GB's Scott takes SailGP Canada title for first win

Two-time Olympic champion Giles Scott has guided Great Britain's SailGP squad to its 2nd triumph of nan season.

With precocious winds successful Canada helping boats scope speeds approaching 60mph, Scott emerged triumphant for nan first clip since replacing Sir Ben Ainslie arsenic driver successful January.

The British vessel vanished successful nan apical 3 of some fleet races and claimed nan winner-takes-all last up of France and Denmark to declare nan maximum 10 points.

"A triumph astatine immoderate convention arena is immense and surely for me, personally, to travel disconnected nan backmost of a beautiful frustrating apprenticeship successful SailGP,” said Scott.

"To travel retired pinch a triumph present is monolithic and it's bully to beryllium capable to put a marker down and beryllium that you're tin of winning.”

It was nan team's first triumph since September successful nan 13-event competition, which pits identical 50-foot flying catamarans against each other.

The triumph lifts them to sixth successful nan wide standings pinch 2 regattas remaining.

Australia, presently 3rd successful nan season's wide standings and 13 points up of Britain, capsized connected Sunday aft they faced a 'technical malfunction' during nan race, according to Skipper Tom Slingsby.

The teams caput to New York for nan adjacent arena from 22-23 June, pinch nan $2m last being held successful San Francisco from 13-14 July.