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	Aircraft	Rounds
4	Kirby Chambliss	Edge 540	All
5	Peter Besenyei	MXS-R	All
7	Adilson Kindlemann^[2]	MXS-R	1
8	Martin Šonka	Edge 540	All
9	Nigel Lamb	MXS-R	All
18	Sergey Rakhmanin	MXS-R	All
21	Matthias Dolderer	Edge 540	All
27	Nicolas Ivanoff	Edge 540	All
28	Hannes Arch	Edge 540	All
31	Yoshihide Muroya	Edge 540	1–4, 6
36	Alejandro Maclean	MXS-R	All
55	Paul Bonhomme	Edge 540	All
84	Pete McLeod	Edge 540	All
95	Matt Hall	MXS-R	1–4, 6
99	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 are Martin Šonka from 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	UAE	AUS	BRA	CAN	USA	GER	Total Points
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
Rank	Pilot	UAE	AUS	BRA	CAN	USA	GER	Total Points

(*) 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) of 15 April 2010 Brazilian pilot Adilson Kindlemann crashed his MXS-R^[5] aircraft into the Swan River, 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 is the first South American to contest the Air Race and is three-times Brazilian aerobatics champion(Unlimited category). He has 18 years aerobatics experience, over 11,000 hours flight time, about 1,200 hours of aerobatics, and has performed over 300 shows in Brazil, as detailed on the official Red Bull Air Race website.^[6]^[7]

During qualifying for the race in Windsor, Matt Hall nearly crashed his plane into the Detroit River.^[8] He lost lift in his plane after a series of high-G turns and dipped both wings and a wheel into the water before powering up and out of what could have been a bad wreck. His plane 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 died on 17 August 2010, when his plane crashed into the ground while performing a manoeuvre during a training exercise in Casarrubios del Monte.^[10]

References

↑ World Championship confirms one-year break in 2011
1 2 "Red Bull Plane Crashes into River". TheWest.com.au. 2010-04-15. Retrieved 2010-04-15.
↑ "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.
↑ "Final round of the World Championship 2010 in Portugal Cancelled". RedBullAirRace.com. July 7, 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
↑ "MX Aircraft News ", 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
↑ "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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