The 2018 Red Bull Air Race World Championship was the thirteenth Red Bull Air Race World Championship series.
Aircraft and pilots Master Class Pilot Aircraft Rounds 5 Cristian Bolton Zivko Edge 540 V2 All 11 Mikaël Brageot MX Aircraft MXS All 10 Kirby Chambliss Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 21 Matthias Dolderer Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 99 Michael Goulian Zivko Edge 540 V2 All 95 Matt Hall Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 27 Nicolas Ivanoff Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 18 Petr Kopfstein Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 12 François Le Vot Zivko Edge 540 V2 All 84 Pete McLeod Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 31 Yoshihide Muroya Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 24 Ben Murphy Zivko Edge 540 V2 All 8 Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 V3 All 26 Juan Velarde Zivko Edge 540 V2 All
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 Rounds 33 Mélanie Astles 2–4, 6 62 Florian Bergér 1, 3, 7–8 7 Kenny Chiang 3–8 48 Kevin Coleman 1, 4–5, 7–8 32 Dario Costa 1–2, 4, 6–7 6 Luke Czepiela 1, 3–4, 6, 8 77 Patrick Davidson 1–2, 4–5, 7 78 Daniel Genevey 1–3, 5, 7 17 Daniel Ryfa 1–2, 5–6, 8 15 Baptiste Vignes 2–3, 5–8 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.
Round Country Location Date Fastest Qualifying Winning Pilot Winning Aircraft Winning Challenger 1 Abu Dhabi 2–3 February Matthias Dolderer Michael Goulian Zivko Edge 540 V2 Florian Bergér 2 Cannes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 21–22 April Michael Goulian Matt Hall Zivko Edge 540 V3 Daniel Ryfa 3 Makuhari, Chiba 26–27 May Michael Goulian Matt Hall Zivko Edge 540 V3 Not held 4 Budapest, Central Hungary 23–24 June Martin Šonka Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 V3 Luke Czepiela 5 Kazan, Tatarstan 25–26 August Matthias Dolderer Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 V3 Kevin Coleman 6 Wiener Neustadt, Austria 15–16 September Yoshihide Muroya Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 V3 R1: Kenny ChiangR2: Kenny Chiang 7 Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indiana 6–7 October Martin Šonka Michael Goulian Zivko Edge 540 V2 Florian Bergér 8 Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth 17–18 November Matthias Dolderer Martin Šonka Zivko Edge 540 V3 Luke Czepiela
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 CAN CHI BUD KAZ WIN IND FTW Points 1 Martin Šonka 4 8 3 1 1 1 10 1 80 2 Matt Hall 5 1 1 3 7 3 6 2 75 3 Michael Goulian 1 3 2 4 2 12 1 8 73 4 Mikaël Brageot 8 5 5 2 12 4 9 6 41 5 Yoshihide Muroya 2 4 14 11 8 2 12 5 40 6 Kirby Chambliss 3 12 13 10 3 8 8 3 34 7 Ben Murphy 6 10 11 8 5 13 4 4 29 8 Pete McLeod 14 7 4 12 11 7 2 11 27 9 Juan Velarde 11 6 7 13 4 11 7 7 24 10 Nicolas Ivanoff 10 14 12 7 10 6 3 9 22 11 François Le Vot 7 11 6 5 6 10 14 10 22 12 Matthias Dolderer 13 2 8 DNS 13 9 11 13 17 13 Petr Kopfstein 9 9 9 9 9 5 13 12 16 14 Cristian Bolton 12 13 10 6 14 14 5 14 12 Pilot ABU CAN CHI BUD KAZ WIN IND FTW 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 CAN BUD KAZ WIN IND FTW Points 1 Luke Czepiela 2 1 6 2 1 36 2 Florian Bergér 1 2 1 2 36 3 Kevin Coleman 3 1 9 2 3 30 4 Baptiste Vignes 2 5 3 4 4 2 24 5 Patrick Davidson 6 5 2 4 3 20 6 Kenny Chiang 6 3 1 7 6 16 7 Daniel Ryfa 5 1 8 5 14 8 Dario Costa 4 3 5 7 5 14 9 Mélanie Astles 4 4 4 5 14 10 Daniel Genevey 7 6 3 6 6 6 Pilot ABU CAN BUD KAZ WIN IND FTW Points
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