2019 Red Bull Air Race World Championship

The 2019 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the fourteenth and final Red Bull Air Race World Championship series. Red Bull has decided not to continue the Red Bull Air Race World Championship beyond the 2019 season.^[1]

Aircraft and pilots[]

Master Class[]

No.	Pilot	Aircraft	Rounds
5	Cristian Bolton	Zivko Edge 540 V2	All
11	Mikaël Brageot	MX Aircraft MXS	All
10	Kirby Chambliss	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
21	Matthias Dolderer	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
99	Michael Goulian	Zivko Edge 540 V2	All
95	Matt Hall	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
27	Nicolas Ivanoff	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
18	Petr Kopfstein	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
12	François Le Vot	Zivko Edge 540 V2	All
84	Pete McLeod	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
31	Yoshihide Muroya	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
24	Ben Murphy	Zivko Edge 540 V2	All
8	Martin Šonka	Zivko Edge 540 V3	All
26	Juan Velarde	Zivko Edge 540 V2	All

Challenger Class[]

• All Challenger Cup Pilots used a Zivko Edge 540 V2.^[2]

No.	Pilot	Rounds
33	Mélanie Astles	1, 3
62	Florian Bergér	1–2, 4
7		2, 4
48		1–2, 4
32	Dario Costa	1, 3
6		1, 3–4
77		2–3
25		1, 3
17	Daniel Ryfa	2–3
23		2–3
15		2–4
87		3–4

Pilot changes

• USA's , Austrian and Swiss will make their debuts in the Challenger Class. ^[3]

Race calendar and results[]

On 23 January 2019, it was announced that Red Bull Air Race will be held in Chiba on September 7th and 8th at the Muroya's kickoff meeting held in Tokyo. The eight-event calendar for the 2019 season was announced on 29 January 2019.^[4]

Round	Country	Location	Date	Fastest Qualifying	Winning Pilot	Winning Aircraft	Winning Challenger
1	United Arab Emirates	Abu Dhabi	8–9 February	Yoshihide Muroya	Yoshihide Muroya	Zivko Edge 540 V3	R1: Florian Bergér R2: Florian Bergér
2	Russia	Kazan, Tatarstan	15–16 June	Mikaël Brageot	Yoshihide Muroya	Zivko Edge 540 V3	R1: R2: Florian Bergér
3	Hungary	Zamárdi, Lake Balaton[5]	13–14 July	Martin Šonka	Matt Hall	Zivko Edge 540 V3	R1: Dario Costa R2: Daniel Ryfa
4	Japan	Makuhari, Chiba	7–8 September	Juan Velarde	Yoshihide Muroya	Zivko Edge 540 V3	R1: cancelled R2: cancelled

Races in Indianapolis, USA and Saudi Arabia which were to be held in October and November respectively were cancelled. Two more planned races, one in Europe and the other in Asia, did not have a venue at the time of the calendar reveal.

Championship standings[]

Master Class[]

Master Class Qualifying scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd
Points	3	2	1

Master Class scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th
Points	25	22	20	18	14	13	12	11	5	4	3	2	1	0

Pos. Pilot Points 1 Matt Hall 5 2 1 3 81 2 Yoshihide Muroya 1 1 1 12 1 80 3 Martin Šonka 2 3 2 4 1 13 2 68 4 Pete McLeod 9 2 9 3 4 50 5 Ben Murphy 13 5 2 8 48 6 Kirby Chambliss 8 12 6 2 48 7 Nicolas Ivanoff 4 7 11 5 47 8 Mikaël Brageot 7 8 1 10 3 6 44 9 Michael Goulian 3 3 10 7 9 42 10 Juan Velarde 6 11 5 2 10 1 39 11 François Le Vot 12 4 3 14 7 3 34 12 Cristian Bolton 14 6 8 11 27 13 Petr Kopfstein 10 13 9 14 10 14 Matthias Dolderer 11 DNS 13 12 6 Pos. Pilot Points

Colour Result Gold Winner Silver 2nd place Bronze 3rd place Green Points finish Blue Non-points finish Non-classified finish (NC) Purple Retired (Ret) Red Did not qualify (DNQ) Did not pre-qualify (DNPQ) Black Disqualified (DSQ) White Did not start (DNS) Withdrew (WD) Race cancelled (C) Blank Did not practice (DNP) Did not arrive (DNA) Excluded (EX) Bold – Fastest Qualifying Pilot

Challenger Class[]

Challenger Class scoring system

Position	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6-8th
Points	10	8	6	4	2	0

Pos.	Pilot					Drop	Points
1	Florian Bergér	1	1				20
2	Mélanie Astles	2		4			12
3		3	4				10
4	Sammy Mason	4	8				12
5	Dario Costa	5		1			12
6	Luke Czepiela	6		5			2
-	Baptiste Vignes	-	2	3			14
-	Kenny Chiang	-	1				10
-	Daniel Ryfa	-	6	1			10
-	Patrick Davidson	-	2	3			14
-	Patrick Strasser	-	5	4			6
-	Vito Wyprächtiger	-		6			0
Pos.	Pilot					Drop	Points

References[]

External links[]

• Red Bull Air Race official website