Wed, Jul 14, 2010
Red Bull Air Race World Champion Now To Be Crowned In
Germany
The Red Bull Air Race in Budapest has been cancelled this year
due to lengthy delays in the permissions process, the organization
announced with regret Monday. Interrupting a six-year tradition of
racing in the Hungarian capital, the Red Bull Air Race World
Champion will now be crowned after the final race of the 2010
season at EuroSpeedway in Lausitz, Germany August 7th and 8th.
Red Bull Budapest 2009
Budapest has been an annual fixture on the Red Bull Air Race
World Championship calendar since 2004 with enormous crowds of more
than 600,000 spectators watching the racing from the banks of the
Danube River. This year’s race, which would have been the
seventh annual race in Budapest, was set for August 19th and
20th.
Red Bull Air Race GmbH CEO Bernd Loidl expressed his
disappointment over the Budapest cancellation, which comes just a
week after a race cancellation in Portugal due to unexpected delays
in reaching a revised host city agreement. But he said he hoped
Budapest would be back on the calendar in 2011. Loidl also said the
2011 calendar will be announced after the final round in Germany
next month – which will include a return to New York after
the historic first race there in June.
Red Bull Budapest 2009
“Having safely and successfully executed the Red Bull Air
Race World Championship in Budapest for the past six years, it was
a tough decision to make,” Loidl said. “Following so
close to the cancellation of the Portugal race last week, we are
obviously disappointed and every effort will be made to see a
return to Budapest in 2011. Securing the future of the Red Bull Air
Race World Championship is paramount and making tough decisions is
part of that process. We look forward to announcing the 2011
calendar after the final round in Germany including a much
anticipated return to New York in the United States.”
The battle for the 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship
will remain intense at Lausitzring in Germany, where defending
champion Paul Bonhomme is holding a five-point lead over 2008
champion Hannes Arch of Austria. Arch has won three of the last
five races and is confident he can overtake Bonhomme down the home
stretch of the 2010 season to take his second title. Red Bull Air
Race has been an FAI-recognized world championship since 2005.
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