2015 Red Bull Air Race of Budapest

The 2015 Red Bull Air Race of Budapest was the fourth round of the 2015 Red Bull Air Race World Championship season, the tenth season of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.[1] The event was held on the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary.

Austria's Hannes Arch took his second successive victory by 0.207 seconds ahead of championship leader Paul Bonhomme, with Martin Šonka completing the podium in third place. In the Challenger class, Daniel Ryfa took his second successive win by 0.227 seconds ahead of Mikaël Brageot, with Peter Podlunšek and Petr Kopfstein also finishing within a second of Ryfa.

Master Class

Qualification

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	95	Matt Hall	58.323
2	31	Yoshihide Muroya	59.011
3	22	Hannes Arch	59.328
4	84	Pete McLeod	59.480
5	10	Kirby Chambliss	59.496
6	9	Nigel Lamb	59.553
7	8	Martin Šonka	59.756
8	55	Paul Bonhomme	59.812
9	27	Nicolas Ivanoff	1:00.151
10	91	Péter Besenyei	1:00.862
11	12	François Le Vot	1:02.364
12	26	Juan Velarde	1:03.839	+2sec
13	21	Matthias Dolderer	1:03.974	+4sec
14	99	Michael Goulian	1:04.403	+4sec

Round of 14

Heat Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two 1 Péter Besenyei (10) 1:01.070 1:03.386^1 Kirby Chambliss (5) 2 François Le Vot (11) 1:05.976 1:02.866 Pete McLeod (4) 3 Nicolas Ivanoff (9) DNF DNF^2 Nigel Lamb (6) 4 Juan Velarde (12) 1:06.072^1 1:02.497 Hannes Arch (3) 5 Paul Bonhomme (8) 1:01.028 1:01.088 Martin Šonka (7) 6 Matthias Dolderer (13) 1:02.072 1:02.279 Yoshihide Muroya (2) 7 Michael Goulian (14) 1:04.953^1 58.400 Matt Hall (1)

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out Fastest loser, qualified

• ^1 Pilot received 2 seconds in penalties
• ^2 Pilot advanced as they were the higher-placed in qualifying

Round of 8

Heat Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two 1 Pete McLeod (4) 59.460 1:00.887 Péter Besenyei (10) 2 Hannes Arch (3) 1:02.746 DNF Nigel Lamb (6) 3 Paul Bonhomme (8) 1:00.521 1:02.116^1 Matthias Dolderer (13) 4 Matt Hall (1) 59.884 59.701 Martin Šonka (7)

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out Fastest loser, qualified

• ^1 Pilot received 2 seconds in penalties

Final 4

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	22	Hannes Arch	59.350
2	55	Paul Bonhomme	59.557
3	8	Martin Šonka	1:00.658
4	84	Pete McLeod	1:01.113

Challenger Class

Results

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	17	Daniel Ryfa	1:09.070
2	11	Mikaël Brageot	1:09.297
3	37	Peter Podlunšek	1:09.713
4	18	Petr Kopfstein	1:09.822
5	5	Cristian Bolton	1:11.686
6	62	Florian Berger	1:11.954

Standings after the event

Master Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Paul Bonhomme 34 2 Hannes Arch 29 Matt Hall 4 Martin Šonka 16 5 Pete McLeod 14

Challenger Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Daniel Ryfa 28 2 Petr Kopfstein 22 Cristian Bolton Mikaël Brageot 5 Peter Podlunšek 10

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

References

1. "Results - Budapest". Red Bull Air Race World Championship. Red Bull Air Race GmbH. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

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