Nigel Lamb

Nigel Lamb
Nigel Lamb (2007)
Surname	Nigel Lamb
Born	August 17, 1956 in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe )
Red Bull Air Race
Racing team	Breitling Racing Team
plane	MXS-R
Placements / titles
champion	2014
Placement (year)	08th (2005) 09th (2006) 09th (2007) 07th (2008) 06th (2009) 03rd (2010) 1st (2014) 7th (2015) 4th (2016) 0 0 0

Nigel Lamb (born August 17, 1956 in Rhodesia ) is a British aerobatic pilot . The eight-time winner of the British Unlimited Aerobatic Championship is best known for his participation in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship , in which he was crowned world champion in 2014. Lamb has already appeared several times as a stunt flyer in film productions.

Life

Nigel Lamb at the Air Race in Chiba 2015

Nigel Lamb was born in 1956 in the British colony of Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe , where he grew up on a farm. His father had served as a pilot in the Royal Air Force during World War II . At the age of eleven, Nigel tried to join the Rhodesian Air Force for the first time, which he finally succeeded at age 18. Two years later he was allowed to navigate jet planes and helicopters . In 1980 he left Zimbabwe as an instructor and turned to aerobatics in England. In more than 30 years he has participated in around 1770 air shows in over 30 countries. As the only pilot to date, he has won the British National Unlimited Aerobatic Championship eight times in a row, and has been crowned British Freestyle Champion four times.

In 2005 he competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship , where he has continuously improved over the years and celebrated his first race win in Putrajaya in 2014 . In the same year, after five second places in a row, he won the world title ahead of Hannes Arch . The Lamb team relied on a Breitling MXS-R as an aircraft. After the 2016 season, Lamb retired from the Red Bull Air Race.

His flying skills earned Lamb engagements in commercial productions and even some feature films. These include Dark Blue World , The Tribunal or Flyboys - Heroes of the Skies . Lamb currently lives in Oxfordshire .

successes

National competitions

• British National Unlimited Aerobatic Champion 1986-1993
• Masters of Aerobatics South Africa, silver 1989
• Quadruple British Freestyle Champion

Red Bull Air Race World Championship

Race wins

• 2014: Malaysia ( Putrajaya ) 

Single results

year	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	rank
2005	DNP	DNP	DNP	DNP	9	8th	7th						0	8th
2006	9	6th	8th	C.	6th	DSQ	6th	8th	8th				3	9
2007	11	7th	8th	8th	C.	10	7th	6th	7th	3	C.	8th	5	9
2008	8th	6th	12	C.	8th	5	6th	5	C.	2			30th	7th
2009	4th	6th	8th	9	11	2							32	6th
2010	2	4th	2	4th	2	4th	C.	C.					55	3
2014	5	8th	1	2	2	2	2	2					62	1
2015	5	5	5	8th	5	12	6th	10					20th	7th
2016	10	3	4th	6th	6th	10	2	C.					37.75	4th

• DNP: did not participate
• DSQ: disqualified
• C: Race canceled

Filmography

• 2001: Dark Blue World
• 2002: The Tribunal
• 2006: Flyboys - Heroes of the Skies

Web links

Commons : Nigel Lamb  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• Nigel Lamb on the Red Bull Air Race website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nigel Lamb. Red Bull , accessed March 5, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Nigel Lamb - The Aircraft. Nigel Lamb, accessed March 5, 2016 . 
3. ^ Nigel Lamb: The Career of an Air Race Champion | Red Bull Air Race. Red Bull Air Race , October 19, 2016, accessed April 22, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Nigel Lamb - IMDb. IMDb , accessed on March 5, 2016 .