Péter Besenyei

Péter Besenyei
Péter Besenyei
Surname	Péter Besenyei
Born	June 8, 1956 , in Körmend , Hungary
Red Bull Air Race
plane	Edge 540 V3
Placements / titles
champion	2003
Placement (year)	01st (2003) 02nd (2004) 02nd (2005) 02nd (2006) 03rd (2007) 05th (2008) 08th (2009) 10th (2010) 11th (2014) 12th (2015)

Péter Besenyei (born June 8, 1956 in Körmend , Hungary ) is a Hungarian aerobatic pilot who participated in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2003 to 2015 .

Career

Beginnings

Besenyei was born in 1956 in Körmend, Hungary. Although his parents were opposed to this plan, he learned to fly at the age of 15 . Just five years later, he contested his first competition in motorized aerobatics . He was a flight instructor in aerobatics and a test pilot for the aviation authority in Hungary. In 2017 Besenyei was awarded the Leon Biancotto Award by the FAI , the highest honor in aerobatics.

He later became known to the general public for his spectacular stunts, for example in 1999 he was the first man to fly through a naturally formed cave in China and in 2001 he was the first to pass the Budapest Chain Bridge below its roadway in an airplane. Both stunts he increased after passage in a normal attitude by a repeat in inverted flight .

Competitive aerobatics

With two world championship titles and a number of other international successes, he is considered one of the best stunt pilots in the world, as well as the inventor of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship , the concept of which he developed - at the suggestion of the main sponsor, the Red Bull company - and in which he also took part .

Besenyei has already flown all aircraft that were used in the Red Bull Air Race, including the Zivko Edge 540 , the Extra 300 and the MXS-R . He was also closely involved in the development of a new aircraft that made its debut in the middle of the 2010 season under the name Corvus Racer.

successes

Péter Besenyei with his Extra 300 (HA-PET), 2004 in Gloucestershire, England

• Austrian championship winner: 1982
• Hungarian champion: 1986 to 1993
• European Champion: 1995
• World Grand Prix Champion: 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001
• World champion: 1994 and 2000

Honors

• Gold Medal of the President of the Republic of Hungary (awarded by President Árpád Göncz , 1996)
• Received the "The Leon Biancotto Aerobatics Diploma" award (presented by the FAI , 2017)

Red Bull Air Race World Championship

Péter Besenyei at the Red Bull Air Race World Championship
year	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	Victories	rank
2003	1	1											6th	2	1
2004	3	3	3										12	0	2
2005	1	2	2	1	3	4th	4th						32	2	2
2006	3	1	2	CAN	3	DSQ	2	2	1				35	2	2
2007	1	5	1	5	CAN	3	3	4th	4th	6th	CAN	7th	31	2	3
2008	4th	8th	5	CAN	6th	4th	5	7th	CAN	7th			34	0	5
2009	10	4th	DNS	10	4th	8th							24	0	8th
2010	3	10	11	10	8th	9	CAN	CAN					21st	0	10
Series was not held between 2011 and 2013
2014	10	11	7th	7th	7th	12	12	12					6th	0	11
2015	7th	13	12	6th	6th	8th	12	13					9	0	12

( Legend: DNP = did not participate; DNS = did not start; DSQ = disqualified; CAN = canceled)

Web links

Commons : Péter Besenyei  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of Péter Besenyei
• Profile of Péter Besenyei on http://www.redbullairrace.com/
• Profile of Péter Besenyei on http://www.flyingbulls.at/
• Peter Besenyei - Legend Of The Red Bull Air Race on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Red Bull Air Race: Peter Besenyei | Red Bull Air Race. Retrieved January 21, 2018 (de-US). 
2. ^ Peter Besenyei | The Flying Bulls. Retrieved January 21, 2018 . 
3. ↑ View: Peter Besenyei . ( blick.ch [accessed on January 21, 2018]).
4. ↑ SPEEDWEEK profile of Péter Besenyei. Retrieved on January 21, 2018 (German).