 Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to Road Ride. I'm Alex Fanover. I'm Bubby at Phoebe and I'm P-Devix. And guys, we have this awesome drone right here. It's called the Vision 40. If you haven't seen our video on the Vision 40, we're gonna have a link in the description down below to watch that. But we are out here at the office in California and we decided to be really fun because Mr. James over here has not done much racing. Actually, you haven't done any racing, that's right. This has been my first time on a track. Wow. First time on a track. That's crazy. So we wanted to set up a track not only to showcase, you know, what the Vision 40s can do on a race track but also what a great way to introduce you to some racing as well, because we might have some racing things coming up here in the near future that we need you to be a part of. So why not fly this thing, which is indestructible and you can just bang off the walls and whatnot and keep on going. So we set up a really cool track here. Thank you to the Sharma Group for letting us use this space. We have a bunch of LEDs set up. We have a track that goes all inside, all outside. So all the footage that you guys see will be what we see in the goggles. HD, we're using the Fat Shark Voxnail avatar system. Yeah, you know, I've never really flown whoops that much in HD and at Rampage with this was kind of my first time really getting to push it. So I haven't done much stuff with racing on this and I'm really, really excited because the latency is really nice too on the walk snail system. So I think it's going to be really fun for racing. I'm excited to see you race. Yeah, I'm just, I've been enjoying just having HD in a loop finally. Well, something that's actually like you can whip around and fly freestyle. So yeah guys, this is going to be kind of like a fun fly episode where we're teaching James how to race, we're racing around the course ourselves. We hope you guys enjoy and let's go and get to it. So I've been crashing a lot like trying to get faster and faster and it got me thinking like in a race when you're a beginner should you try to go as fast as you can or is it better to just kind of slow down and try to make a lap? Yeah, that's a good question. We actually did a racing episode two, a couple of years back that we'll also link in the description down below where I talked a bit about this when it comes to racing strategy. I always tell new people just finish at the end of the day because half the time, half the pilots crash out on the race. So if you just stay up, even if you're in fourth place, your odds are 50% that everyone crashes out in front of you and you win the race. Okay, yeah. So while you're learning, I think it's good for you too because it's important to do laps consistently and when you're doing that, you're naturally going to get faster. But when you're early on in racing and you're just like pushing, pushing, pushing, you're going to be crashing way more than you're actually just getting laps and getting repetition because racing is really all about repetition on a course. Like how fast can you learn a course and be able to repeat the laps over and over again? So I think this will translate too well to your freestyle because racing is about being really precise going through obstacles, gates, keeping lines flowing smoothly from one element to the other. That translates really well over to freestyle where when you're freestyling now, you're going to have that confidence to go through those gaps even more. But also as a freestyle pilot, you're going to have that smoothness and the ability to kind of swoop through lines that you'll be able to translate over to racing. So it's good whether you guys are freestyle pilots or racing pilots, be sure to venture into the other side of things if you want to get better at the one that you love the most. Yeah, I do notice that a lot of the racers tend to be very precise freestyle pilots. Like they can put the quad exactly where it needs to go. I think it's like all those Jacobs ladders and things like that that just like built them to do that. Yeah, exactly. And the freestyle pilots are always like the smoothest ones to the racing course and keeping it smooth and steady wins the races. We've heard many, many times before. So yeah, I would just recommend you just like try and do a whole battery without hitting anything, tapping anything. Even if it's like ugly at times, like start with that and once you're doing that over and over again, then start to pump the throttle up a little bit more. Just like the goal should be to be finishing three out of every four batteries without mistakes. Okay. Until like you get really comfortable and then by the end of the night, I want to see you like just pushing as hard as you can out there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to see raging out there. Yeah, I mean, it's fun to like really like pitch it sideways and just try to make it turn throttle. Yeah, especially in these cars. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see what happens. All right, James. So we raised vision 40s all night. Are you hooked on racing now or? Yeah. What are you thinking? No. No, it's terrible. Now I had a lot of fun. It was a, it's something that like I always felt like was too structured for someone like me who like is really into freestyle. And so, I mean, doing it like this where it's kind of less, where there's less pressure, you know, there's not like high stakes or anything. Right. Just getting together with all the buddies. Yeah, yeah. And something that's like one S, you can crash into all the walls, setting up gates, making it look cool with all the lights. Yeah. That was awesome. So I think this style of racing is something that I can get into. Maybe not like the big five. Yeah, yeah. Just, I mean, just, we're just having fun. I think that's the one nice thing about whoops. It's like, it was not like super serious to it. Cause it'd be just crash them and get back up. With five inch racing, man, I just remember going out there and I was, I'd burn like five motors in a day and just out there. Yeah. It's really grinding, but this is more just having fun with your buddies. Yeah. Yeah. Totally. I mean, I had a lot of fun racing the vision 40. It was fun to like really put it through its paces on the DRL style track. And racing in HD is just awesome. I mean, it's a whole different experience compared to flying whoops previously. Yeah. So that was really cool flying the course and big shout out to the ghost base and the Sharma group for letting us use our office to do our route racing in. So yeah, if you guys want to pick up the vision 40, go ahead and check it out and the link in the description. We sell it in a bind and fly and a built kit. So whatever it is and to us. One S and two S. They were ripping the one S, but if you want it, the super saucy two S. Go ahead and try that. Link's in the description to all that. If you guys liked this video, make sure to like it, subscribe, press the notification bell and comment. I'll see you guys next time on Road to Ride. See you guys. I have to race the world champion. Yeah, Alex Zenover, 2019 DRL world champion. Yeah, I gotta race him too. Okay, this should be fine.