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2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship

championship season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 24, 2024
Entity authorityQ45039940 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the thirteenth Red Bull Air Race World Championship series.

Aircraft and pilots

Master Class

Pilot changes

Peter Podlunšek retired the master class pilot of Red Bull Air Race following the final round of the 2017 season.

2017 Challenger Class pilot of Red Bull Air Race Ben Murphy made his debut in the Master Class.

Challenger Class

All Challenger Cup Pilots used a Zivko Edge 540 V2.

Pilot changes

Italy's Dario Costa and South Africa's Patrick Davidson will make their debuts in the Challenger Class.

Race calendar and results

The eight-event calendar for the 2018 season was announced on 8 November 2017. Chiba of rounds 3 were announced on 6 March 2018. On 24 July 2018, the season finale was announced to be held at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship” as championship season. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Bull, Race and World can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as championship season. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.