Chief Technical Officer of Infinity Red Bull Racing Team Adrian Newey, OBE of Great Britain talks with Pete McLeod of Canada prior to the finals of the fifth stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship in Ascot, Great Britain on August 17, 2014. (Photo-Jörg Mitter/Red Bull Content Pool)

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas – The Red Bull Air Race World Championship moves to the United States with a riveting stop set for the Texas Motor Speedway in Dallas-Fort Worth on September 6-7. Austria's Hannes Arch will try to hold onto his crumbling lead ahead of hard-charging Paul Bonhomme and Nigel Lamb after the two Brits flew brilliantly at home in the last race to take first and second places there. The sixth round of the eight-stop world championship will be held at the famous motor circuit in Dallas/Fort Worth, one of the largest sports stadiums in the United States.

The race at 'The Great American Speedway', as it is sometimes called, will be an eagerly awaited homecoming for Americans Kirby Chambliss, the 2006 World Champion and native Texan born in Corpus Christi, as well as Michael Goulian from Massachusetts, who won the Budapest race in 2009. Both have struggled this year and will be hoping for a boost from the Texan crowd. It will be the first U.S. race since the stop in New York in 2010 that Bonhomme won and Chambliss took third place. The high-speed, low-altitude race through Air Gate pylons set up inside and around the 1.5-mile quad-oval track will also be an historic occasion because it will be the first time an Air Race of any kind will be held at a NASCAR track and the first time inside a stadium in the United States. The pilots and their planes will also take off and land from the infield of the track, a first in the United States, with the crowd watching all the action from the grandstands.

Arch, the 2008 champion won two of the first four races this season, faltered at the last race in Ascot, England with a dismal eighth place for 43 points overall while reigning champion Bonhomme bounced back from two subpar performances to win the home race with style and collect 12 points for 41 points in total to cut Arch's lead at the top to just 2 points.

The Red Bull Air Race World Championship features 12 of the world's best race pilots in a motor sport competition that combines speed, precision and skill as pilots navigate a low-level aerial track made up of air-filled pylons 25 meters high at speeds of up to 370 km/h while enduring forces of up to 10G

Newey Drops In For Visit To Red Bull Air Race Airport

Formula One's best-known engineer Adrian Newey paid a visit to the Red Bull Air Race Airport on Sunday ahead of the race in Ascot and spent time talking to some of the pilots about their airplanes and the intracacies of the world's fastest motorsport series. The chief technical officer of Red Bull's Formula One team and the mastermind behind their cars that won the last four straight world championships, Newey was clearly eager to learn more about the Red Bull Air Race and the sport's technical developments.

"He was really interested in learning about the challenges we deal with technically and with the sport's developments," said Canada's Pete McLeod, who spent nearly a half an hour showing Newey his plane and answering a steady stream of questions. "He was very interested in the rules and constraints we face."

McLeod, who was the fastest in Qualifying on Saturday, said he enjoyed the in-depth conversation with Newey, who oversaw the design of the Red Bull F1 cars that won the last four titles and enjoyed title-winning success as an engineer for McLaren and Williams before joining Red Bull in 2006. Newey might have stayed longer but the Ascot race was about to start.

"He was a very cool guy to meet and we had a really good conversation. Like most things in aviation, it seems that aircraft are years and years behind the developoments in car racing. There are nevertheless interesting similiaries."

McLeod said that Newey was also especially curious about how the strong, gusty winds in Ascot on Sunday would affect the Red Bull Air Race.

"I was talking to him about the wind here today and how it would affect things and he said it was the same with F1 cars and that the winds can affect them a lot," said McLeod.

"I think it's great that he came out to see the race today," said McLeod. "It's a great testament to where we are now as a sport."