McLaren Vs Drone Racing Is Awesome Because Of Course It Is

To promote the World Drone Prix - taking place in Dubai on 11 and 12 March - Dubai Police used its 650S to race a super fast UAV, piloted by a kid...

Matt Robinson

07 Mar 2016

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

I guess it was dronetastic :D

So cool.

Dubai’s police has the world’s best police livery in my opinion , anyone agrees?

Kimi; GET THAT MCLAAREN OUT OF MY WAY!

In complete honesty, the video was bad - the cuts were way too dynamic to understand what’s happening and everything was way too flashy. The driving wasn’t exactly superb either.

Why don’t they make a game in which you can choose character in every race, drone or car, and unlocking achievements and tracks…it would be so cool

It’s cool but there’s no way the drone actually won. That must’ve been staged because those things top out at like 90 whereas the Mclaren can more than double that. In the straights the drone wouldn’t be able to catch up

I fly these “drones” I prefer the word quadcopter but here are my observation on the video:

There is no way the quad was faster than the 650S in a straight line.
That kid wasn’t flying the quad.
Definitely several takes because the range on race quads isn’t very far.
90-110 MPH isn’t unheard of for a race quad but that speed usually comes at a cost of agility.