Rolex / The Rolex SailGP Championship

Key Highlights

• Emirates GBR SailGP Team wins the 2025 Rolex SailGP Championship in Abu Dhabi and secures a second consecutive Impact League title.
• Rolex becomes Title Partner of the championship from the 2025 Season, reinforcing its long-standing yachting commitment.
• A season of innovation with T-Foils, record speeds above 103 km/h and new venues including Auckland and Lake Geneva.
• Rolex Testimonees Hannah Mills, Martine Grael and Tom Slingsby help shape one of the most competitive SailGP seasons to date.
• The champion team is honoured with specially engraved Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master 42 watches in RLX Titanium.

A season decided at the penultimate corner

The 2025 Rolex SailGP Championship concluded in Abu Dhabi, where Emirates GBR SailGP Team emerged as champions after racing across 12 events on four continents. In a Grand Final against the BONDS Flying Roos SailGP Team and the Black Foils SailGP Team, the British crew secured the title with a decisive move at the penultimate corner in a season of tight margins.

Strategist and Rolex Testimonee Hannah Mills described a campaign built on disciplined execution and collective focus, underlining the role of family, coaches and teammates in sustaining performance.

Emirates GBR also claimed the Impact League for a second consecutive year, becoming the first crew to achieve the double of championship and Impact League. Their season illustrates how elite sport, advanced technology and responsible practices can progress together.

The 2025 Season was among the closest in Rolex SailGP history, with eight of the 12 teams winning events. The introduction of T-Foils, mechanical setbacks including wing failures in San Francisco, and key athlete changes for both the BONDS Flying Roos and Emirates GBR kept the competitive balance shifting throughout the year.

Rolex Testimonees at the forefront of innovation

Within Emirates GBR, Rolex Testimonee Hannah Mills translates Olympic-honed discipline into F50 fleet racing, where consistency and restrained risk-taking can decide a championship.

For Martine Grael, driver of Mubadala Brazil SailGP Team and the first female driver in the championship, the 2025 campaign focused on building foundations and adapting to a steep learning curve, with a first race win in New York marking a key milestone in the team’s progression.

Rolex Testimonee Tom Slingsby, driver of the BONDS Flying Roos SailGP Team, highlighted how the league’s evolution is drawing an ever-stronger roster of sailors and raising performance expectations, demanding constant refinement in preparation, data use and on-water decision-making.

As Title Partner of the Rolex SailGP Championship from the 2025 Season, Rolex supports this trajectory, aligning its values of innovation and precision with a global platform that rewards both.

The Rolex SailGP Championship and the Oyster Perpetual spirit

Rolex’s partnership with SailGP extends a yachting heritage that dates back to the late 1950s. From offshore races such as the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and Rolex Fastnet Race to grand prix events including the Rolex TP52 World Championship, the Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup and the Rolex Swan Cup, the brand has long aligned with arenas that demand resilience, precision and disciplined teamwork.

This philosophy also guides Rolex watchmaking. Its integrated manufacture, Superlative Chronometer certification and the pioneering spirit behind the waterproof Oyster case of 1926 and the Perpetual rotor of 1931 reflect a long-term vision of perpetual excellence. The specially engraved Oyster Perpetual Yacht-Master 42 in RLX Titanium presented to Emirates GBR SailGP Team symbolizes the connection between technical mastery on the wrist and mastery on the water, while the expanding Rolex SailGP Championship and its new venues signal further boundary-pushing performance in the seasons ahead.

Why it matters

The Rolex SailGP Championship illustrates how a watchmaker rooted in precision engineering can help shape the future of a global, high-performance sport. For discerning collectors and enthusiasts in the GCC, it offers a clear view of how Rolex translates its values of innovation, endurance and excellence from the movement to the racecourse, underscoring the cultural and technical depth behind every Oyster Perpetual timepiece.