Английская Википедия:2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship
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 | Aircraft | Rounds Contested |
|---|---|---|---|
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Kirby Chambliss | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Péter Besenyei | MX Aircraft MXS-R | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Adilson Kindlemann[2] | MX Aircraft MXS-R | 1 |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Martin Šonka | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Nigel Lamb | MX Aircraft MXS-R | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Sergey Rakhmanin | MX Aircraft MXS-R | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Matthias Dolderer | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Nicolas Ivanoff | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Hannes Arch | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Yoshihide Muroya | Edge 540 | 1–4, 6 |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Alejandro Maclean | MX Aircraft MXS-R | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Paul Bonhomme | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Pete McLeod | Edge 540 | All |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Matt Hall | MX Aircraft MXS-R | 1–4, 6 |
| Шаблон:Center | Шаблон:Flagicon Michael Goulian | 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
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(*) 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
External links
- Red Bull Air Race official website
- Unofficial Air Race website
- Smoke-On.com A Red Bull Air Race Fan Site
- Bleacher Report's Red Bull Air Race Page
Шаблон:Red Bull Air Race World Series
- ↑ World Championship confirms one-year break in 2011
- ↑ 2,0 2,1 Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ "MX Aircraft News Шаблон:Webarchive", MX Aircraft, February 11, 2010, Retrieved April 15, 2010
- ↑ "Profile-Adilson Kindlemann ", Red Bull Air Race, Retrieved April 15, 2010
- ↑ “Air-race plane crashes into river ”, The Age, April 15, 2010, Retrieved April 15, 2010
- ↑ Detroit Free Press: Pilot Matt Hall tells how he avoided crash into Detroit River
- ↑ Australia's Race Pilot, Matt Hall will not compete in New York
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
