Sun, Sep 03, 2006
Wins Race With Help From Wind
50 mph winds forced
officials to cancel the 7th leg of the Red Bull Air Race World
Series in Longleat, England on Saturday, September 2nd. Under Red
Bull rules, qualifying results become official results in the event
a race is cancelled. That means British racer Paul Bonhomme's
qualifying run on Friday, the fastest of the group, earns him his
first Red Bull race win.
"It's such a shame the race couldn't take place but it would
have been impossible under these weather conditions", said
Bonhomme, "I'd rather have won it on the day but we've still got
San Francisco and Perth so I'll try my best to win there too". The
60,000 disappointed spectators who braved the rain and winds to
watch the race probably agree with you Paul!
Red Bull safety regulations set a maximum wind velocity of 28
mph for races. The racers must precisely maneuver around obstacles
at high speed while close to the ground -- windy conditions present
an unacceptable risk.
Flying his Edge 540, Bonhomme beat rival pilots with a time of
02:31.43. Hungary's Peter Besenyei came in second place with
02:35.39, followed closely by American Kirby Chambliss with
02:35.58.
Official race results are as
follows:
|
Race 7, Longleat 2.9.06
(based on qualifying results)
|
| 1 |
Paul Bonhomme |
GBR |
02:31.43 |
| 2 |
Peter
Besenyei |
HUN |
02:35.39 |
| 3 |
Kirby Chambliss |
USA |
02:35:58 |
| 4 |
Mike Mangold |
USA |
02:35.92 |
| 5 |
Michael Goulian |
USA |
02:38.41 |
| 6 |
Nigel Lamb |
GBR |
02:50.53 |
| 7 |
Alejandro Maclean |
ESP |
02:50.89 |
| 8 |
Klaus Schrodt |
GER |
02:51.79 |
| 9 |
Nicolas Ivanoff |
FRA |
02:52.87 |
| 10 |
Frank Versteegh |
NED |
02:55.26 |
| dq |
Steve Jones |
GBR |
dq |
|
World Series 2006 Overall
Standing
|
| 1 |
Kirby Chambliss |
USA |
28 points |
| 2 |
Mike Mangold |
USA |
24 |
| 2 |
Peter Besenyei |
HUN |
24 |
| 4 |
Paul Bonhomme |
GBR |
17 |
| 5 |
Michael Goulian |
USA |
8 |
| 6 |
Nicolas Ivanoff |
FRA |
7 |
| 7 |
Klaus Schrodt |
GER |
6 |
| 7 |
Steve Jones |
USA |
6 |
| 9 |
Alejandro Maclean |
ESP |
3 |
| 9 |
Nigel Lamb |
GBR |
3 |
| 11 |
Frank Versteegh |
NED |
0 |
The next race takes place in San Francisco on 7th October.
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