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

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

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.

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 !

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

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

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.

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

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.

casey neistat would lose in the first fiew seconds

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.

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

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

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.

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"

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.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned casey neistat

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

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!

Big Dubian dollars!

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.

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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.... ;-)

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.

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

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

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

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

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

5:13 Mr Steele xd

"Now THIS is podracing!!!"

World : we introduce to you a building Dubai : creates burj khalifa World : we introduce to you drones Dubai : 1 million drone race track

This will boost the engineering of Drones, respekt.

Welcome to sports in 2016

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!

Congratulations World you are now in the Future.

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

Plot twist contract specifies "250,00 Doll Hairs*

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

The Force is strong with this one.

Everyone, this proof that boys don't grow up our toys just get bigger and more expensive. How fun.

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

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

KZfaq user " metalldanny " is hands down my favorite KZfaq quad racer. Side Note: And I sure as hell wish people would stop referring to these type of craft as " Drones ". They're hobby grade craft that aren't flown autonomous and therefore don't qualify as " A drone ".

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

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

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

Can't wait for the first drone war

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

stop at 4:34min ... Zombies incoming

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

1:28 Tareq al Saadi: The most unbelievable RC heli pilot ever

Come on BLOOMBERG give us a race

Stop talking just show the race 🤔

Screw this, give us Pod Racing.

I'm curious how they are going to film this so spectators can watch, I don't think filming the same as a NASCAR race will work. Also, I think the 4 Billion dollar industry is a stretch by 2020. This stuff is interesting, keep it coming.

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

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

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

I really really love that this exists

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

UFO's are Alien drones!

5:12 Steele?

I think it really could be a big deal. Possibly live TV one day. They just need good leadership. Like better camera angles. Or perhaps tournament style racing where two or three drones go after it at a time with the winner advancing to the next round and so on. Different races would have to be differently structured based off of their financial significance. That's how this $1 million dollar drone race becomes a series of $1 million(or more) drone races. Playoffs and everything......

Racing drones is the future

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

4:33 what is up with that guys eye?

1million dollar drone track. Can't wait to see what a billion dollars would do.

The day they create a large plastic pipe that these drones fly through will be the day I will be truly impressed.

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

hyped version of fpv racing.. money ruined it.

Glad a kid won and not an overgrown one !!!.

Luke Bannister won the World drone prix

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

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).

OMG F-ZERO X IN REAL LIFE!!! +1

03:26 I wonder if the FPV industry is worth 4 bi dollars already. Doesn't feel like it looking at the current shops that sells them.

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

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

Soooo is it a 20 billion dollar industry yet?

Race began at 5:23

"Pilot"

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.

time to buy a wifi frequency jammer :-)

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.

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

Cool! Line of sight with different orientations is a lot more difficult than FPV. 🚁🤟

Everyone is complaining it’s not a 4bn hobby it’s because it’s a diy hobby but there are lots of companies coming in like iflight creating bnf quads already setup

No, but I want to see them sitting on a pilot's chair with a VR on and remotely flying their drone. Now that's a futuristic sight. EDIT: Oh wait they are omg

5:10 is the best part

super idea! Middle East rocking !

Now this is pod racing

Boy did that bubble ever pop.