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See you next year! Good morning Barcelona! The first training session is about to start in 10 minutes. The weather conditions are perfect: blue sky and low wind speeds.
@BIX: A pilot can win 13 points max: 1 pt for best time in Qualifying and 12 pts on Race Day for first place. Matt Hall - currently in 3rd place - is 18 points behind Hannes Arch. That means Hannes Arch and Paul Bonhomme will definitely be 1st and 2nd. Now, the question is who'll be first?
Picture: Matt Hall from Australia. Hall is in 2nd place at the moment, 1:25.15. Kirby Chambliss just posted the fastest time, 1:24.79. 3rd Ivanoff 1:25.39, 4th Arch 1:26.48, 5th Bonhomme 1:27.16, 6th Mangold 1:31.97.
So smoke on Peter! In 10 minutes we'll see how it works again in Barcelona!
Michael Goulian seems to like the Barcelona track, he's in first place at the moment, 1:24.40.
Nigel Lamb back from 1st training comments "Typically, the track looks impossible before you fly it but after all the mental preparation we do before 1st training it was an easy track to fly... but as always who can find the fastest line? Superb conditions for racing.... so far so good"
@BIX The calendar 2010 as well as the complete pilot lineup next year will be announced soon.
So here are the results of Training 1, Red Bull Air Race Barcelona, 1 October.
Training 2 is scheduled at 2pm CET (2 hours). Time for a quick lunch!
Welcome back to Barcelona for training 2. Some p-r-e-t-t-y interesting results there in training 1 this morning. Okay, okay -- the pilots like to say they don't matter, they're just getting a feel for the track and working on different things. But whoa! Bonhomme in 9th? What's going on. The man with the 4 point lead in the championship going into the season finale here this weekend is going to have to show us a bit more this afternoon....otherwise the tongues will start wagging.
Arch, who is 4 points behind Bonhomme and breathing down his neck trying to get a 2nd straight championship, wasn't much better -- in 7th. But Arch seems to have least have the speed -- his time was marred by 4 seconds in penalty. This will be an interesting training session. Bonhomme kicks it off in n2 minutes
@Dustin: yes, it starts at 8.20am your time (Texas - Houston, USA)
That was an unusual run through the track by Bonhomme. He didn't really seem on the course half the time and has pulled out. But he's still got 3 minutes training time. He'll start again.
Bonhomme gets one good run in there in his 5-minute training session, a 1:22.62. That's nearly 2 seconds faster than American Michael Goulian's morning time of 1:24.40 that topped the time sheets before the lunch break.
Arch is faster but gets hit with 4 seconds in penalties again. His net time is 1:25.55. But he's got time left for another run through the track
Paul Bonhomme during his training run
Arch nails that run, a 1:20.55 with no penalties. He's 2.o7 ahead of Bonhomme atop the time sheets in training 2. This is getting serious, folks. It's shaping up into a fantastic battle. And it's only Thursday afternoon!
Matthias placed 2nd in his first training session. In the first run he hit a pylon. That's how it looks like on the plane afterwards :-)
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