2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship

2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship
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Paul Bonhomme claimed his second consecutive Air Race World Championship, defeating Hannes Arch by four points.

The 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the eighth official Red Bull Air Race World Championship series. Paul Bonhomme became champion for the second successive year, finishing each of the six rounds of the championship in the top three placings, two of which were victories. Hannes Arch was the only other round winner, taking four victories but finished four points behind Bonhomme, after an eleventh-place finish in the season-opener in the United Arab Emirates. Nigel Lamb finished third with three runner-up placings, and three fourth places.

At the end of the season, Red Bull Air Race GmbH announced that the series would take a one-year break in 2011, to reorganize and strengthen development and commercial aspects of the series.[1]

Aircraft and pilots

No. Pilot Nationality Aircraft Rounds Contested
4
 Kirby Chambliss USA Edge 540 All
5
 Peter Besenyei Hungary MX Aircraft MXS-R All
7
 Adilson Kindlemann[2] Brazil MX Aircraft MXS-R 1
8
 Martin Šonka Czech Republic Edge 540 All
9
 Nigel Lamb United Kingdom MX Aircraft MXS-R All
18
 Sergey Rakhmanin Russia MX Aircraft MXS-R All
21
 Matthias Dolderer Germany Edge 540 All
27
 Nicolas Ivanoff France Edge 540 All
28
 Hannes Arch Austria Edge 540 All
31
 Yoshihide Muroya Japan Edge 540 1–4, 6
36
 Alejandro Maclean Spain MX Aircraft MXS-R All
55
 Paul Bonhomme United Kingdom Edge 540 All
84
 Pete McLeod Canada Edge 540 All
95
 Matt Hall Australia MX Aircraft MXS-R 1–4, 6
99
 Michael Goulian USA Edge 540 All

New pilots

Two new pilots joined the Red Bull Air Race Series for 2010 season as Mike Mangold and Glen Dell left the series. They were Martin Šonka from the Czech Republic and Adilson Kindlemann from Brazil.

Race calendar and results

Round Location Country Date Fastest Qualifying Winning Pilot Winning Aircraft
1 Mina' Zayid, Abu Dhabi United Arab Emirates March 26–27 Hannes Arch Paul Bonhomme Edge 540
2 Swan River, Perth Australia April 17–18 Paul Bonhomme Hannes Arch Edge 540
3 Flamengo Beach, Rio de Janeiro Brazil May 8–9 Hannes Arch Hannes Arch Edge 540
4 Windsor, Ontario Canada June 5–6 Nigel Lamb Hannes Arch Edge 540
5 New York City United States June 19–20 Hannes Arch Paul Bonhomme Edge 540
6 EuroSpeedway Lausitz Germany August 7–8 Paul Bonhomme Hannes Arch Edge 540
7 River Danube, Budapest Hungary Cancelled[3]
8 Lisbon Portugal Cancelled[4]

Championship standings

Rank Pilot Race Results (Place) Total Points
United Arab Emirates Australia Brazil Canada United States Germany
1 Paul Bonhomme 1 3* 3 2 1 2* 64
2 Hannes Arch 11* 1 1* 1 4* 1 60
3 Nigel Lamb 2 4 2 4* 2 4 55
4 Kirby Chambliss 6 8 5 3 3 6 41
5 Pete McLeod 5 5 7 9 5 8 33
6 Nicolas Ivanoff 9 6 6 7 6 5 33
7 Matt Hall 8 2 4 DSQ DSQ 3 31
8 Matthias Dolderer 7 7 10 5 10 7 26
9 Michael Goulian 4 11 8 6 7 13 24
10 Peter Besenyei 3 10 11 10 8 9 21
11 Alejandro Maclean 12 13 9 11 9 10 9
12 Yoshihide Muroya 10 9 12 DNS DNS 12 5
13 Sergey Rakhmanin 15 12 14 8 12 14 4
14 Martin Šonka 13 14 13 12 11 11 2
15 Adilson Kindlemann 14 EX EX EX EX EX 0

(*) indicates the pilot received an extra point for the fastest time in Qualifying

Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th Qualifying Fastest
Points 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 0 0 0 1

Incidents

At about 11:50AM local time, (3:50 UTC) on 15 April, Brazilian pilot Adilson Kindlemann crashed his MXS-R[5] aircraft into the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia during practice. Rescuers were on the scene within one minute. Kindlemann was taken to Royal Perth Hospital where it was found that he had no serious injuries.[2] It was only the previous day (14 April) that the pilots completed their underwater emergency training. Kindlemann was the first South American to contest the Air Race and was three-times Brazilian aerobatics champion (Unlimited category) when he joined the competition with 18 years aerobatics experience; over 11,000 hours flight time; and about 1,200 hours of aerobatics, as detailed on the official Red Bull Air Race website.[6][7]

During qualifying for the race in Windsor, Matt Hall nearly crashed his aircraft into the Detroit River.[8] The aircraft lost lift after a series of high-G turns and dipped both wings and a wheel into the water before Hall powered up and out of what could have been a bad wreck. His aircraft was too damaged to continue and he was disqualified from competing both that weekend and the following race in New York.[9]

Spanish pilot Alejandro Maclean was killed on 17 August, when his aircraft crashed into the ground while performing a manoeuvre during a training exercise at Casarrubios del Monte in Spain.[10]

References

  1. ↑ World Championship confirms one-year break in 2011
  2. 1 2 "Red Bull Plane Crashes into River". TheWest.com.au. 2010-04-15. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
  3. ↑ "Champion to be crowned in Germany following Budapest cancellation". RedBullAirRace.com. July 13, 2010. Archived from the original on 16 July 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
  4. ↑ "Final round of the World Championship 2010 in Portugal Cancelled". RedBullAirRace.com. July 7, 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
  5. ↑ "MX Aircraft News ", MX Aircraft, February 11, 2010, Retrieved April 15, 2010
  6. ↑ "Profile-Adilson Kindlemann ", Red Bull Air Race, Retrieved April 15, 2010
  7. ↑ “Air-race plane crashes into river ”, The Age, April 15, 2010, Retrieved April 15, 2010
  8. ↑ Detroit Free Press: Pilot Matt Hall tells how he avoided crash into Detroit River
  9. ↑ Australia's Race Pilot, Matt Hall will not compete in New York
  10. ↑ "Red Bull Air Race pilot killed during stunt flight". thenational.ae. Archived from the original on 22 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-17.

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