| Nigel Lamb back on Attack |
British ace looks forward to first race in San Diego in hot new plane. Nigel Lamb is relishing the return to the scene of his greatest triumph since joining the Red Bull Air Race World Series - San Diego - not only because he got his first podium with third place there last year, but because he will be racing his new MXS for the first time.
The British pilot can hardly wait for this year’s first race in North America where the new MXS will make its debut to the Red Bull Air Race World Series. "I’m really looking forward to San Diego," said Lamb, who finished a disappointing eighth in the season opener in Abu Dhabi with his heavier MX2 plane.
"But the pressure will be on me there as there are huge expectations for the MXS. It was a sweet moment to be on the podium last year after such a long journey from the slow Extra 300 through all the initial problems we had with the MX2 to finally get a good result," he added with typical British understatement – because San Diego last year really was an incredible result for Lamb. And the superb performance that made him the seventh Red Bull Air Race pilot last season to land on the podium came completely out of the blue, totally eclipsing his previous best results.
Lamb’s timing for the best race of his four-year Red Bull Air Race career was impeccable — because not only was his wife on hand to witness the heroics but so was his sponsor Breitling as well as Chris Meyer from MRX Technologies and others involved in the MX project. "The MXS should be able to help me right away in San Diego," said Lamb, who had actually hoped to get into the MXS in racing last season. "It is significantly better than the MX2, but ‘how much better’? We’ll only know once we’re in San Diego."
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