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Britain's Nigel Lamb won the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship in a dramatic season finale in Spielberg, Austria on Sunday.
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With the title race wide open, 35,000 spectators gathered at the Red Bull Ring in Austria for the final chapter of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship.
2008 champion Hannes Arch had crushed the competition in Saturday's qualifying runs and simply needed to maintain his momentum and fly faster and more accurately than Britain's Nigel Lamb through the tricky series of pylons known as "Air Gates".
But Arch struggled early on and was forced to take risks on his second lap in an all-or-nothing bid to win the title.
This proved costly and he was hit with a two-second penalty for flying through one of the Air Gates with his wings not precisely level.
The penalty dropped him down to fourth, shattering his hopes of another title.
Lamb needed to finish second to clinch the championship and in a heart-stopping run he managed just that.
It was a remarkable victory for the 58-year-old who came from far behind in the eight-race world championship.
SOUNDBITE: Nigel Lamb, 2014 Red Bull Air Race world champion
"I dreamed of this a lot but I didn't get my aspirations too high because I knew I just had to be really solid, try to be really consistent and make few mistakes. In today's rollercoaster I felt sure at the end of my final run, I thought that I was fourth and I had lost the world championship, so to win in the end is just amazing."
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Britain's Lamb clinches Red Bull Air Race World Championship title
Monday, October 27 2014Category:Others