Mangold wins in Budapest
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American Mike Mangold (Team Cobra) has won the Red Bull Air Race World Series event in Budapest by beating Kirby Chambliss (USA/Team Red Bull) in a heart-stopping battle over the Danube River in front of half a million spectators to take over the championship lead from Britain’s Paul Bonhomme (Team Matador) with his third victory of the 10-race season.
Mangold, the 2005 Red Bull Air Race champion, dazzled the huge Hungary national holiday crowd watching from the banks of the majestic river with a clean run through the 15-gate course that started and finished with a spectacular fly-by underneath Budapest’s landmark Chain bridge. He posted a winning time of 1:12.85. Paul Bonhomme (GBR/Team Matador) took third.
“We’ve won two races in a row but there’s three races left, so we’ve got a good trend going. We did a whole new motor for this race. It’s almost running perfect. There is one minor issue that we’re going to work on before Porto. The machine is doing real well. It’s very easy for me. I just have to fly it correctly and it’s going to win for me,” Mangold said.
Mangold now leads the series, which has three more stops, with 36 points, ahead of the Bonhomme, the surprise package of the 2007 season, who now slips back to second after leading most of the season. He has 35 points. After a slow start this season, Mangold has won three of the last four races: Istanbul, London and Budapest.
The 13 Red Bull Air Race pilots hit speeds of up to 400 kph and forces of up to 10G in the elimination rounds flown on the compact course in front of the Hungarian parliament building. Budapest marked the start of the decisive phase of the Red Bull Air Race World Series. The final three stops of the series are in Porto, San Diego and Perth.
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