A second-place finish today at the Australia Sail Grand Prix presented by KPMG qualified the United States and event winner Australia, for the winner-take-all $1 million Season 2 Grand Final at the United States Sail Grand Prix San Francisco, March 26-27.Per SailGP rules, only the top three overall teams at the end of the season will qualify for entry to the high-stakes, final race of the season.Securing the team’s Grand Final berth sets up a dream comeback scenario for U.S. SailGP Team’s CEO and Driver Jimmy Spithill, who now looks to win sailing’s largest prize in front of the hometown, San Francisco crowd.”We started the season in last place after being taken out by the Japanese team.” Spithill said. “It was about the worst possible way for a new team to enter a competition. But we’ve fought our way through broken bones, hitting things, and capsizes.”Spithill is no stranger to dramatic comebacks, especially in San Francisco, where he climbed back from a 8-1 deficit to win the 2013 America’s Cup, called one of the greatest comebacks in sports history.
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