'Red Bull Air Race', Budapest, 20 August 2007

"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."


Source: redbullairrace.com