Red Bull Air Race 2017 - Kazan
Russia will see its first race in the history of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship when the series arrives in Kazan on 22-23 July 2017. Known as the 'Sports Capital of Russia', the city has hosted iconic events as the World Fencing Championship, the World Aquatics Championship and is a host city for both the 2017 Confederations Cup and the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Follow the Red Bull Air Race here!
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Thanks for the livestream & the updates RR. We will be back tomorrow for race day. G'night -
Pete McLeod: "It felt good out there and it went to plan. I just went max risk on everything second time and was able to fly clean. I was surprised to hear the 54s. That's pretty fast. I think I'm flying efficiently out there. I hit a couple of pylons on Friday so it's not that easy a track. You don't get any points for Qualifying but ultimately tomorrow's a new day. I won't be doing my Q2 run in the first run tomorrow, it's too much of a risk." -
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KAZAN MASTER CLASS QUALIFYING QUICK RESULTS:
MCLEOD
SONKA
IVANOFF
CHAMBLISS
GOULIAN
HALL
KOPFSTEIN
PODLUNSEK
MUROYA
VELARDE
DOLDERER
BOLTON
LE VOT
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Ok so no climbing or descending in the gates today? The last several races have seen some big upsets due to judging most notably with Matt Hall and Martin Sonka. Neither of their "penalties" were as bad as Podlunsek today in one of his runs 1st VTM coming out descending through the gate. Ivanoff who climbed in his first VTM entry or Valarde who also was descending coming out of one of his VTMs. So lets get some consistency. Judges should be beyond suspicion! Seeing as a lot of the calls have set up one specific pilot I don't see that they are. Let's get a good race tomorrow!
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CHALLENGER CUP OFFICIAL STARTLIST (CHIBA RACE):
CHIANG
GENEVEY
MURPHY
ASTLES
CZEPIELA
VIGNES
COLEMAN
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How can we get real time results of the challenger class race ?
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why is there no live webcast for challenger cup?
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Now it's the Challengers! We don't have a live broadcast for you today, but tomorrow's race will be shown :)
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Here comes Kenny Chiang! He's into the track and he will set the pace for his fellow Challengers in Kazan
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- Pylon Hit!
And there's the first pylon hit at Gate 4! - Pylon Hit!
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That's 3s in penalties and a 1:10.196 for the pilot from Hong Kong
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She stopped the clock in 1:05.924, which was ahead of Chiang and Czepiela
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- Pylon Hit!
Astles is in the track and it's not the run she would have hoped, with a pylon hit at Gate 4! - Pylon Hit!
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That will make hard work for her now she has 3s in penalties to overcome
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But the split times are showing that she's making up time... but it's not enough for the win... 1:09.771 for Astles and she's in 3rd place with 4 pilots to fly
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Poland's Luke Czepiela is the next pilot to fly... he finished in 3rd in FP3 and is a definite contender
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He's currently in 3rd place overall on 14 points and had a good result in Budapest, where he finished in 2nd behind Florian Berger
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So the pylon is back up and we'll have Czepiela on his way any minute now...
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Bravo les français! Vous n'êtes pas premiers, certes, mais vous n'êtes pas derniers. ; )
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We'll be back tomorrow with the race action from 1200 local time and hope you'll join us again!
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Welcome back to Kazan and Race Day here in Russia...
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