Nigel Lamb
Nigel Lamb | |
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Lamb in 2007 | |
Born | (1956-08-17) 17 August 1956 (age 67) Eastern Highlands, Southern Rhodesia |
Nationality | British |
Website | nigellamb |
Nigel Lamb (born 17 August 1956) is an English aerobatics pilot and the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Champion.
Early life
Lamb was born in the Eastern Highlands of Southern Rhodesia and was inspired to fly by his father, a Royal Air Force fighter pilot iduringWorld War II. Lamb first applied to join the Rhodesian Air Force at 11[citation needed], and persisted until he was finally accepted at 18, in 1975, having finished his schooling at Umtali Boy's High School.
Career
After gaining his wings he did an Operational Conversion on de Havilland Vampire jets before becoming a helicopter pilot, flying the Alouette II and Alouette III and Augusta Bell UH1-H in the Rhodesian Bush War. In 1980, following the election of Robert Mugabe, Lamb, by then an instructor, left the Air Force and moved to England to join the Marlboro Aerobatic team.[1] He was a professional display pilot for 36 years, flew 1,900 public displays in over 30 countries worldwide including leading the first civilian aerobatics display team to fly in China in 1996. Nigel was the British Unlimited Aerobatic Champion 8 times consecutively and spent eight years putting his skills to the test in the highly challenging Red Bull Air Race World Championship, winning the 2014 world championship title.
He also featured in some major movie productions as an aerial display pilot flying a variety of historical aircraft including a Spitfire, P-51 Mustang and a P-40 Kittyhawk.
Personal life
Nigel Lamb is married to successful aerobatic pilot Hilary, and together they have three sons, Max, Daniel and Ben. He enjoys skiing, scuba diving and squash.
2005–2010
Nigel Lamb at the Red Bull Air Race World Championship | |||||||||||||||
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Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Points | Wins | Rank |
2005 | DNP | DNP | DNP | DNP | 9th | 8th | 7th | 0 | 0 | 8th | |||||
2006 | 9th | 6th | 8th | CAN | 6th | DQ | 6th | 8th | 8th | 3 | 0 | 9th | |||
2007 | 11th | 7th | 8th | 8th | CAN | 10th | 7th | 6th | 7th | 3rd | CAN | 8th | 5 | 0 | 9th |
2008 | 8th | 6th | 12th | CAN | 8th | 5th | 6th | 5th | CAN | 2nd | 30 | 0 | 7th | ||
2009 | 4th | 6th | 8th | 9th | 11th | 2nd | 32 | 0 | 6th | ||||||
2010 | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 4th | 2nd | 4th | CAN | CAN | 55 | 0 | 3rd | ||||
Series not held between 2011 and 2013 |
2014-2016
Year | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Points | Wins | Rank |
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2014 | 5th | 8th | 1st | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 2nd | 62 | 1 | 1st |
2015 | 5th | 5th | 5th | 8th | 5th | 13th | 6th | 10th | 20 | 0 | 7th |
2016 | 11th | 3rd | 4th | 6th | 6th | 10th | 2nd | CAN | 37.75 | 0 | 4th |
See also
References
Footnotes
- ^ Dunnell Aeroplane June 2016, pp. 92–94.
Sources
- Dunnell, Paul (June 2017). "Aeroplane meets Nigel Lamb". Aeroplane. Vol. 45, no. 6. pp. 90–97. ISSN 0143-7240.
External links
- Nigel Lamb at IMDb
Sporting positions | ||
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Preceded by Paul Bonhomme (2010) | Red Bull Air Race World Series Champion 2014 | Succeeded by Paul Bonhomme (2015) |
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(Master)
- Cristian Bolton
- Mikaël Brageot
- Kirby Chambliss
- Matthias Dolderer
- Michael Goulian
- Matt Hall
- Nicolas Ivanoff
- Petr Kopfstein
- François Le Vot
- Pete McLeod
- Yoshihide Muroya
- Ben Murphy
- Martin Šonka
- Juan Velarde
(Challenger)
- Mélanie Astles
- Florian Bergér
- Kenny Chiang
- Kevin Coleman
- Dario Costa
- Luke Czepiela
- Patrick Davidson
- Daniel Genevey
- Daniel Ryfa
- Baptiste Vignes
- Hannes Arch
- Péter Besenyei
- Paul Bonhomme
- Glen Dell
- Steve Jones
- Jurgis Kairys
- Adilson Kindlemann
- Nigel Lamb
- Alejandro Maclean
- Mike Mangold
- David Martin
- Peter Podlunšek
- Sergey Rakhmanin
- Klaus Schrodt
- Frank Versteegh