Highlights from the 2014 Red Bull air race world championship in Abu Dhabi.

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Highlights from the 2014 Red Bull air race world championship on the corniche in Abu Dhabi. The 2014 Red Bull air race world championship kicks off in Abu Dhabi. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00It's marvellous to be back in Abu Dhabi. I think Abu Dhabi always used to be the first

00:16race of the season so everybody enjoyed it because they got to catch up on what the hot

00:21news was and what had happened over the off-season and also I think most of us have come from

00:25North American winters and European winters which the weather's been pretty grim so we're

00:30all really pleased to be back here. It's an uplifting experience to see this nice weather,

00:34the beautiful Corniche and to be racing again so I think we're all very pleased to be back here.

00:55The race aeroplanes are pretty much based on absolutely top-level competition and air show

01:07aerobatic aeroplanes. They're pretty much Edge 540s from America, MXS's from America and the

01:15Corvus originally from Hungary. They're all sort of similar, single seat, carbon fibre, very light,

01:24strong, very high power to weight ratio. So that's how they start as aerobatic aeroplanes

01:29but then they're optimised for racing so people cut them down, cut down the aerodynamic drag and

01:34put some aerodynamic improvements on them to make sure they're as fast as they can possibly be.

01:53I think the first two guys were separated by two one hundredths of a second so really tight.

02:05They're all flying the same identical aeroplanes which levels the playing field again and we're

02:11hoping to use them as sort of ambassadors really around the world. We've got lots of

02:15different nationalities and of the ten challengers, six will fly at any race so

02:21there'll be a different six, some different pilots at the next round and the idea is that

02:26when we get to the penultimate race, the last but one race, the fastest of the series so far

02:32this year will go forward to the final in China and the winner of that final will be handed the

02:37first Challengers Cup.

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