Go Inside the World's First $1 Million Drone Race 

The whole video doesn't show a single race. Very disappointing.

I'm 62 yo. We've come a long long way from my little 3 piece balsa plane powered from a postal rubber band! I love watching you kids go! Looking forward to watching us landing on Mars before I pass.

6 minute long vid and no real racing scene. lame!

What kills me are the fire retardant suits 😂🤣😂🤣

I tried to organize this in the USA over 2 years ago, it was really tough to get support. UAE did It though .... nice job !

He said the industry would be worth $4 billion in 2020 but it's actually worth $22 billion. I think I'm going to get into drones

This is nothing. Wait until teams are racing full size predator drones with mini nuclear power plants. That's a race is like to see. The track could be the entire Sahara desert. Or up to the top of Everest and back.

Why drone operators are dressed like formula 1 drivers?? 😂

casey neistat would lose in the first fiew seconds

299 dislikes by people who came to see a video of race footage rather than a video of talking and 7 seconds of race footage.

now we will see abandoned high end drones along with forgotten supercars all over Dubai

Why are they all wearing racing gear like they're about to jump in a car? It's pretty ridiculous to try to look so "pro" when you're flying a drone.

I watched this vid when it first came out, and again just now. Wow the sport has come along way since the video release. Not sure on the scale they were expecting, however defiantly in technology.

The road-racing race suit is clearly the right outfit for drone pilots. Oh wait...... that is a space suit!

"Even officials aren't sure who has won"

When my first wireless camera system's showed up at my door, i plugged myself into the equipment and I instantly saw the future. I told my friends in about 20 years you will see teams, race courses, huge prizes, betting systems along with televised media networks bringing a multi billion dollar industry to the fans, all they said was, "Vinnie i bet your right". About 20 years ago my first wireless video systems cost almost 2000 dollars, for that i got 2 full systems to set up two racing aircraft minus the aircraft, quad copter tech was not invented yet and i had to use a a fixed wing design for my model. The video systems that i bought were specked for about a 20 mile range, stable high quality video at close range is what i needed for the business model. Looks like the business model is still looking for that winning aircraft design.

...and I thought my phantom 4 in sport mode is fast :D

While todays tracks use natural landscape and buildings, and are nice, I would love to see a track like this come around again.

I love when a respected business news outlet uses terms like "10-times less" :D

I dreamt about a drone racetrack like this year's ago. Wowza

Big Dubian dollars!

I'm surprised no one has mentioned casey neistat

I really really love that this exists

This will boost the engineering of Drones, respekt.

Awesome idea, but it should evolve more, so the track can react on the pilot's achievements, and the public can be more involved to the show. You're pioneering the new kind of a sport here, don't make same mistakes as F1 did, which is boring as hell now. Make it powerful, make it kicking, clash real and digital worlds, create an amazing UX, while you can!

a drone heavy lift competition would be cool too. You could have different weight classes.

UAE back at it again with pushing the envelope...🤟🏿

Congratulations World you are now in the Future.

if you were to talk to someone 500 years ago they would wonder how your suppose to get a horse to run this track, when you tell them youll be flying a piece of plastic through it, at 100mph, while in complete control and not even looking at it, they would laugh or say you're a witch. Technology is amazing what a great time to be alive.

"even the judge dont know who won" " tornado miles up front all the sudden is lost" this is the big leagues lmao?

I am just finding this video now!! Pretty cool.

Awesome, should be thrilling managing the speed on track which doesn't look easy.

What an amazing course...and just think.... if you took your time and were really careful you would beat some of the fastest racers.... that crashed. The only thing worse than going too slow is going too fast.... ;-)

Two words to become champ. "Muscle memory" if you can turn a corner without thinking and do it every single time you've got nothing to lose!

amaizing race for droneee.. like likeeeee

"a big dawg?! how much that drone hitchu foh" ©

This is actually pretty damn good in terms of making people craft better drones for future usage. Mastering drones will probably give us an edge on future VTOL cars. Just maybe.

so a bunch of grown men get beat by a 15 y/o

The Force is strong with this one.

