Red Bull Air Race 2011 Cancelled.

[chrisb]

PERTH'S popular Red Bull Air Race is no more after organisers announced its worldwide cancellation for 2011.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/western-australia/red-bull-air-race-cancelled-worldwide/story-e6frg13u-1225898295121

[Andrew P]

it reads the all the races around the world are cancelled!!

[Chris Griffiths]

.. and with the final 2 rounds of 2010 also cancelled the future of RBAR does not look all that bright.

[Greg McDonald]

I can't find a reason in any of the articles I've read either.

[chrisb]

Updated...

ORGANISERS of the Red Bull Air Race say the popular event will be restructured but the likelihood of it returning to Perth in 2012 is unknown.

and...

The Perth event's race director Drew Searle said the decision was taken by Red Bull two days ago, to allow for a "headquarters" restructure as well as the implementation of new safety measures.

Mr Searle said Red Bull was looking into "really exciting" safety measures being developed by their motorsports Formula One research and development team and didn't want to roll them out mid-season.

"We have a bunch of projects that are very close to fruition," Mr Searle said.

"What we don't want to do is have race pilots changing their whole aeroplane mid-season because that would be crazy, especially if you had 15 teams doing it at once."

He said the move would protect spectators and the assets of host cities and allow the "adequate amount of time to implement the safety changes".

Although he wouldn't elaborate on the changes, he said they would build on those used to rescue Brazilian pilot Adilson Kindlemann when his plane crashed into the Swan River while on a practice run in April.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/red-bull-air-race-axed-after-safety-concerns-20100729-10wu8.html