Emirates GBR Secure Back to Back Wins

SailGP – the most exciting racing on water – has today announced the winners of the Impact League for the 2025 Season – the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team – for the second consecutive year.

The Impact League, SailGP’s award-winning championship that tracks and celebrates teams’ positive actions on and off the water, celebrating social and environmental impact alongside sporting performance. And after 48 project submissions, 20 judges, 114 hours of judging, the 2025 Impact League trophy has been awarded!

Emirates GBR’s season-long campaign was marked by podium performances in each of the four Focus Area challenges spanning social and environmental impact across the season – Race to Zero Waste, Accelerating Inclusion, Climate Action and Breaking Boundaries.

Results of the team’s efforts included the expansion of their Young Development programme, enabling athlete, Kai Hockley, to secure a full-time position with Emirates GBR, alongside providing inclusion-focused education with the 1851 Trust. Overall 350+ hours of on-water training were provided for underrepresented youth sailors. The team also drove waste reduction by rebranding and reusing existing kit and engaged 250,000 young people in climate education in collaboration with Goodwall, alongside the continued generation of clean power onsite at SailGP events with purpose partner Low Carbon’s portable solar installation.

Celebrating the consecutive victory, Emirates GBR CEO and co-owner, Sir Ben Ainslie, said: “I’m so proud of the team for winning the Impact League for the second year running. As a team, we want to make a positive impact both on and off the water and this year we’ve had some big results. We’ve expanded our partnership with the Greig City Academy in North London to get more young people into the marine industry, put on foiling academies in Weymouth and partnered with Goodwall and the 1851 Trust to provide STEM and climate education.”

In their first Impact League appearance, Mubadala Brazil, with the Rolex SailGP Championship’s first ever female driver, Martine Grael, soared into second place overall, an extraordinary result for one of the league’s newest nations. Brazil’s efforts to help restore Pombeba Island in Rio de Janeiro’s Guanabara Bay and build climate adaptation awareness in the city’s favelas paid dividends – in the community and on the leaderboard. Mubadala Brazil were the winners in the season’s final Focus Area challenge, Breaking Boundaries – establishing a 50% female-led off-shore leadership team and launching a female foiling clinic to accelerate pathways for Brazilian female sailors.

NorthStar Canada also impressed throughout the season, podiuming in three of four Focus Areas and winning Climate Action, in which the team planted 2,000 eelgrass shoots south of Halifax with local sailors and scientists. Throughout, judges recognized the Canadian crew for their strategic and focused commitment to locally-relevant and collaborative projects.

Fiona Morgan, SailGP Chief Purpose Officer spoke highly of Emirates GBR’s second year of success: “What an achievement for the Emirates Great Britain SailGP Team winning the Impact League for the second year running — a standout example of their long-term commitment and passion across the team to drive meaningful change. Their consistency and leadership set a powerful example of what’s possible when purpose and performance go hand in hand.”

Heading into this weekend’s Mubadala Abu Dhabi Sail Grand Prix 2025 Season Grand Final presented by Abu Dhabi Sports Council (November 29-30) in pole position, Emirates GBR are well placed to be the first team to win both trophies. The event consists of two days of 12-boat fleet races, after which an event winner will be crowned and season points tallied, in order to determine the top three teams who will advance to the Grand Final – a single, winner-takes-all showdown for the sport’s top prize, US $2 million.