Britain’s Paul Bonhomme will battle Austria’s Hannes Arch and a field of the world’s top pilots when the Red Bull Air Race World Championship moves to its second stop of the 2014 season in Rovinj, Croatia on 12th and 13th April.

ROVINJ (Croatia) – The Red Bull Air Race travels to Europe for the second leg of the 2014 World Championship with a first-ever race in Rovinj, Croatia. Britain’s Paul Bonhomme is holding on to a slim lead over Austria’s Hannes Arch and Canada’s Pete McLeod after the trio fought it out in an exciting battle for points in the season opener in Abu Dhabi Corniche.  The stop in Rovinj on April 12/13 will bring the world’s fastest motorsport series close to the sport’s first-ever race in Zeltweg, Austria (2003) and will provide the Balkan region of aviation enthusiasts an eagerly awaited chance to see the high-speed, low-altitude racing. In one of the closest finals in the sport’s history in Abu Dhabi, Bonhomme stopped the clock in 56.439 seconds to beat Arch (56.776) by just fractions of a second.

Bonhomme, Arch, McLeod and Australia’s Matt Hall were the top four pilots in Abu Dhabi Corniche. Close behind the top four in the first of eight races this year were Britain’s Nigel Lamb (5), Germany’s Matthias Dolderer (6), Martin Sonka of the Czech Republic (7) and France’s Nicolas Ivanoff (8). With new rules, such as all 12 pilots flying with standardized engines, the field has become more competitive than ever and even the four pilots who struggled in the United Arab Emirates –  Japan’s Yoshihide Muroya (9), Hungary’s Peter Besenyei (10), American Kirby Chambliss (11) and compatriot Michael Goulian (12) – all have genuine hopes of reaching the podium in Rovinj, a picturesque port town on the Adriatic Sea.

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