Steve Jones

Red Bull Air Race took a 3-year break, returning in 2014. Jones came back as race director and head of training.

Jones retired from Airrace as a competitor at the end of the 2008 season. He spent the next two seasons as technical commentator for TV and Internet coverage.

Red Bull Air Race World Series results 2007 5th 2006 6th 2005 6th Flying achievements 2005 FAI WGP, Bronze, U.A.E.; Gold, Switzerland 2005 FAI WGP, Gold, Switzerland 2004 FAI WGP, Gold, U.A.E. 2002 FAI WGP, Silver, Czech Republic; Gold, Japan 2001 FAI WGP, Silver, Japan 2000 FAI World Grand Prix, Gold Medal, Japan 1995 British Aerobatics Champion 1995 UK Freestyle Aerobatics Champion FAI WGP Championships – three 1st place medals, one 2nd place medal All FAI WGP results in the formation team category as the Sukhoi Duo/Matadors

Easily confused with Steve Jones, double World Gliding Champion, 2001 & 2014 world champion glider pilot.

Since 1994, Jones has flown competitively and as a display pilot with Paul Bonhomme in their Red Bull Matadors Team. They have taken their show around the world from the UAE to Japan. Jones flies as the wingman. Jones was a competitive Red Bull Air Race pilot from the first UK race which took place in Kemble UK in 2004. In the Red Bull Air Race series of 2007, he won in Porto, Portugal, defeating Mike Mangold.

Jones had his first flying lesson at just five years old, in 1965, in a Cessna, on the knee of a family friend. He became a pilot both commercially and competitively.

Steve Jones (born 5 January 1960) is a British airline pilot and an aerobatics pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Series, flying a Zivko Edge 540. He is now the championship's head judge.