Red Bull Air Race World Championship

Over the weekend, I attended the Red Bull Air Race World Championship, which was in Perth over the Swan River. I've seen car racing, horse racing, bike racing, but never in my life have I seen planes racing. This is a high-speed, low-altitude aerial motorsport event that attracted thousands of people along the shore of the Swan River. The best pilots from around the world competed against each other in this race based on speed, precision and skill. There were two Americans and one Australian in the race!



They zipped through a course above the water and had to go through, over, and around big air filled pylons. These planes are the fastest, most agile and lightweight racing planes in the world. They reached speeds of 370km per hour. They were so hard to take pictures of but I managed to catch a couple good shots!



Perth is the city in the picture above. Also, the planes went really high in the air when they had to do sharp turns in order to pick up more speed. The planes would dive straight down, almost hitting the water!



Hannes Arch of Austria won the Red Bull Air Race with Matt Hall of Australia getting a career-best second place in front of an enormous crowd of 140,000 people. Go Australia!!!!!!