Flying drones and racing them = FUN and Excitement. Watching a race on TV = YAWN

So it only costs a $1 to race a million drones in Dubai?

I miss the days when Chad, Mr.Steele, and everyone where still in Rotor Riot

I wish I could double like the video. Its so fascinating

Jeezzzz...... Never knew this day would come....

5:13 Mr Steele xd

It would be nice if you actually showed more that some seconds of race footage and not only people talking in ridiculous fireproof overalls (as if you had any fuel there that could burn...) I remember being looked at like a freak when I tried this in the 90s... ^^ With NiMH cells, brushed motors, analog ccd cams with potato resolution on makeshift VHF transmitters and one of the first gyro modules that cost an arm and a leg!

Great advertisement for why I've never heard of Drone Racing before now.

I had no idea this was a thing. Nobody ever lifted my rock up to let me know.

How much latency is there in the video feed to the pilots?

Welcome to sports in 2016

super idea! Middle East rocking !

Wow what an awesome idea!

Plot twist contract specifies "250,00 Doll Hairs*

"Now THIS is podracing!!!"

gonna be incredible

Can't wait for the first drone war

entertainment? for who? the person controlling them yeah . watching? what a streak of light running around

The title makes it seem like there's a million drones, competing for $1.

That whole thing came and went faster than a drone can fly.

That’s so awesome!

4:33 Does he have a terminator eye?! :O

can program a drone and it will flight all track on his own that simple

I cant wait til this sport gets so big where anyone can compete from around the world remotely

thats just sick track all ive gotta say

Coming up to a racing event when at the end "not even the officials are sure who won" doesnt seem much fun.

Screw this, give us Pod Racing.

Looks fun as hell

would be cool if this events comes up every year...

stop at 4:34min ... Zombies incoming

Stop talking just show the race 🤔

Omg, I was there watching this!

Astounding hobby/sport/innovators! The very best will have military careers.

This video really droned on... Get it? Droned... on... Hehe.... ok i will see myself out now.

5:12 Steele?

This is the future, also the future to flying cars maybe.

Come on BLOOMBERG give us a race

what about the on road rc industry, hmm? no it will stay a hobby

UFO's are Alien drones!

This is really cool, better than those other nerd sports like e-sports which unlike this have no productive outcome. This kind of competition can do for commercial drone technology what the Schneider cup did for airplanes in the early 20th century, as long as these guys have the freedom to improve their designs every year some benefit comes out of this. Good on those guys in Dubai for supporting this, hopefully we'll see this again next year.

That is so cool!

4:33 what is up with that guys eye?

hyped version of fpv racing.. money ruined it.

Yay where clapping for Saturday

One of these days, I'm going to try and build the first real drone podracer. Better hope that Dubai's willing to build us a Boonta Eve Classic sometime soon. XP

Geeks similar to Bill Gates?? He's definitely stoned. Flying drones will make you a billionaire.. lmao

This is a recruting for droneflying contract killers. fast, silent, non retraceable.

These young kids are the best. Will not find a 70 age man here for try outs.

I can see VR taking over the need for all the physical stuff, would love to watch stuff like this on TV

It annoys me that they use "drone" instead of "go". For example, "3,2,1,drone". This gimmick shows they aren't ready to be popular. "Go" is standard. Want your sport at the Olympics? Then use "On your marks, set, (then a horn or fake gun blast).

What a nice track ! .... and sooo worse presentation .... one seconds scenes, filming always the back of the people, unsharp & blurred pictures ...How a pity, unfortunately 6 minutes only crap 16 sec quite ok

dubai is amazing

Looks pretty sick

thrill seekers ? LOL Next they will be calling them Athletes...

"Pilot"

This video is very great.

I've got a mini drone and I race my friends when they have big ones

Dubai is such a fucking joke. This race pretty much confirms they have no common sense. They could do so much good, but nope, lets build flower shaped islands, gold plate bugati's and race toys for 1mill. Awesome track, but why the F is the prize a million? Ruins it for me. They're trying to make flying toys as prestigious as F1 when it simply isnt. Just ridiculous.

drone race............... honestly, who gives a shit?

I already knew this would be in Dubai

Racing drones is the future