MATT Hall has taken top spot on the podium in Germany in the sixth round of the Red Bull Air Race Championship.
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The Hunter pilot’s Lausitzring run in 53.642 put him almost a full second ahead of second-placed Matthias Dolderer (54.417) and Canadian Pete McLeod,m who finished third.
Hall remains in the hunt for the championship with two legs of the eight-race season remaining.
He sat in third place overall behind Dolderer and Austrian former world champion Hannes Arch, overtaking Arch with his win and closing to within 16.5 points of Dolderer.
The 30 points on offer in the final two rounds put Dolderer in the box seat for a maiden world title but Hall is refusing to concede until the final flag.
“We are concentrating as a team on being the best we can be. We redefine what ‘the best we can be’ is at every race and it's working for us again,” he said.
“The best way of beating Matthias for the championship is to keep winning races. But I can't control what the other pilots do and I can only focus on what we do well and that's be consistent. We will keep trying to win the title until it is not possible.”
“We have a saying in our team that we ‘try and do the ordinary, extraordinarily well’ and we will keep that plan going.”
The final two Red Bull Air Race World Championship rounds will be held in the US, with the next round above Indianapolis Motor Speedway on October 1-2.
Las Vegas will host the final round from October 15.
Matt Carr
Matt began his Newcastle Herald career as a cadet in 2009. He is a Walkley nominated reporter who has covered councils, police and general news rounds across the Upper Hunter, Port Stephens, Maitland, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Newcastle. Now his focus is on digital storytelling and breaking news.
Matt began his Newcastle Herald career as a cadet in 2009. He is a Walkley nominated reporter who has covered councils, police and general news rounds across the Upper Hunter, Port Stephens, Maitland, Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and Newcastle. Now his focus is on digital storytelling and breaking news.
