35°38′23″N 140°01′55″E / 35.63972°N 140.03194°E / 35.63972; 140.03194

The 2017 Red Bull Air Race of Chiba was the third round of the 2017 season, the eleventh season of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship. The event was held in Chiba, Japan.

On January 19, 2017, 8 cities hosting the 2017 season were announced, and following the 2015 season and the 2016 season, it was decided to hold for the third consecutive and the third time in Japan and Chiba prefecture.

Following Abu Dhabi of the first game and San Diego of the second game, Chiba of the third game is also a maritime race.

Glay will serve as the ambassador of this event. Also, Glay also wrote the theme song "XYZ".

• 2017
  • January 19 – the schedule is announced.
  • June 3 – First day of the convention. Qualifying day.

  Opening 10: 00, Competition start 13:00, Competition end 16: 00

  • June 4 – Day 2 of the tournament. Final day.

  Opening 10: 00, Competition start 13:00, Competition end 16: 00

It will be carried out even in case of rain, but it will be canceled in the case of stormy weather. Also, we will not carry forward the tournament.

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	84	Pete McLeod	54.609
2	21	Matthias Dolderer	54.656
3	8	Martin Sonka	54.928
4	31	Yoshihide Muroya	54.933
5	95	Matt Hall	55.010
6	10	Kirby Chambliss	55.226
7	99	Michael Goulian	55.539
8	37	Peter Podlunsek	55.605
9	26	Juan Velarde	55.632
10	27	Nicolas Ivanoff	55.791
11	18	Petr Kopfstein	55.954
12	11	Mikael Brageot	56.169
13	5	Cristian Bolton	56.365
14	12	Francois Le Vot	57.116

Heat Rank1 Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two Rank2 1 13 Nicolas Ivanoff 58.057 55.459 Matt Hall 4 2 6 Petr Kopfstein 55.597 55.590 Yoshihide Muroya 5 3 10 Juan Velarde 57.012 55.234 Kirby Chambliss 3 4 9 Mikael Brageot 56.037 54.787 Martin Sonka 1 5 12 Peter Podlunsek 58.008 56.380 Michael Goulian 8 6 14 Cristian Bolton 59.044 55.805 Matthias Dolderer 7 7 11 Francois Le Vot 57.331 55.209 Pete McLeod 2

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out Fastest loser, qualified

• ^1 Pilot received 2 seconds in climbing in the gate
• ^2 Pilot received 2 seconds in incorrect level flying

Heat Rank1 Pilot One Time One Time Two Pilot Two Rank2 8 4 Yoshihide Muroya 56.964 57.295 Matt Hall 6 9 3 Petr Kopfstein 55.732 DNF Kirby Chambliss 8 10 2 Matthias Dolderer 55.333 DNF Pete McLeod 7 11 5 Michael Goulian 55.018 54.900 Martin Sonka 1

Key Qualified for next round Knocked out

• ^1 Pilot received 2 seconds in incorrect level flying
• ^2 Pilot received 2 seconds in climbing in the gate
• ^3 DNF in exceeding maximum g

Pos	No.	Pilot	Run Time	Pen
1	31	Yoshihide Muroya	55.288
2	18	Petr Kopfstein	55.846
3	8	Martin Sonka	56.533	+2sec
4	21	Matthias Dolderer	57.943	+3sec

• ^1 Pilot received 2 in incorrect level flying
• ^2 Pilot received 3 in penalties

Master Class standings Pos Pilot Pts 1 Yoshihide Muroya 30 2 Martin Sonka 30 3 Matthias Dolderer 23 4 Petr Kopfstein 17 5 Pete McLeod 14 6 Michael Goulian 14 7 Juan Velarde 13 8 Peter Podlunsek 12 9 Kirby Chambliss 10 10 Nicolas Ivanoff 10 11 Matt Hall 8 12 Cristian Bolton 4 13 Mikael Brageot 4 14 Francois Le Vot 3

Facility

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  Race Track
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  Race Control
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  Runway
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  Hangar

Sideact

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  JGSDF AH-64D
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  Chiba Fire Rescue Demonstration
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  Breitling DC-3 HB-IRJ
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  Zero N553TT

Airplane

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  Yoshihide Muroya (N31YM)
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  Petr Kopfstein (N513AG)
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  Martin Sonka (N806PB)

• Chiba｜Red Bull Air Race – Official Web Site (in English)

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