Holy Sh#t!
I just did a web search for Red bull air racing and watched some of the videos. You are right, these flyer are unbelievable. When I first saw an ad for the races was several years ago and they were fling down a hilly course. After watching the Budapest race I see they too race on flat courses, water for that mater, that stuff is a lot more unforgiving than sand, just ask Steve Hinton who ogred in at over 450 mph (on ABC`s Americian sportsman for that matter) flying the highly modified P-51 Red baron I belive testing to set another speed record

and survived even though the plane completely disintegrated, I mean completely. I remember seeing the dash board and one of his running shoes lying on the sand. With water it is very hard and when it stops being non-compressible it get real sticky. I am surprised those planes can turn like that caring those big brass balls ;D
Jim, could you send me the adress for the site that you watch the races on. Cheers
I`m with stupid---> Speed Monkey