Red Bull Air Race 2019

Red Bull Air Race World Championship
2019
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The Red Bull Air Race 2019 World Championship is the 14th season of a series of air races organized by Red Bull Air Race GmbH . There will be four races in the 2019 racing season. The stations are Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Kazan (Russia), Balaton (Hungary) and Chiba (Japan).

The end of the Red Bull Air Race series

On May 29, 2019, Red Bull announced that the Red Bull Air Race World Championship would not continue after the 2019 season. The reason given was that "unlike many other Red Bull events around the world, the Air Race failed to properly arouse public interest". In the 2019 season, instead of the eight originally planned races, only four will be held. These include Abu Dhabi, Kazan, Balaton and Chiba. The races in Indianapolis and Saudi Arabia have been canceled. Until May 2019, venues were still being sought for two more races.

Rule changes

Challenger Class

In previous seasons, after the penultimate race, only the Challenger Class pilots with the highest points to date were invited to the season finale. This year the final stop is a race like any other. Six pilots from the field of twelve start each race, and all pilots have to contest five races during the season. The pilot with the highest number of points at the end of the season will ultimately receive the title Challenger Cup Champion.

Air Race Pilots 2019

Master Class

No.	pilot	origin	plane
05	Cristian Bolton	Chile	Zivko Edge 540 V2
08th	Martin Šonka	Czech Republic	Zivko Edge 540 V3
10	Kirby Chambliss	United States	Zivko Edge 540 V3
11	Mikaël Brageot	France	MXS-R
12	François Le Vot	France	Zivko Edge 540 V3
18th	Petr headstone	Czech Republic	Zivko Edge 540 V3
21st	Matthias Dolderer	Germany	Zivko Edge 540 V3
26th	Juan Velarde	Spain	Zivko Edge 540 V2
27	Nicolas Ivanoff	France	Zivko Edge 540 V2
31	Yoshihide Muroya	Japan	Zivko Edge 540 V3
37	Ben Murphy	United Kingdom	Zivko Edge 540 V2
84	Pete McLeod	Canada	Zivko Edge 540 V3
95	Matt Hall	Australia	Zivko Edge 540 V3
99	Michael Goulian	United States	Zivko Edge 540 V2

Challenger Class

As in 2018, the standard aircraft for all Challenger Class pilots is the Zivko Edge 540 V2.

No.	pilot	origin
06th	Luke Czepiela	Poland
07th	Kenny Chiang	People's Republic of China
15th	Baptiste Vignes	France
17th	Daniel Ryfa	Sweden
32	Dario Costa	Italy
33	Mélanie Astles	France
48	Kevin Coleman	United States
62	Florian Bergér	Germany
77	Patrick Davidson	South Africa
	Patrick Strasser	Austria
25th	Sammy Mason	United States
87	Vito Wyprächtiger	Switzerland

Pilot change

The newcomers to the 2019 Challenger Class pilots are Sammy Mason ( ), Patrick Strasser ( ) and Vito Wyprächtiger ( ).

Racing calendar

At the beginning of the season, five exact locations of the eight races have been determined.

No.	date	run	Qualifying winner	winner	Second	Third	Overall leader	Winner Challenger
1	8th-9th February	Abu Dhabi	Yoshihide Muroya	Yoshihide Muroya	Martin Šonka	Michael Goulian	Yoshihide Muroya	R1: Florian Bergér R2: Florian Bergér
2	15.-16. June	Kazan	Mikaël Brageot	Yoshihide Muroya	Martin Šonka	Matt Hall	Yoshihide Muroya	R1: Kenny Chiang R2: Florian Bergér
3	13-14 July	Balaton	Martin Šonka	Matt Hall	Ben Murphy	Pete McLeod	Matt Hall	R1: Dario Costa R2: Daniel Ryfa
4th	7th-8th September	Chiba	Juan Velarde	Yoshihide Muroya	Kirby Chambliss	Matt Hall	Matt Hall	R1: deleted R2: deleted

championship

Master Class

Item	pilot	Abu Dhabi	Kazan	Balaton	Chiba	Points
1	Matt Hall	5	2	1	3	81
2	Yoshihide Muroya	1 1	1	12	1	80
3	Martin Šonka	2	3 2	4 1	13 2	68
4th	Pete McLeod	9 2	9	3	4th	50
5	Ben Murphy	13	5	2	8th	48
6th	Kirby Chambliss	8th	12	6th	2	48
7th	Nicolas Ivanoff	4th	7th	11	5	47
8th	Mikaël Brageot	7th	8 1	10 3	6th	44
9	Michael Goulian	3 3	10	7th	9	42
10	Juan Velarde	6th	11	5 2	10 1	39
11	François Le Vot	12	4 3	14th	7 3	34
12	Cristian Bolton	14th	6th	8th	11	27
13	Petr headstone	10	13	9	14th	10
14th	Matthias Dolderer	11	DNS	13	12	6th

  DNP: Not participated, DNS: Not started, DNF: Not finished, DSQ: Disqualified, CAN: Canceled

¹ 1. Qualifying

² 2nd qualifying

³ 3. Qualifying

Point system

run																Qualifying
placement	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th		1	2	3
Points	25th	22nd	20th	18th	14th	13	12	11	5	4th	3	2	1	0		3	2	1

Challenger Class

Item	pilot	Abu Dhabi		Kazan		Balaton		Chiba	Points deleted	Points
1	Florian Bergér	1	1	-	1	-	-	CAN		30th
2	Daniel Ryfa	-	-	3	-	2	1			24
3	Dario Costa	4th	5	-	-	1	2			24
4th	Mélanie Astles	2	2	-	-	-	5			18th
5	Kenny Chiang	-	-	1	3	-	-			16
6th	Sammy Mason	5	4th	2	5	-	-			16
7th	Patrick Davidson	-	-	6th	2	3	-			14th
8th	Kevin Coleman	6th	3	4th	-	-	-			10
9	Baptiste Vignes	-	-	-	4th	-	3			10
10	Luke Czepiela	3	6th	-	-	4th	-			10
11	Patrick Strasser	-	-	5	6th	-	4th			6th
12	Vito Wyprächtiger	-	-	-	-	5	6th			2

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

Point system

placement	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
Points	10	8th	6th	4th	2	0

Web links

Commons : Red Bull Air Race Series  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Red Bull Air Race (Official Homepage)
• Red Bull Air Race 2019 channel on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Red Bull Air Race will not continue after the 2019 season. Retrieved June 2, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Three new pilots in the Challenger Class. In: https://airrace.redbull.com . January 30, 2019, accessed February 13, 2019 . 
3. ↑ rules. In: https://airrace.redbull.com/ . Retrieved February 15, 2019 .