Kylian Mbappé, DJ Khaled partner with SailGP Championship ahead of Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix

The Rolex SailGP championship announced on Friday that the coalition capital of French footballer Kylian Mbappé is investing in the France SailGP team. The announcement came a week after SailGP announced that DJ Khaled became a member of the sport as a Chief Hype Officer.

In addition to the investment by Coalition Capital, the ‘inspired by KM’ Association of MBappé is also the official charity partner of the French SailGP team. The French team is managed by K-Challenge and Co-Cos Bruno Dubois and Stephan Kandler.

“We are pleased to be on board with this new adventure with the France SailGP team, alongside Accor and other investors,” said Mbappé in a statement. “I am also proud that IBKM has the chance to involve more young people around the world through this relationship.”

“We could no longer be excited to welcome Kylian Mbappé in our growing SailGP family of partners and investors – he is unmistakably one of the most influential athletes of our time, and an inspiration for sports fans around the world,” read a statement from SailGP CEO Sir Russell Coutts.

Het Franse team, geleid door chauffeur Quentin Delapierre, is een van de originele zes SailGP-teams die teruggaat tot het etablissement van de competitie in 2019. Bekend als “Les Bleus”, het Franse team heeft momenteel het Sailgp-racesnelheidsrecord met een topsnelheid van 99,94 km/u (of 62.01 mph), dat ze in Saint-Tropez tijdens seizoen 3 hit.

The announcement occurs on the first of SailGP’s Lei of American events for 2025, in which DJ Khaled will serve as an ambassador for sport as a chief hype officer. Thanks to his campaign, Khaled will bring the competition and his American Zeil Grand Prixs in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York to the attention.

The Los Angeles Sail Grand Prix will be broadcast this weekend on CBS Sports Network, with coverage of day 1 broadcast at 11 pm et on Saturday for live reporting from day 2 on Sunday at 5 pm et.