Join our Newsletter:

Your Email for our daily free newsletter:

Follow us!

Follow AviationNews_eu on Twitter Follow AviationNews_eu on FacebookAdd to Google More photo's on Flickr

Support us!, $ 0.50

Calendar

May 2007
M T W T F S S
« Apr   Jun »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  

Feedburner

«
»

Peter Besenyei winner Monument Valley

Published May 13, 2007 | By Marcel van Leeuwen

mv_winner4.jpg

Peter Besenyei beat Paul Bonhomme in the final of Monument Valley air race 2007. In the consolation race for third place, Mike Mangold of USA beat Kirby Chambliss of USA. Mike Mangold had the fastest time (58.4 seconds) in the quarter-final against the flying Dutchman Versteegh.British pilot Steve Jones escaped injury in the quarter-finals after crashing heavily into an Air Gate just a few feet above the ground, an incident that left his plane slightly damaged and forced him to retire.

Elimination Round

Paul Bonhomme (GBR) set the pace in the first knock-out round of the Red Bull Air Race World Series at Monument Valley on Saturday, earning the top spot for the quarter-finals round with a time of 01:00.01 minutes. Bonhomme just beat Alejandro Maclean (+0,16 seconds). The slowest four of the 12 pilots who qualified for Saturday’s race were eliminated in the first round. Sergey Rakhmanin (RUS) was ninth, Hannes Arch (AUT) was 10th, Michael Goulian (USA) was 11th and Nicolas Ivanoff (FRA) took 12th.

Race Results Overall

Rank 

 Name Nation Team Elim.Time Pen Max. G Max. Speed
1  Besenyei Peter HUN Red Bull (01:02.76) (3) 9,8 g 354,35 km/h
2  Bonhomme Paul GBR Matador (01:00.01) (0) 9,3 g 354,98 km/h
3  Mangold Mike USA Cobra (01:01.47) (0) 9,1 g 352,54 km/h
4  Chambliss Kirby USA Red Bull (01:00.46) (0) 9,7 g 362,04 km/h
5  Maclean Alejandro ESP MRT (01:00.17) (0) 9,3 g 360,41 km/h
6  Versteegh Frank NED Lobo (01:00.55) (0) 9,2 g 353,26 km/h
7  Jones Steve GBR Matador (01:02.00) (0) 9,0 g 355,98 km/h
8  Lamb Nigel GBR Breitling (01:03.62) (0) 9,4 g 361,13 km/h
9  Rakhmanin Sergey RUS Dragon Racing (01:04.73) (0) 9,1 g 355,34 km/h
10  Arch Hannes AUT Cobra (01:05.12) (0) 8,4 g 350,82 km/h
11  Goulian Michael USA Dragon Racing (01:07.16) (3) 8,6 g 347,89 km/h
12  Ivanoff Nicolas FRA MRT (01:11.13) (0) 8,3 g 357,24 km/h
13  Schrodt Klaus GER Lobo     9,0 g 358,42 km/h

 Monument Valley points

Rank

 Name Nation Team Points TaG All TaG Race
1  Besenyei Peter HUN  Red Bull 6    
2  Bonhomme Paul GBR  Matador 5    
3  Mangold Mike USA  Cobra 4    
4  Chambliss Kirby USA  Red Bull 3    
5  Maclean Alejandro ESP  MRT 2    
6  Versteegh Frank NED  Lobo 1    
7  Jones Steve GBR  Matador 0  1  1
8  Lamb Nigel GBR  Breitling 0    
9  Rakhmanin Sergey RUS  Dragon Racing 0    
10  Arch Hannes AUT  Cobra 0    
11  Goulian Michael USA  Dragon Racing 0    
12  Ivanoff Nicolas FRA  MRT 0    
13  Schrodt Klaus GER  Lobo 0  1  

TaG All: Touching a Gate (Races + Trainings)
TaG Race: Touching a Gate (Qualifying, Elimination and Race Finals)

 World Series Single Standings

Rank

 Name Nation Team Points TaG All TaG Race
1  Bonhomme Paul  GBR  Matador  15    
2  Besenyei Peter  HUN  Red Bull  14  3  2
3  Mangold Mike  USA  Cobra  13    
4  Maclean Alejandro  ESP  MRT  7    
5  Chambliss Kirby  USA  Red Bull  7  3  2
6  Arch Hannes  AUT  Cobra  3  1  1
7  Jones Steve  GBR  Matador  2  2  2
8  Versteegh Frank  NED  Lobo  2  3  2
9  Lamb Nigel  GBR  Breitling  0  3  2
10  Goulian Michael  USA  Dragon Racing  0  1  
11  Rakhmanin Sergey  RUS  Dragon Racing  0    
12  Ivanoff Nicolas  FRA  MRT  0    
13  Schrodt Klaus  GER  Lobo  0  7  2

TaG All: Touching a Gate (Races + Trainings)
TaG Race: Touching a Gate (Qualifying, Elimination and Race Finals)

Posted in Air Races

Comments are closed.

Login | Contact

Copyright AviationNews.eu © 2012. All Rights Reserved.

Designed by M. van Leeuwen.