2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series

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2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series
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The 2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series was the fifth Red Bull Air Race World Series season.

New pilots

Sergey Rakhmanin of Russia and Austrian Hannes Arch were chosen to join the 2007 series after completing a qualification course in October 2006, held in Arizona, United States.^[1] This takes the number of pilots to 13.

Sergey Stanislavovich Rakhmanin is a Russian powered and glider aerobatic pilot and flight instructor.

Hannes Arch 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.

Arizona is a state in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the Western and the Mountain states. It is the sixth largest and the 14th most populous of the 50 states. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix. Arizona shares the Four Corners region with Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico; its other neighboring states are Nevada and California to the west and the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest.

Race calendar

Three locations more were added to the race calendar in 2007, extending the number of rounds from 9 to 12. However, only 10 races were run due to cancellation of the legs in Barcelona, Spain and Acapulco, Mexico. The first race was held on April 6 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates and the last one was on November 3 in Perth, Australia.^[2]

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2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series Race Calendar
Leg	Date	Place	Country
1	April 6	Port of Mina' Zayid, Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates
2	April 21	Enseada de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro	Brazil
3	May 12	Monument Valley, Arizona	United States of America
4	June 2	Golden Horn, Istanbul	Turkey
5	July 15	Interlaken, Bern	Switzerland
6	July 29	River Thames, London	United Kingdom
7	August 20	River Danube, Budapest	Hungary
8	September 1	River Douro, Porto	Portugal
9	September 22	San Diego, California	United States of America
10	November 3	Swan River, Perth	Australia

Standings and results

2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series Standings and Results
Rank	Pilot	UAE	BRA	United States	TUR	SUI	GBR	HUN	POR	United States	AUS	Total Points
1	Mike Mangold	2	3	3	1	2	1	1	2	5	3	47
2	Paul Bonhomme	3	1	2	2	1	2	3	3	1	5	47
3	Péter Besenyei	1	5	1	5	3	3	4	4	6	7	31
4	Kirby Chambliss	4	6	4	3	5	5	2	5	2	6	28
5	Steve Jones	5	8	7	12	4	6	5	1	4	10	17
6	Alejandro Maclean	7	2	5	4	7	4	7	8	8	4	16
7	Nicolas Ivanoff	9	11	12	13	8	9	12	6	7	1	7
8	Michael Goulian	7	DNS	11	7	6	DNS	9	9	9	2	6
9	Nigel Lamb	11	7	8	8	10	7	6	7	3	8	5
10	Hannes Arch	13	4	10	11	12	11	10	12	10	9	3
11	Frank Versteegh	6	10	6	6	9	8	8	11	12	12	3
12	Sergey Rakhmanin	12	9	9	10	13	10	11	10	11	11	0
13	Klaus Schrodt	9	12	13	9	11	12	13	13	13	13	0

Legend:

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Mike Mangold won on countback over Paul Bonhomme. Both pilots had the same number of points, first, second, third and fifth places, resulting in the results of qualification being taken into account.

Michael Eugene "Mike" Mangold 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 he repeatedly placed first and won the World Championship in the 2005 World Series, as well as the 2007 World Series. His nickname and call sign in the military was "Mongo".

Paul Bonhomme is a British aerobatics and commercial airliner pilot and owner/race pilot of Team Bonhomme, the Red Bull Air Race World Champion for 2015.

Aircraft

2007 Red Bull Air Race World Series Aircraft
Aircraft	Pilot
Zivko Edge 540	Hannes Arch Péter Besenyei Paul Bonhomme Kirby Chambliss Michael Goulian Steve Jones Alejandro Maclean Mike Mangold Sergey Rakhmanin Frank Versteegh
MX2	Nigel Lamb
CAP-232	Nicolas Ivanoff
Extra 300SR	Nicolas Ivanoff
Extra 300S	Klaus Schrodt

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References

↑ "Aviation News". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-01-11.
↑ Red Bull Race

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[1] "Aviation News". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-01-11.

[2] Red Bull Race