FPVR Exhibition Cup and DroneX Qualifier

FPVR Exhibition Cup, Pirtek Stadium, Parramatta
Saturday19th October 2016

Article by Dave Purebred
The FPVR.org team and Drone Racing World would like to thank all Pilots and Visitors who attended.

RACING RECAP:

The FPVR Exhibition Cup has been born, an event which we plan to hold once per year, not to determine the best in the state, not fussed to be a national event, just straight up, high quality drone racing for everyone and anyone who is interested to attend and/or compete.

These events will be held in unique locations, with flare, focus and professionalism.

We’ll let the videos speak more on this one, and there is plenty of them around.

When we were offered the Pirtek Stadium Parramatta event it was both daunting and exciting. We at FPVR wanted to make this a high quality endeavour, thank you to those that shared the vision, after all, we had a 24,000 capacity arena to use at our own will. The Parramatta stadium was opened in 1985 (steeped in history prior) and now in 2016 it is set for complete demolition to make way for a modern higher capacity stadium. This was truly a unique opportunity, and a first of its kind in Australia, but lets get to the important stuff.

The results:

FPVR EXHIBITION CUP had 34 starters, 4 heats, down to 2 semis then finals.

4th Representing Sydney and Team FMR, Lee Stevenson AKA BONEZ! Lee’s character really shows in his flying style, and his consistent finishes near the top are driving him to want to take the #1 spot. An exciting pilot to watch.

3rd The Novocastrian, Lionel Stead!, Lionel held off the competition taking maximum points throughout his heats. (point of interest* All four finalists were the top 4 throughout the heats)

2nd Fellow Novocastrian and one of the most level headed pilots in Australia, all round fast guy, Ghost, Pete Grehan

But first place gets the glory, the prestige, the Return trip and accommodation to Melbourne for the DroneX championship in November and of course the inaugural FPVR EXHIBITION CUP, hold it high, he earned it with straight wins in all 4 heats, 2 semis and all 3 rounds of the finals the Queenslander, doing it mighty fast, Mr. Josh Eddy JEDDY!

Congratulations All, we had fun. Plenty more to come.

Check out the updated leader board and peruse the event calendar for the remaining Season, 5 EVENTS IN NOVEMBER.

We’re just getting started.

The FPVR Team:

Benedikt Haak, Ash Rane, Alex McConnachie & Rob Robbie Spankie for their work over both days.
Thanks to the Pilots, the visitors, the fans, YOU are the reason we keep doing this, YOU are the reason it happens.

Big shout outs to Fridays track set up volunteers: Noel Harris, Rob Bailey, Troy Troy Allan McDonald, Junyu Joe Zhao, William Chung, Lee Stevenson, Peter Daniel and all those who made pack down a lot easier than it looked. Thank you.

A special thanks to Brett from Pirtek/Hunter stadium, good looking out. Cameron McEwan from Audiostatic, coming through with the equipment to even better display the amazing efforts of Benedikt with Track TV and for providing the smooth sounds to race and chill too.

We all look forward to the magic post edit from the footage picked up from both Michael Yee and Randall Huerto, you guys worked hard all day on the cameras and I’m sure you captured the essence of FPVR and the day. Thank you.

Our Sponsors:Nextfpv, Rise Above, HobbyKing.
Affiliates/Supporters: Terence Boyton from Drone Racing World, Drone Racing Australia, Advanced Aerials Services, Aeromodellers NSW, Purebred Poker

REMINDER, NSWMRC Membership is now open, Forms available from the facebook group NSWMRC.

Again thank you for being part of this as we keep pushing forwards
More Pics and Video to come over the next few days.
Stay Tuned & Stay Flying