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2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series

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The 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series was the fifth Red Bull Air Race World Series season.

New pilots

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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.[1] This takes the number of pilots to 13.

Race calendar

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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.[2]

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 United States 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 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 United States United States of America
10 November 3 Swan River, Perth Australia Australia

Standings and results

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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 USA Mike Mangold 2 3 3 1 2 1 1 2 5 3 47
2 United Kingdom Paul Bonhomme 3 1 2 2 1 2 3 3 1 5 47
3 Hungary Péter Besenyei 1 5 1 5 3 3 4 4 6 7 31
4 USA Kirby Chambliss 4 6 4 3 5 5 2 5 2 6 28
5 United Kingdom Steve Jones 5 8 7 12 4 6 5 1 4 10 17
6 Spain Alejandro Maclean 7 2 5 4 7 4 7 8 8 4 16
7 France Nicolas Ivanoff 9 11 12 13 8 9 12 6 7 1 7
8 USA Michael Goulian 7 DNS 11 7 6 DNS 9 9 9 2 6
9 United Kingdom Nigel Lamb 11 7 8 8 10 7 6 7 3 8 5
10 Austria Hannes Arch 13 4 10 11 12 11 10 12 10 9 3
11 The Netherlands Frank Versteegh 6 10 6 6 9 8 8 11 12 12 3
12 Russia Sergey Rakhmanin 12 9 9 10 13 10 11 10 11 11 0
13 Germany Klaus Schrodt 9 12 13 9 11 12 13 13 13 13 0

Legend:

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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

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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

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  1. ^ "Aviation News". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
  2. ^ Red Bull Race
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