The Red Bull Air Race World Championship season is set to continue this weekend with Budapest playing host to two days of competition ©Red Bull Air Race World Championship

The Red Bull Air Race World Championship season is set to continue this weekend with Budapest playing host to two days of competition. 

Tomorrow’s qualifying will be followed by racing on Sunday (June 24).

Hungary's capital is a classic stop on the calendar having first staged an event in 2003, when the season only had two races. 

Planes will speed under the historic Chain Bridge and through the race track on the river Danube.

Czech Republic’s Petr Kopfstein and Martin Sonka started their weekends in the possible fashion today by registering first-place finishes in the master class free practice sessions.

Budapest is a classic stop on the calendar ©Red Bull Air Race World Championship
Budapest is a classic stop on the calendar ©Red Bull Air Race World Championship

Free practice one saw Kopfstein post the quickest time of the day, 58.088sec.

Sonka topped the standings in free practice two with a time of 58.600.

Nearest to Kopfstein in the early session was France’s Mika Brageot, who was 0.174 seconds behind.

The United States’ Michael Goulian, the current joint Championship leader with Australia’s Matt Hall, was 0.232 seconds back in third.,

Goulian was second in free practice two, 0.682 seconds behind Sonka, while Hall was 1.096 seconds off the pace in third.