The 2017 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the twelfth Red Bull Air Race World Championship series.
Aircraft and pilots Master Class Pilot Aircraft Rounds 5 Cristian Bolton Zivko Edge 540 All 8 Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 All 10 Kirby Chambliss Zivko Edge 540 All 11 Mikaël Brageot MX Aircraft MXS All 12 François Le Vot Zivko Edge 540 All 18 Petr Kopfstein Zivko Edge 540 All 21 Matthias Dolderer Zivko Edge 540 All 26 Juan Velarde Zivko Edge 540 All 27 Nicolas Ivanoff Zivko Edge 540 All 31 Yoshihide Muroya Zivko Edge 540 All 37 Peter Podlunšek Zivko Edge 540 All 84 Pete McLeod Zivko Edge 540 All 95 Matt Hall Zivko Edge 540 All 99 Michael Goulian Zivko Edge 540 All
Pilot changes Former champion Nigel Lamb retired from the sport following the final round of the 2016 season. 2015 Challenger Class champion Mikaël Brageot made his debut in the Master Class.
Challenger Class All Challenger Cup Pilots used an Extra 330LX.
Pilot Rounds 6 Luke Czepiela 1–4, 7–8 7 Kenny Chiang 2–6 15 Baptiste Vignes 1–5 17 Daniel Ryfa 1, 3–5, 7–8 24 Ben Murphy 1, 4–8 33 Mélanie Astles 1, 4–8 48 Kevin Coleman 1–3, 5–6, 8 62 Florian Bergér 1–3, 6–8 78 Daniel Genevey 2–4, 6–7
Race calendar and results On 16 December 2016, it was announced that the first round in the Arabian Gulf, Abu Dhabi will be held on 10-11 February. Other rounds were announced on 19 January 2017, with the final two European rounds announced on 8 March 2017. Due to organisational reasons, the Challenger round in Chiba was later rescheduled to Kazan, making it a double-header round for the class.
Round Country Location Date Fastest Qualifying Winning Pilot Winning Aircraft Winning Challenger Report 1 Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi 11–12 February Martin Šonka Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 Daniel Ryfa report 2 San Diego, California 15–16 April Matthias Dolderer Yoshihide Muroya Zivko Edge 540 Florian Bergér report 3 Makuhari, Chiba 3–4 June Pete McLeod Yoshihide Muroya Zivko Edge 540 rescheduled report 4 Budapest, Central Hungary 1–2 July Pete McLeod Kirby Chambliss Zivko Edge 540 Florian Bergér report 5 Kazan, Tatarstan 22–23 July Pete McLeod Kirby Chambliss Zivko Edge 540 R1: Luke CzepielaR2: Kenny Chiang report 6 River Douro, Porto 2–3 September Pete McLeod Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 Kevin Coleman report 7 Lausitzring, Klettwitz 16–17 September Matt Hall Yoshihide Muroya Zivko Edge 540 Daniel Ryfa report 8 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indiana 14–15 October Matt Hall Yoshihide Muroya Zivko Edge 540 Mélanie Astles report
Championship standings
Master Class Master Class scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11–14th Points 15 12 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Pilot ABU SDG CHI BUD KAZ POR LAU IND Points 1 Yoshihide Muroya 13 1 1 3 13 6 1 1 74 2 Martin Šonka 1 5 3 4 9 1 3 4 70 3 Pete McLeod 3 10 7 2 2 2 5 11 56 4 Kirby Chambliss 11 4 8 1 1 4 6 10 53 5 Petr Kopfstein 12 6 2 5 4 7 8 5 43 6 Matt Hall 10 9 6 8 6 3 2 8 40 7 Matthias Dolderer 4 3 4 12 10 8 12 2 39 8 Juan Velarde 2 11 10 9 5 DNS 4 3 37 9 Michael Goulian 6 8 5 13 3 10 14 7 28 10 Mikaël Brageot 9 13 9 6 12 5 7 6 24 11 Nicolas Ivanoff 5 7 13 7 11 11 9 13 16 12 Peter Podlunšek DSQ 2 12 DNS 14 9 13 14 14 13 Cristian Bolton 7 14 14 11 8 12 11 9 9 14 François Le Vot 8 12 11 10 7 13 10 12 9 Pilot ABU SDG CHI BUD KAZ POR LAU IND PointsBold – Fastest Qualifying Pilot
Challenger Class Challenger Class scoring system Position 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6-8th Points 10 8 6 4 2 0 Pilot ABU SDG BUD KAZ KAZ POR LAU IND Points 1 Florian Bergér 2 1 1 2 2 4 8 38 2 Daniel Ryfa 1 3 2 6 1 6 34 3 Luke Czepiela 6 3 2 1 3 2 34 4 Kevin Coleman 5 2 7 3 1 5 27 5 Mélanie Astles 3 5 4 3 5 1 2 23 6 Ben Murphy 4 3 5 5 4 3 2 19 7 Baptiste Vignes 7 5 4 6 2 14 8 Kenny Chiang 6 5 DSQ 1 6 12 9 Daniel Genevey 4 6 4 4 6 12 Pilot ABU SDG BUD KAZ KAZ POR LAU IND Points
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