SPIELBERG (Austria) – Petr Kopfstein of the Czech Republic won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship’s Challenger Cup competition on Saturday with an exciting victory in a winner-take-all season final showdown in Spielberg, Austria with Malaysia’s Halim Othman taking second place and France’s Mikael Brageot finishing third. On a sunny autumn afternoon in the Austrian Alps, Kopfstein took top honors in the new competition that was introduced at the start of the 2014 season as an “incubator” to give the promising pilots experience with high-speed, low-altitude flying under race conditions and to help develop their flying skills. Read more →