Drone Champions League
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| sport | FPV racing |
| abbreviation | DCL |
| League foundation | 2016 |
| Title holder | NEXXBlades Racing |
| Website | www.dcl.aero |
The Drone Champions League ( DCL ) is a racing series in the international FPV racing sport and was launched in 2016 by Herbert Weirather in the Principality of Liechtenstein . The quadrocopters , also known as race drones, are steered through a three-dimensional race track with first-person-view goggles at speeds of up to 160 km / h .
history
In 2016 Herbert Weirather founded Drone Champions AG, which acts as the organizer of the Drone Champions League (DCL), together with the sports marketing agency WWP (Weirather, Wenzel & Partner). Weirather himself previously worked as a race engineer with aerobatic pilot Hannes Arch and was himself an aerobatic pilot. Since the founding of DCL, the entrepreneur has had the vision of "enabling everyone to have the dream of flying" in the foreground.
DCL's main sponsors and partners include WWP (Weirather - Wenzel & Partner), Red Bull , Seat , McDonald’s , Breitling and Tencent .
The DCL finished its third season in October 2018 and will start its fourth season in May 2019 with the Drone Prix Laax ( Laax , Switzerland ) on the Crap Sogn Gion .
Regulations and race format
At the DCL, four pilots compete against each other in the form of teams. Each Drone Prix starts with the qualification laps, in which the racing times of the individual drivers are counted. The sum of these times gives an overall result for each team. After a comparison, the teams that meet in the final rounds are determined with the help of the qualification times.
In the quarter-finals as well as in the semi-finals and finals, two teams compete against each other and have to complete five so-called "heats", which usually consist of three rounds. There are four rounds in the “Single Heats”, with a pilot from Team A competing against a pilot from Team B - the winner gets one point for his team. In the “Big Heat” that follows, all eight drones are in the air - the first pilot at the finish (Crashgate) receives the “Big Heat” point for his team. Bonus points can be achieved by having two, three or four pilots from the same team land in consecutive positions.
DCL season 2017
After the debut in August and November 2016 in Reutte ( Tyrol , Austria ) and Salina Turda ( Romania ), the DCL started the first official season in June 2017 with the opening race on the Champs-Élysées in Paris with 150,000 spectators. The 2017 tour then took the DCL to Vaduz ( Liechtenstein ), where the FL1 Grand Prix was held right in front of the state government building. The third race - Grand Prix Brussels - took place at Mont des Arts (Kunstberg) in Brussels ( Belgium ). The last tour stop before the grand finale was in Salina Turda (Romania) for the second time. The season finale was held in the listed brick hall “Station Berlin” in Berlin ( Germany ), where NEXXBlades Racing from Great Britain emerged as the overall winner.
A total of nine teams were represented in the 2017 Drone Champions League:
- NEXXBlades Racing ( Great Britain ) - Championship Winner 2017
- NEXXBr Freeflow ( UK )
- Conrad Racing ( Germany )
- FPVRACING.CH ( Switzerland )
- Rotorama ( Czech Republic )
- Flyduino KISS Racing ( Germany )
- Immersion Racing (International)
- GEMFAN (International)
- Wild Prop (International)
DCL season 2018
Teams 2018
The following teams had a fixed starting place in the DCL season 2018:
- NEXXBlades Racing ( Great Britain )
- Quad Force One ( USA )
- Rotorama ( Czech Republic )
- DMM Raiden Racing ( Japan )
- Air Carvers Germany ( Germany )
- Swiss Black Kites ( Switzerland )
- China Dragons ( China )
Drone Prix Munich (Munich, Germany)
The DCL kicked off the 2018 season in the Olympic Park in Munich with the Drone Prix Munich. The event was organized in cooperation with Munich MASH during Germany's largest action festival, MASH FEST.
Winner day 1: Rotorama
Winner day 2: NEXXBlades Racing
Drone Prix Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
As part of the Expodronica in Madrid , the next race was held in the "Plaza de Toros Las Ventas" bullring in Madrid.
Winner day 1: NEXXBlades Racing
Winner Day 2: Quad Force One
Drone Prix Beijing (W-Town, Simatai Great Wall, Beijing, China)
With the Drone Prix Beijing, DCL first entered the Asian market, which is one of the largest markets in the drone sector. The third race took place directly on a section of the Great Wall of China ( Simatai ) in the city of W-Town.
Winner day 1: Rotorama
Winner day 2: NEXXBlades Racing
Drone Prix Brussels (Brussels, Belgium)
Brussels was also the venue for a race in the 2018 DCL season, which was again held at Mont des Arts (Kunstberg) in partnership with Carbon 12 011.
Winner day 1: NEXXBlades Racing
Winner day 2: NEXXBlades Racing
Drone Prix Lake Zurich (Rapperswil-Jona, Switzerland)
The season finale of the DCL 2018 took place in Rapperswil-Jona on Lake Zurich - directly at Rapperswil Castle , which is known for the Polish-Swiss friendship. The season finale was carried out in cooperation with Rapperswil University (HSR) and Rapperswil Zürichsee Tourismus.
Winner day 1: NEXXBlades Racing
Winner day 2: NEXXBlades Racing
At the 2018 DCL season finale in Rapperswil , NEXXBlades Racing emerged as defending champion and overall winner.
Individual evidence
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