Season 04R05 Turin · Aakre wins
Redout
Blood to the head. Eyes on the gate.
The professional FPV racing league
Sixteen pilots. Eight rounds. A hundred and forty kilometres an hour through a gate the width of a doorway, in the dark, on a video feed that arrives a tenth of a second late. Real races, real gates, real crashes, real prize money.
- 16Pilots on the grid
- 8Rounds, three continents
- €240KSeason prize pool
- —Of starts end in a DNF
The sport
A racing quad weighs less than a bag of sugar and pulls more G than a fighter. The pilot sees what the quad sees, through goggles, from a camera the size of a coin. The course is twelve gates. The race is three laps through them, faster than anyone else, without touching anything.
- 0km/hThrough the split gate
- 0mGate aperture
- 0sFastest lap this season
- 0sQuickest off the tone
Turin · Foundry Shed · 12 gates
One lap,
gate by gate
Every gate carries a timing loop. The split you see is the split the pilot sees, in the goggles, a fifth of a second after it happened.
The start
0.19
seconds
A race starts on a tone, not a flag. Five lights come on, one a second. A random hold. Lights out. The grid is off the line in a fifth of a second. Arm the gantry and find out where you would sit on it.
After five rounds
Standings
Season 04
Eight rounds
The machine
Built
to break
Five-inch props, a carbon plate under a millimetre thick, four motors at thirty thousand a minute and a battery that gives everything up in ninety seconds. A quad costs less than the goggles. That is the point. Every pilot rebuilds between heats, at a bench in the pit lane, with the crowd on the rail.
Stand in the pit lane- 604gAll-up weight, battery in
- 30k rpmMotor speed, full throttle
- 90sBattery, flat out
The grid
Sixteen pilots
Round 06 · Lisbon · Cement Hall · 03 October
Be at the rail
Doors at six. Qualifying at seven. The final under the lights at ten, with the pit lane open until they sweep the carbon off the floor.
A season pass is eight rounds of pit lane for less than six of them bought one at a time.
Hold seats