On the 22nd of October 2010 the Red Bull© Air Race World Championship© announced that it would be taking a one year break and wouldn't do the 2011 season. What does this mean for the championship? Well Red Bull© says that this will give them an opportunity to make technological advancements in the series and make it more popular and also more safe for everyone involved.
What do I think this all means? I believe that they cancelled the 2011 season because there might have been a problem with one of the host cities and couldn't do the race there for some reason. Another reason why they had to do this maybe because one of their sponsors were threatening to pull out and so Red Bull© had no opinion but to cancel the 2011 season to work out sponsorship problems. If I do find out any more information about this though I will make another posting on my blog.
One thing that I do hope that comes out of having a year off is that they will get more race cities and make the race calendar more packed. Right now there are only eight races a year which means that there is only about one race ever 2 months or so. Like for example if I wanted to go to a race in Canada and I am located in Calgary, Alberta then I have to go across Canada for the race which I think is a little much just to go and watch an air race.
Thank You Until Next Time
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