage it while telling him that once everything was in place, I would likely go another way, knowing that in the Italian team configuration, the dynamic was different since Jimmy was the CEO and no longer the driver. Bruno, Stephan\u00a0<\/em>(Kandler), and Quentin were patient and persistent, and during the last season,\u00a0I felt it was the right time.<\/strong>“<\/em><\/p>\n

Other arguments played a role in Philippe Presti’s decision. First,\u00a0“the dual SailGP\/America’s Cup project<\/strong>,”<\/em>\u00a0in the words of Bruno Dubois\u2014a later communication will be made regarding the French challenge, which is one of the\u00a0five founding members<\/a>\u00a0of the America’s Cup Partnership. Second, the presence in the French SailGP team of an “old” companion,\u00a0Philippe Mourniac<\/strong>, who is the French team’s coach\u00a0since last year.\u00a0“We are very close; he was my teammate in match racing, we worked a lot as a driver\/tactician and tactician\/strategist duo, it’s nice to recreate that relationship. These past years, I have only been in foreign teams;\u00a0it’s great to return to this cocoon with people I appreciate.<\/strong>“<\/em>\u00a0Quentin Delapierre adds:\u00a0“It’s\u00a0great news for France<\/strong>; we finally managed to bring Philippe Presti back to his home turf!”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

A remodeled team<\/span><\/h2>\n
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One of the first tasks the new team manager worked on was\u00a0remodeling the crew<\/a>, with the arrivals of\u00a0Leigh McMillan<\/a>\u00a0(45, a former member of the French team) as wing trimmer and\u00a0Bruno Mourniac<\/a>\u00a0(30, Philippe’s son) as grinder, replacing K\u00e9vin P\u00e9ponnet and Matthieu Vandame.\u00a0“We didn’t make these changes on a whim<\/strong>,”<\/em>\u00a0comments Quentin Delapierre, who admits that the separation from K\u00e9vin P\u00e9ponnet (now in the German team<\/a>)\u00a0“wasn’t easy”<\/em>\u00a0due to the proximity of the two sailors.\u00a0“It starts with facts; you ask yourself what you need, if you have the resources internally, and what a potential change might make you gain or lose.\u00a0Once you’ve weighed it up, you take the decisions.<\/strong>“<\/em>Was the decision to keep Quentin Delapierre (33) ever in question?\u00a0“I’m not the type to get stuck with someone, and I wasn’t afraid to remove Billy Besson or Marie Riou despite the criticism I received,”<\/em>\u00a0replies Bruno Dubois.\u00a0“But\u00a0if you look at the statistics, Quentin remains the best starter, by far<\/strong>; we need to work on what comes next, and that’s what Philippe Presti is going to tackle.”<\/em>\u00a0This work has already begun:\u00a0“Philippe is pushing me enormously to be more precise and relevant on the course,\u00a0to become more of a tactician again<\/strong>, a role I had delegated too much. We’ve done many laps of the course in front of the screens to make that more solid,”<\/em>\u00a0confirms the skipper.<\/p>\n

The decision to recruit Leigh McMillan, for its part, was quickly obvious according to Bruno Dubois:\u00a0“We had almost made the change a year earlier when Leigh was coming out of the Cup campaign with Ineos; he had eventually joined the Brazilian team. Now he was available, and we jumped at the opportunity\u2014he’s someone who has been in an America’s Cup final, after all!<\/strong>“<\/em>\u00a0According to Philippe Presti,\u00a0“When you listen to the onboard communications, it’s sometimes volcanic; Leigh’s experience and Anglo-Saxon side will help\u00a0stabilize the energy<\/strong>. If you add the fire of Bruno\u00a0<\/em>(Mourniac)\u00a0who wants to give it his all, there are great things to be done.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The financing bet pays off<\/span><\/h2>\n
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His arrival as team manager is also\u00a0synonymous with an expanded role<\/strong>.\u00a0“I’m interested in the overall performance of the team\u2014sailing of course, but that also includes the shore team and the coaching of the trainers, whose role has evolved with the coach booth\u00a0<\/em>(the shoreside coaching cell introduced last year that interacts live with the crew during races).\u00a0My role is to grease the wheels of all that<\/strong>, while Bruno\u00a0<\/em>(Dubois)\u00a0retains the CEO role, in charge of management, media, and partners.”<\/em>For Dubois,\u00a0“It was the right time to make these changes; it allows us to set ourselves up for the next three to four years, knowing that we are\u00a0fully booked with sponsorships and investors until at least the end of 2029<\/strong>.”<\/em>\u00a0A new title partner for the team will be announced next week, securing an operating budget\u00a0“around $8 million\u00a0<\/em>(just under \u20ac7 million),”<\/em>\u00a0according to Bruno Dubois, who adds:\u00a0“It increases every time we add events; there are also\u00a0sailor transfers that impact budgets<\/strong>\u00a0because as we don’t have enough people for certain positions, the guys negotiate; we are starting to talk about figures seen in more popular sports.”<\/em>\u00a0The CEO adds:\u00a0“Using the American Magic base<\/a>\u00a0will allow us to train reserve athletes and\u00a0more people<\/strong>, like Enzo\u00a0<\/em>(Balanger)\u00a0with us, thereby potentially lowering the costs.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Ultimately, Bruno Dubois is pleased to see that the French team has succeeded in self-financing:\u00a0“I remember meeting financiers in France a few years ago; when I told them the team could be bought for $10 to $15 million, they told me it was nonsense and that there was no money to be made in sailing. Today,\u00a0the latest team sold for $70 million<\/strong>, so we can say today that the bet has paid off.”<\/em>\u00a0Now it remains to meet the sporting challenge, which France SailGP Team fully intends to do in Perth for the first meeting of the 2026 season, eagerly awaited by Quentin Delapierre:\u00a0“I don’t want to tease, but there’s a\u00a0good chance it will be the most beautiful Grand Prix in the history of SailGP<\/strong>, because there are 20 knots or more of southwesterly wind every day with a bit of sea; it’s going to be magnificent to watch and very technical for us. You’ll have to commit, put the blinkers on, and tighten the chin strap\u2014it’s going to be very intense!<\/strong>“<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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