From Penalty to Persistence When you start a global championship in the red, you need more than boat speed to catch up. Germany’s penalty in Sydney not only dented their points tally, it hit morale. Driver Erik Kosegarten-Heil, balancing his career as an elite athlete with training as a doctor, suddenly found himself not just steering an F50 but steadying a crew under immense pressure. “We’re not standing still – we are progressing,” Kosegarten-Heil reflects in the episode.