Britain’s Paul Bonhomme from Team Matador jumped into the lead of the Red Bull Air Race World Series championship on Saturday with an amazing victory in the penultimate race of the season in front of a enthusiastic crowd of 50,000 in San Diego, pushing the American Mike Mangold from Team Cobra back to second in the standings after the local hero struggled and got knocked out in the quarter finals.Bonhomme, who had led the championship most of the season before Mangold passed ahead of him last month in Budapest, celebrated his 43rd birthday in great city of San Diego with a thrilling victory in the final against Kirby Chambliss collecting 6 points and move to the top score with 45 points.
Bonhomme made 1:23.80, and Kirby Chambliss from USA/Team Red Bull made 1.11 seconds more, while Nigel Lamb the British pilot that born in Zimbabwe former Rhodesia was third. Mangold, who had also struggled in Friday’s qualifying and hit a pylon, got two points and now has 43 points with one race left in Perth on November 4.
A series of heavy showers in the hours before the race and powerful winds off the Pacific Ocean all day made the difficult course over the bay even more treacherous.
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