2017 Red Bull Air Race of Budapest

The 2017 Red Bull Air Race of Budapest was the fourth round of the 2017 Red Bull Air Race World Championship season, the eleventh season of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.[1] The event was held on the Danube in Budapest, Hungary.

Race Track

Race Track

Master Class

Qualification

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	84	Pete McLeod	59.508
2	31	Yoshihide Muroya	59.950
3	18	Petr Kopfstein	1:01.296
4	8	Martin Sonka	1:01.345
5	95	Matt Hall	1:01.431
6	99	Michael Goulian	1:01.541
7	10	Kirby Chambliss	1:01.546
8	12	Francois Le Vot	1:02.444
9	27	Nicolas Ivanoff	1:02.515
10	11	Mikael Brageot	1:02.588
11	37	Peter Podlunsek	1:03.818
12	5	Cristian Bolton	1:05.235	+2sec^1
13	21	Matthias Dolderer	DNF^2
14	26	Juan Velarde	DNF^3

• ^1 Incorrect passing (Incorrect Level Flying) at gate 8 [2]
• ^2 Exceeding Maximum G in gate 13 [2]
• ^3 Exceeding Maximum G in gate 7 [2]

Round of 14

Heat Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two 1 Mikaël Brageot 1:01.970 1:02.336 Matt Hall 2 Peter Podlunsek DNS^1 1:02.138 Martin Sonka 3 Nicolas Ivanoff 1:00.908 DNF ^2 Michael Goulian 4 Cristian Bolton 1:03.356 1:01.872 Petr Kopfstein 5 Francois Le Vot 1:02.529 1:01.786 Kirby Chambliss 6 Matthias Dolderer DNF ^3 1:00.572 Yoshihide Muroya 7 Juan Velarde 1:02.484 1:01.033 Pete McLeod

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out Fastest loser, qualified

• ^1 due to technical issues[3]
• ^2 Exceeding Maximum G in gate 18 [3]
• ^3 Exceeding Maximum G in gate 7 [3]

Round of 8

Heat Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two 8 Petr Kopfstein 1:02.448^1 1:01.214 Kirby Chambliss 9 Mikael Brageot 1:03.027^2 1:02.949 Pete McLeod 10 Martin Sonka 1:00.428 1:03.849^3 Nicolas Ivanoff 11 Matt Hall DNF^4 1:04.750^5 Yoshihide Muroya

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out

• ^1 Incorrect passing (Sinking in the gate) at gate 19 [4]
• ^2 Incorrect passing (Climbing in the gate) at gate 7 [4]
• ^3 Incorrect passing (Incorrect Level Flying) at gate 17 [4]
• ^4 Exceeding Maximum G in gate 7 [4]
• ^5 Incorrect passing (Sinking in the gate) at gate 8 [4]

Final 4

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	10	Kirby Chambliss	1:00.632
2	84	Pete McLeod	1:00.740
3	31	Yoshihide Muroya	1:01.188
4	8	Martin Sonka	1:01.699	+2sec^1

• ^1 Incorrect passing (Climbing in the gate) at Gate 18 [5]

Challenger Class

Results

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	62	Florian Berger	1:09.946
2	6	Luke Czepiela	1:13.515
3	17	Daniel Ryfa	1:14.735	+2sec^1
4	15	Baptiste Vignes	1:15.048
5	7	Kenny Chiang	1:17.042	+4sec^2
6	78	Daniel Genevey	1:20.649	+4sec^3

• ^1 Incorrect passing (Incorrect Level Flying) at gate 3 [6]
• ^2 Incorrect passing (Incorrect Level Flying) at gate 6, Incorrect passing (Climbing in the gate) at gate 18 [6]
• ^3 Incorrect passing (Flying too high) at gate 5, Incorrect passing (Incorrect Level Flying) at gate 11 [6]

Standings after the event

Master Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Yoshihide Muroya 39 2 Martin Sonka 37 3 Pete McLeod 26 4 Kirby Chambliss 25 5 Petr Kopfstein 23 6 Matthias Dolderer 23 7 Juan Velarde 15 8 Michael Goulian 14 9 Nicolas Ivanoff 14 10 Peter Podlunsek 12 11 Matt Hall 11 12 Mikael Brageot 9 13 Cristian Bolton 4 14 Francois Le Vot 4

Challenger Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Florian Berger 28 2 Daniel Ryfa 16 3 Luke Czepiela 14 4 Kevin Coleman 10 5 Mélanie Astles 6 6 Baptiste Vignes 6 7 Daniel Genevey 4 8 Ben Murphy 4 9 Kenny Chiang 2

References

1. "Budapest Red Bull Air Race". Retrieved 5 July 2017.
2. "McLeod is magic in Budapest Qualifying". Retrieved 2017-07-09.
3. "Muroya set the pace in Round of 14". Retrieved 2017-07-09.
4. "Sonka fastest in Round of 8". Retrieved 2017-07-09.
5. "Chambliss cruises to top spot in Budapest". Retrieved 2017-07-09.
6. "Bergér smashes track record to take Challenger win". Retrieved 2017-07-09.

External links

• Red Bull Air Race of Budapest Result