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2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series
The 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series was the fifth Red Bull Air Race World Series season.
New pilots
Sergey Rakhmanin of Russia and Austrian Hannes Arch were chosen to join the 2007 series after completing a qualification course in October 2006, held in Arizona, United States. This takes the number of pilots to 13.
Race calendar
Three locations more were added to the race calendar in 2007, extending the number of rounds from 9 to 12. However, only 10 races were run due to cancellation of the legs in Barcelona, Spain and Acapulco, Mexico. The first race was held on April 6 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and the last one was on November 3 in Perth, Australia.
| 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Race Calendar | Leg | Date | Place | Country | ||
| 1 | April 6 | Port of Mina' Zayid, Abu Dhabi | United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates | |||
| 2 | April 21 | Enseada de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro | Brazil Brazil | |||
| 3 | May 12 | Monument Valley, Arizona | USA United States of America | |||
| 4 | June 2 | Golden Horn, Istanbul | Turkey Turkey | |||
| 5 | July 15 | Interlaken, Bern | Switzerland Switzerland | |||
| 6 | July 29 | River Thames, London | [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg | 20px | United Kingdom]] United Kingdom | |
| 7 | August 20 | River Danube, Budapest | Hungary Hungary | |||
| 8 | September 1 | River Douro, Porto | Portugal Portugal | |||
| 9 | September 22 | San Diego, California | USA United States of America | |||
| 10 | November 3 | Swan River, Perth | Australia Australia |
Standings and results
| 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standings and Results | Rank | Pilot | UAE United Arab Emirates | BRA Brazil | United States United States | TUR Turkey | SUI Switzerland | GBR United Kingdom | HUN Hungary | POR Portugal | United States United States | AUS Australia | Total | ||
| Points | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg | 20px | USA]] Mike Mangold | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 47 | |
| 2 | [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg | 20px | United Kingdom]] Paul Bonhomme | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 47 | |
| 3 | [[Image:Flag of Hungary.svg | 20px | Hungary]] Péter Besenyei | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 31 | |
| 4 | [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg | 20px | USA]] Kirby Chambliss | 4 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 28 | |
| 5 | [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg | 20px | United Kingdom]] Steve Jones | 5 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 17 | |
| 6 | [[Image:Flag of Spain.svg | 20px | Spain]] Alejandro Maclean | 7 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 16 | |
| 7 | [[Image:Flag of France.svg | 20px | France]] Nicolas Ivanoff | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 | |
| 8 | [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg | 20px | USA]] Michael Goulian | 7 | DNS | 11 | 7 | 6 | DNS | 9 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 6 | |
| 9 | [[Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg | 20px | United Kingdom]] Nigel Lamb | 11 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 5 | |
| 10 | [[Image:Flag of Austria.svg | 20px | Austria]] Hannes Arch | 13 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 3 | |
| 11 | [[Image:Flag of the Netherlands.svg | 20px | The Netherlands]] Frank Versteegh | 6 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 3 | |
| 12 | [[Image:Flag of Russia.svg | 20px | Russia]] Sergey Rakhmanin | 12 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 0 | |
| 13 | [[Image:Flag of Germany.svg | 20px | Germany]] Klaus Schrodt | 9 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 0 |
Legend:
- DNS: Did not show
Mike Mangold won on countback over Paul Bonhomme. Both pilots had the same number of points, first, second, third and fifth places, resulting in the results of qualification being taken into account.
Aircraft
| 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series | ||
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft | Aircraft | Pilot |
| Zivko Edge 540 | Hannes Arch | |
| Péter Besenyei | ||
| Paul Bonhomme | ||
| Kirby Chambliss | ||
| Michael Goulian | ||
| Steve Jones | ||
| Alejandro Maclean | ||
| Mike Mangold | ||
| Sergey Rakhmanin | ||
| Frank Versteegh | ||
| MX2 | Nigel Lamb | |
| CAP-232 | Nicolas Ivanoff | |
| Extra 300SR | Nicolas Ivanoff | |
| Extra 300S | Klaus Schrodt |
References
References
- "Aviation News".
- [http://www.redbullairrace.com/race2007.php Red Bull Race]
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