Perth Report and Result

The final race for Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010 was held in Perth Australia today, Hannes Arch has won the Perth round of the championship followed by local hero Matt Hall just 0.48 seconds behind him.

Yoshihide Muroya progressed through the Wild Card session today, taking 1st place to move into the Top 12.
His Top 12 round time of 1.32.43 including a marginal 2 seconds penalty put him in 9th position, not quite good enough to move on to the next round.

But, he was able to fly his plane close to its best time, and looking on the positive side said, “I have found a big key point concerning flying style from this race and will review it and prepare for the next round in Rio”.

Photo by Taro Imahara/TIP
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Race Day Schedule

Sunday 18 April – Race Day


(Japan Local time)
12:45～　Wild card
13:40～　Top 12
14:20～　Super 8
14:55～　Final 4

Live streaming can be viewed via Channel 6 at Team MUROYA official website

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Perth qualification report and results

Qualification round for 2010 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was held in Perth, Australia today.

Muroya hit a pylon on the first qualification round and finished with a total 9sec penalty. He decided to use Q2 as preparation for tomorrows racing and made a stable flight in the second round and with no penalty. Unfortunately the time put him in 13th and therefore takes a place in the Wild Card round for tomorrow's racing.

You can watch MUROYA's  interview after qualifying flight here (in Japanese)

The Wild Card session will start from 18th April 12:45 Japan time and can be viewed via Channel 6 at Team MUROYA official website

For further information about today’s results… http://85.25.132.161/Index.htm

In addition,  Pit Lane Walk with a special guest  has been conducted.

American Actor Josh Lucas has visted to our hanger.

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Qualifying Day Schedule

Saturday 17 April – Qualifying Day
(Local Time/Perth)
12:30 First Qualifying round
13:30 Second Qualifying round

For more information about Perth Race, please visit ...
http://www.redbullairrace.com/
Red Bull Air Race Live Blog
Race Live Result

Photo by Taro Imahara/TIPP

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Perth Race Runway is open!

Despite some inclement weather in the area, the Race Runway was officially opened at Perth today. You definitely know you are in Australia when there is a Koala and a Kangaroo at a ceremony such as this!

The pilots were all presented wth a Boomerang as a momento of the Perth race and many were soon out on the runway trying to make them fly and come back! Perhaps due to the quality of the gift, many were quite successful!

Perth arrival

April 9th is the date all Technicians and Team Coordinators were to be in Perth. Work started on re-assembling the aircraft and today, April 10th now at 5pm, most planes are nearly complete.
The picture shows the scene in the Fighter Combat International hanger at Jandakot Airport, Perth. The aircraft are to be all assembled and test flown here through Tuesday, April 13th. On Wednesday all will then fly in to the Race Airport situated on a park in downtown Perth adjacent to the Race Course.

Abu Dhabi 10th place

WOW what an exciting day at the Red Bull Air races!
4 Disqualifications for dangerous flying for Rakmanin, Arch, Dolderer and Chambliss!
3 Did not starts for MaClean, Hall and Goulian!

The DNS for Hall and Goulian were on the start grid. They could not get their engines started to go for the next flight.

Paul Bonhomme won with a very good final time considering the heat of 41 deg C in the race track. The fact that Besenyei took out 3rd place with a time 7 seconds slower showed how consistency in the final rounds is so important.

Team Muroya wants to take this lesson to Perth. Our plane seems closer to beingcompetitive. Even so we still need to improve the plane to reach the final 4.

The start to the season has shown the effects of the new rules about weight limits for planes and pilots.
The planes are held in Parc Ferme from 2 hours before the racing starts and can be spot checked for weight at any time. Team Maclean were unlucky to be found 3kg light in a spot check and were therefore disqualified from the qualification rounds. Such small discrepancys can occurr just by the difference in temperature of the fuel when it was put in the plane and when the plane is weighed possibly the next day. Teams have to be very careful that the fuel loads and any compensation weights are correct prior to the 2 hour Parc Ferme time. The pilots are weighed together with their compensation weights immediately after landing and must exceed the minimum Pilot weight of 82kg or else the will be disqualified.

For Team Muroya the 10th place and 2 points is not too bad a start. We know where our improvements can be made an look forward to the next round in Perth.
photos by Taro Imahara/TIPP