TWO OF GERMANY'S leading sports stars – four-time F1 World Champion Sebastian Vettel and double Olympic sailing bronze medallist Erik Heil – have come together, alongside team owner Thomas Riedel, to announce the Germany SailGP Team.
Germany will be the latest nation to contest the purpose-led global racing league, which kicks off its fourth season on June 16-17 with the Rolex United States Sail Grand Prix at Navy Pier, Chicago, a media release said.
The team brings together the best in German business and sport. Inspired by entrepreneur and investor Riedel – president of the leading communications company that bears his name – alongside his new co-investor Vettel, both will take an active role in the management and performance of the team. Heil, who won Olympic bronze medals at both the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, will drive the cutting-edge, hydrofoiling Germany F50, one of the fastest boats on water, capable of speeds nearing 100 km/h.
The new Germany SailGP Team was unveiled during SPOBIS 2023 in Düsseldorf where the team introduced itself and presented its ambitions for the upcoming season. SailGP co-founder and CEO Sir Russell Coutts presented a yellow wheel of the F50 to Heil and Vettel as a symbolic welcome to SailGP.
A passion for high-performance sports, an interest in the latest technologies and a shared belief in SailGP’s approach towards sustainability is what has brought Riedel, Vettel and Heil together for the joint campaign. All three are attracted to the high-tech competition of SailGP and all three appreciate the sustainable concept of the championship.
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