Britain’s Nigel Lamb won the 2014 Red Bull Air Race World Championship this month with a dramatic victory under pressure at the season finale in Spielberg, Austria. Lamb’s second place finish after secured him the championship after Austria’s Hannes Arch ended up a disappointing fourth place in a nail-biting final in front of a sell-out crowd of 35,000 spectators.

France’s Nicolas Ivanoff won the race in the Austrian Alps for his second victory this season, but the nine points that Lamb won were enough to stave off a powerful challenge from local hero, Arch, and keep the British pilot in first place with a grand total of 62 points from the eight-race world championship. Arch, who could have won the World Championship with a victory in the final, ended up nine points behind Lamb and second overall for the third straight time in the world’s fastest motorsport series after being the runner-up to Paul Bonhomme of Britain in 2009 and 2010.