2016 Red Bull Air Race of Abu Dhabi

The 2016 Red Bull Air Race of Abu Dhabi was the first round of the 2016 Red Bull Air Race World Championship season, the eleventh season of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.[1] The event was held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates.

Race Track

Race Track

Master Class

Qualification

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	95	Matt Hall	58.079
2	21	Matthias Dolderer	58.268
3	99	Michael Goulian	59.184
4	31	Yoshihide Muroya	59.242
5	27	Nicolas Ivanoff	59.523
6	22	Hannes Arch	59.764
7	9	Nigel Lamb	1:00.160
8	84	Pete McLeod	1:00.424
9	26	Juan Velarde	1:01.008
10	8	Martin Šonka	1:01.503	+2secs
11	18	Petr Kopfstein	1:01.972
12	12	François Le Vot	1:02.135
13	37	Peter Podlunšek	1:02.154	+2secs
14	10	Kirby Chambliss	DNF

Round of 14

Heat Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two 1 Martin Šonka (10) DSQ 1:02.628^1 Nicolas Ivanoff (5) 2 Petr Kopfstein (11) 1:05.009 1:01.154 Yoshihide Muroya (4) 3 Juan Velarde (9) 1:01.684^1 1:01.607^1 Hannes Arch (6) 4 François Le Vot (12) 1:00.752 1:00.653 Michael Goulian (3) 5 Pete McLeod (8) 1:00.408 1:01.722^2 Nigel Lamb (7) 6 Peter Podlunšek (13) 1:04.992^1 1:02.301^1 Matthias Dolderer (2) 7 Kirby Chambliss (14) 59.864 1:01.299^2 Matt Hall (1)

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out Fastest loser, qualified

^1 Pilot received 2 seconds in penalties
^2 Pilot received 3 seconds in penalties

Round of 8

Heat Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two 1 François Le Vot (12) 1:03.748 DNF Yoshihide Muroya (4) 2 Hannes Arch (6) 58.729 59.449 Michael Goulian (3) 3 Pete McLeod (8) DNF 58.734 Matthias Dolderer (2) 4 Kirby Chambliss (14) 59.260 58.601 Nicolas Ivanoff (5)

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out

Final 4

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	27	Nicolas Ivanoff	58.550
2	21	Matthias Dolderer	58.660
3	12	François Le Vot	1:02.281	+2secs
4	22	Hannes Arch	DSQ

Challenger Class

Results

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	17	Daniel Ryfa	1:06.308
2	48	Kevin Coleman	1:06.945
3	62	Florian Berger	1:08.325
4	24	Ben Murphy	1:08.390
5	6	Luke Czepiela	1:09.206
6	77	Francis Barros	DSQ

Standings after the event

Master Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Nicolas Ivanoff 15 2 Matthias Dolderer 12 3 François Le Vot 9 4 Hannes Arch 7 5 Kirby Chambliss 6

Challenger Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Daniel Ryfa 10 2 Kevin Coleman 8 3 Florian Berger 6 4 Ben Murphy 4 5 Luke Czepiela 2

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

References

1. "Results - Abu Dhabi". Retrieved 12 March 2016.

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