The 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the eighth official Red Bull Air Race World Championship series.

Paul Bonhomme Paul Bonhomme (born 22 September 1964) is a British aerobatics and commercial airliner pilot and owner/race pilot of Team Bonhomme, the Red Bull Air Race World Champion for 2015. Racing career Bonhomme was born into a family of aviators. His f ...

became champion for the second successive year, finishing each of the six rounds of the championship in the top three placings, two of which were victories.

Hannes Arch Hannes Arch (22 September 1967 – 8 September 2016) was an Austrian pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship from 2007 to 2016. Arch won the World Championship in the 2008 season. Early life Hannes Arch was born in Le ...

was the only other round winner, taking four victories but finished four points behind Bonhomme, after an eleventh-place finish in the season-opener in the United Arab Emirates.

Nigel Lamb Nigel Lamb (born 17 August 1956) is an English aerobatics pilot and the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Champion. Early life Lamb was born in the Eastern Highlands of Southern Rhodesia and was inspired to fly by his father, a Royal Air Force fi ...

finished third with three runner-up placings, and three fourth places. At the end of the season, Red Bull Air Race GmbH announced that the series would take a one-year break in 2011, to reorganize and strengthen development and commercial aspects of the series.

Aircraft and pilots

New pilots

Two new pilots joined the Red Bull Air Race Series for 2010 season as

Mike Mangold Michael Eugene Mangold (October 10, 1955 – December 6, 2015) was an American Boeing 767 and 757 commercial pilot for American Airlines and an aerobatics pilot. Mangold competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Series from 2004 through 2009, where ...

and

Glen Dell Glen Dell (9 April 1962 – 12 October 2013) was a South African commercial airline trainer and aerobatics pilot, who was qualified to race in the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in seasons 2008 and 2009. Biography Dell's father was a Wor ...

left the series. They were

Martin Šonka Martin Šonka (born 26 March 1978 in Dvůr Králové nad Labem) is a Czech aerobatics (unlimited) and a former fighter pilot in the Czech Air Force. He has raced in Red Bull Air Race World Championship since 2010, becoming the World Champion in th ...

from the Czech Republic and Adilson Kindlemann from Brazil.

Race calendar and results

Championship standings

(*) indicates the pilot received an extra point for the fastest time in Qualifying

Incidents

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'', February 11, 2010, Retrieved April 15, 2010 aircraft into the Swan River in Perth, Western Australia during practice. Rescuers were on the scene within one minute. Kindlemann was taken to

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where it was found that he had no serious injuries. It was only the previous day (14 April) that the pilots completed their underwater emergency training. Kindlemann was the first South American to contest the Air Race and was three-times Brazilian aerobatics champion (Unlimited category) when he joined the competition with 18 years aerobatics experience; over 11,000 hours flight time; and about 1,200 hours of aerobatics, as detailed on the official Red Bull Air Race website.Profile-Adilson Kindlemann
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'', April 15, 2010, Retrieved April 15, 2010 During qualifying for the race in Windsor, Matt Hall nearly crashed his aircraft into the

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. The aircraft lost lift after a series of high-G turns and dipped both wings and a wheel into the water before Hall powered up and out of what could have been a bad wreck. His aircraft was too damaged to continue and he was disqualified from competing both that weekend and the following race in New York.Australia's Race Pilot, Matt Hall will not compete in New York
/ref> Spanish pilot Alejandro Maclean was killed on 17 August, when his aircraft crashed into the ground while performing a manoeuvre during a training exercise at Casarrubios del Monte in Spain.

References

External links

Red Bull Air Race official website

Unofficial Air Race website

Smoke-On.com A Red Bull Air Race Fan Site

Bleacher Report's Red Bull Air Race Page
{{Red Bull Air Race World Series Red Bull Air Race World Championship seasons