Florian Bergér (pilot)

Florian Bergér
Surname	Florian Bergér
Born	March 31, 1989 in Eichstätt , Germany
Red Bull Air Race World Championship
plane	Edge 540 V2
Placements / titles
Placement (year)	05th (2015) Challenger 0 1st (2016) Challenger 0 1st (2017) Challenger 0 2nd (2018) Challenger

Florian Bergér (born March 31, 1989 , in Eichstätt , Germany ) is a German aerobatic pilot who has been competing in the Challenger Class of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship since the 2015 season .

Career

Beginnings

Bergér began his career with gliding. Today he is a pilot on the Airbus A320 at Lufthansa.

Competitive aerobatics

Bergér completed his aerobatic training at the flight school of the Red Bull Air Race Champion Matthias Dolderer in Tannheim and has represented his country in international competitions since 2014. Among other things, he achieved third place in the team competition of the European Championships in aerobatics and won several individual medals in the Unlimited category at German championships. He was German runner-up in 2016 and German champion in 2018 and 2019.

successes

Red Bull Air Race World Championship

When Bergér became part of the Challenger Class in 2015, he was one of the youngest pilots to ever fly in the Red Bull Air Race. Determined to further develop his air racing skills, he placed a total of ten podiums in his first three seasons. Highlights included his first race win in Spielberg, Austria, and triumph in his first home race at the Lausitzring in Germany (both in 2016). The winning streak continued in 2017 with victory in the race in San Diego in the USA. He later also triumphed in Budapest, the spiritual home of the Red Bull Air Race. Bergér will continue to develop in the 2018 season and try to get used to the new Challenger Class aircraft - an Edge 540 V2.

Florian Bergér is the first German pilot to win the Red Bull Air Race Challenger Cup title, and he is the only pilot in the world to have won it twice.

Bergér and Red Bull Air Race colleague Daniel Ryfa have been officially appointed stand-by master. You will move into the master class if one of the master pilots is absent for a long time or decides to get out.

Challenger Class

year	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	Points	Victories	rank
2015	4th	4th	DNP	6th	5	5	3		14th	0	5
2016	3	1	DNP	4th	2	1	DNP	CAN	28	2	1
2017	2	1	1	DNP 1)	DNP	2	2	4th	38	2	1
2018	1	DNP	2	DNP	DNP 2)	DNP	1	2	36	2	2
2019	1	DNP	1		1				-	3	-

(Legend: CAN = canceled; DNP = not participated; DNS = not started; DSQ = disqualified)

¹⁾ The originally planned race in Chiba was canceled and merged with the date of Kazan.

²⁾ The originally planned race in Chiba was canceled and merged with the Wiener Neustadt event.

Championships

date	run	Venues	class	rank	plane	Aircraft registration	Note
2010	10th Reinsdorf Challenge	Germany Reinsdorf	Advanced	5.	EA-300S	D-EVVV
2010	10th Brandenburgian Championship	Germany Reinsdorf	Advanced	3.	EA-300S	D-EVVV
2010	50th German Nationals	Germany Aschersleben	Intermediate	1.	EA-300S	D-EVVV
2013	53. German Nationals	Germany Aschersleben	Advanced	2.	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
2014 23-30 August	19th FAI European Aerobatic Championships	Hungary Bács-Kiskun Kecskemét county (Matkópuszta airport)	Unlimited	20th	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
			Freestyle	7th
2015 August 20-29	28th FAI World Aerobatic Championships	France Chateauroux	Unlimited	27.	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
2016 August 20-28	20th FAI European Aerobatic Championships	Czech Republic Moravská Třebová	Unlimited	17th	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
			Freestyle	7th
2016 July 17-23	56. German Nationals	Germany Ballenstedt	Unlimited	2.	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
			Freestyle	2.
2018 August 29 - 4	58. German Nationals	Germany Alkersleben	Unlimited	1.	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
2018 September 1-8	21st FAI European Aerobatic Championships	Czech Republic Jindřichův Hradec	Unlimited	15th	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
			Freestyle	6th
2019	59. German Nationals	Germany Ballenstedt	Unlimied Freestyle	1. 3.	EA-330SC	D-EVIX
2019 August 21st - 31st	30th FAI World Aerobatic Championships	France Chateauroux	Unlimited Freestyle	13. 9.	EA-330SC	D-EVIX

Web links

1. ↑ Red Bull Air Race: Florian Berger | Red Bull Air Race. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 14, 2018 ; accessed on February 7, 2018 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Eichstätt: Eichstätter Florian Bergér starts his third racing season on Sunday with the Red Bull Air Race in Abu Dhabi . In: donaukurier.de . ( donaukurier.de [accessed on February 7, 2018]).
3. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
4. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
5. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
6. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
7. ↑ Overall Results . Retrieved June 19, 2018.
8. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
9. ↑ 28th World Aerobatic Championships 2015 - Unlimited . Retrieved June 19, 2018.
10. ^ Contest Results . Retrieved June 19, 2018.
11. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
12. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
13. ↑ Contest Profile - Aerobatic Contest Archive . Retrieved June 23, 2018.
14. ↑ Contest Results: UNLimited . Retrieved October 13, 2018.
15. ↑ Contest Results: Overall Results . Retrieved September 15, 2018.
16. ↑ Contest Results: Final Freestyle - Final . Retrieved September 15, 2018.

• Florian Bergér on Facebook
• Profile of Florian Bergér on airrace.redbull.com
• Red Bull Air Race

Individual evidence