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This was the Red Bull Air Race 2nd stop on the Detroit river last weekend. Last year, Detroit was hosting the race but this year was hosted by Windsor. I highly recommend that you visit their website and look through some of the videos to get a taste of this motorsport. They do an awesome job with marketing, that’s for sure! But it is very nice to see in action.

Basically, it’s a race against the clock throug a very demanding course through air gates. Depending on the color of the gate, some must be passed in level flying, while others must be passed in knife flying. The latter is not evident because the plane has no lift in this position, and the pilots have to fly very low. The top of the gate is only 60 ft in the air! The pilots must endure crazy amounts of G-Force, up to 12.0G, which is the limit they can achieve before being disqualified.

I missed my chance last year, but not this year! I’ll post my pictures in the coming day or 2.

To give you a taste of the windsor race, here few videos from the red bull air race website:

New Final Four Finals:

Windsor Race Highlights:

Official picture from the race:

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