レッドブル・エアレースが2014年に復活 チーム室屋も参戦決定！！

世界最速のモータースポーツ『Red Bull Air Race World Championship

（レッドブル・エアレース・ワールドチャンピオンシップ）』が2014年2月に復活。

2009年、2010年シリーズに引き続き、チーム室屋も全戦参戦が決定！

今回、2010年の休止から3年という年月をかけて安全性を見直し再構成されたこのシリーズは、前回の世界チャンピオンを含むトップ12人のパイロットで復活を果たします。

全パイロットに適用される標準エンジンやプロペラを含む様々な部分に技術的改良が加えられ、また、パイロンの材質は飛行機の翼に接触して損傷した場合簡単に破裂するように軽量なナイロン製に変更されました。

さらにパイロットが地上から20〜25mを通過できるようパイロンの高さが引き上げられています。

規定速度の遵守をはじめ、ルールも強化されました。

また、安全対策の一環であり、新しいレッドブル・エアレースのハイライトの一つとも言える『チャレンジャーズ・カップ』が2014年から導入される予定です。

◆レース・カレンダー

1. アブダビ（アラブ首長国連邦）　 2月28日/3月1日

2. ロヴィニ（クロアチア共和国）　　4月12/13日

3. プトラジャヤ（マレーシア）　　　  5月17/18日

4. グディニャ（ポーランド）          7月26/27日

5. アスコット（イギリス）             8月16/17日　

6. ダラス・フォートワース（米国）   9月6/7日

7. ラスべガス（米国）              10月11/12日

8. 中国                             11月1/2日

◆レッドブル・エアレース・ワールドチャンピオンシップ

レッドブル・エアレース・ワールドチャンピオンシップでは、世界最高のレースパイロットたちが、スピードと正確さ、技能をもって純粋なモータースポーツ・レースを競い合います。

最速で、機動性に優れ、最軽量のレース用飛行機を使用し、地上25mの高さに浮かぶ空気で膨らませたパイロンで構成された低空の空中コースを周回します。

3年前のレースと比べ、ルールや安全面で改良が加えられていますが、1点だけは以前のまま。それは、レッドブル・エアレースが空を舞台にした最もスリルに満ちたモータースポーツであることです。

Posted by Team MUROYA Racing/Red Bull Air Race

Thanks for the support.

I would like to express my sincere sympathy to everyone affected by the recent earthquake off northeastern Pacific Ocean coast.


My Staff and myself, living in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, directly encountered the earthquake.
Thank you all of for your messages of concern. My staff and aircraft are all safe for now.

Under the unstable nuclear plant situation, people in Fukushima are still living with tight food and gasoline supplies, and also accepting residents evacuated from the power plant area.
We are fighting with multiple disasters to restart normal life.

In addition, the suffering due to the tsunami being endured by the people affected is probably unimaginable.

So many messages from all over the world are reaching us, and it is encouraging us quite a lot.
For further recover, For now we need global support due to the profound damages.


What I can do for now would be expanding the circle of help as much as possible!

Thanks for the support from around the world.
I would like to express the gratitude and warm feelings of everyone.

The relief money collected through Google Checkout will be donated to a charity set up through the 

Japanese Red Cross to support victims of the earthquake and rebuild the afflicted areas.

Yoshi Muoya

Red Bull Air Race season over

The final race of the 2010 held Red Bull Air Race World Championship was held in Germany at the Euro Speedway, Lausitz. Hannes Arch won with a time of 1:12:30, Paul Bonhomme was second only 0.36 seconds behind. Paul Bonhomme won the 2010 World Championship title over the six race season.

Yoshi Muroya was fourth in training, 9th in the qualifying round today which was postponed yesterday because of rain, The top 12 round resulted in 9-seconds of penalties, including a Pylon hit with a total of, 1:23:76 for 12th place in this round. A total of five points for the six round 2010 World Championship placed him in 12th overall.

Muroya's latest comments (video) is available on the official Muroya website YouTube channel.
And detailed results can be downloaded from the official Red Bull Site

Photos by Taro Imahara / T.I.P.P

Eurospeedway Lausitz training rounds

T1 and T2 where the first time Yoshi has been in the race track for 3 months since Rio. Getting back to speed took a little time but now today in T4, Yoshi ahs put in a good practice time placing Team Muroya 4th in training. Pretty good since he has so much less time in the race track compared to the other pilots. For T4 we went with different power settings to those we have tried in previous races and the engine is really running nicely. That together wth a new fuel servo compared to the last race in Rio, we are at last competitive with the second tier group of pilots. Yoshi thinks there is still room for improvement in the lines through the course. Here is hoping for some really good Qualifying rounds tomorrow!

Pictures Taro Imahara / TIPP

Flying again

Back in the air after repairing the tail plane and making a new canopy at the Xtremeair factory in Germany.
Soon the last Red Bull Air Race for this season. After that it won't be until 2012 that the next edition of RBAR will be seen.
So, Team Muroya is looking forward to a smooth and trouble free race to finish the 2010 season on a high note!

pics by Taro Imahara / T.I.P.P

Plane during final preparations at Xtremeair GMBH (nearest the door)

Flying again at last

Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010 New York Report

An unfortunate run of bad luck has forced Team Muroya to drop out of the New York race. After an earlier mishap in Windsor that saw Team Muroya having to hurriedly prepare another aircraft to compete in, pilot Yoshi Muroya chose to stay in Windsor with the new plane to get as much practice in as possible prior to flying the plane to New Jersey for the New York round.

Bad weather then forced a difficult ferry flight in marginal weather requiring him to turn back twice. Muroya suffered the misfortune of clipping the propeller while landing at the Race Airport in New Jersey.

Without enough time to complete repairs prior to the New York race, Muroya took the decision to retire from the round, regroup and assess the problems of the last two weeks - and work towards a strong comeback in the European rounds of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010.

Team Muroya expressed its apologies to supporters and fans for the disappointment and inconvenience caused in the Windsor and New York rounds.

 The team looks forward to their continued support going in to the European stage of the World Championship.

 Posted by Team MUROYA Racing

Windsor report and results

Windsor, June 4, 2010

Regrettably and with much disappointment, Team Muroya has been forced to withdraw from the Windsor round of the Red Bull Air Race Championship 2010.

During a practice session overhead Windsor Airport, a problem developed with the cockpit canopy which led to irreparable damage to it. Unfortunately the canopy is a custom item and a replacement is not readily available.
The biggest disappointment for the team is that the plane had been worked on for 2 weeks prior to arriving in Windsor to improve the engine and overall performance. These changes had shown to be effective during practice and the plane was performing well.

It will take approximately three weeks to reproduce a new canopy so a decision was taken to accept Team Arch’s offer to use their race plane from last year for the Windsor and New York rounds. However this aircraft was located in Oklahoma at the Zivko Edge factory and needed to be assembled including mounting the engine and various other components.

Team Muroya made a huge effort to get to the Zivko factory and prepare the plane in the short time available. Pilot Yoshi Muroya, Technician Takashi Nishimura and TC Rob Fry worked long hours for 2 days with a deadline of 3pm local time in order that Yoshi could ferry to Windsor before sunset on June 3rd. Unfortunately, although the plane was assembled and ready to go a problem was discovered with the electrical system and the engine could not be started as the time limit went by.

You can see Yoshi's Interview just after the retirement for the Windsor round here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUwEIp5BMTk

Posted by Team coordinator Robert Fry