 What's up guys welcome to Rotorite. My name is Alex van over. I'm lovely FTV and I'm the drip and today We have a really exciting episode I'm back in Orlando with these guys and of course that means we're gonna do some type of racing, but we're gonna change it up a Little bit today. I'm not gonna be racing in this But I have some racing quads for you guys and they're all set up ready to go You're gonna race each other. Okay, so it's me versus Drew. It's gonna be you versus Drew Yeah, I'm out of us really do much of this racing. No, it's gonna happen on this episode is I'm gonna coach each These guys individually threw a few batteries and then these guys are gonna race each other This year I'm gonna be trying to qualify with the multi GP qualifiers So I'll be really interested to get Alex's like some tips for him on racing because right now I know nothing so normally when you guys like fly a multi GP five inch quad This is kind of what it looks like right here usually use like a six cell battery Okay, but means it goes. Whoa, where'd it go? We're not gonna use that. I don't even use that We're gonna use a three cell battery that's way to hundred you raise the KV So it's gonna be like still pretty much as fast as you're not really actually six. There's still six cell motors So you're gonna go really really slow, and there's a few reasons for this It's gonna make you fly really smooth, but tight racing lines And that's kind of the idea is if you're using a really fast, you know set up like on a six cell battery What tends to happen is people just get carried away with the power and they're just trying to full throttle Their way through the track versus trying to find the optimal racing line And when you get into that pro level of racing if you're not on the correct racing line You're just not gonna win So this is going to force you to take that proper racing line And I think make the racing a little bit more interesting this this isn't my original idea By the way, there's a bunch of people to thank in the multi GP communities such as Sean Ames Armando and Evan Turner They actually have a whole series where they take these drones, and then they raise them on three cell I'm not gonna lie a few times. I've flown like a true race drone. It's super high up till very skinny arms are Very very fast, and I do kind of I kind of struggle to keep them under control I mean feel how life that is. I think it also has to do with the camera angle being so high Whenever you're looking straight. It's just going like super fast, right? No, absolutely So this is the set we're gonna be racing today. We have a 533 switchback We have my brand new hype train version two motors. You can check those out in the link in the description down below We have a fox here a 60 amp Reaper ESC We have a fox here flight controller. We have the immersion RC ghost hybrid boards That's your receiver and your video transmitter in one. It's got built-in pit switch. Super cool We got two capacitors on the back We have a luminear antenna and of course a fox here camera with a 1.7 lens I'm curious to see how you guys like that does that mean it's like super wide It's very very wide It does take a little bit of getting used to but I think it allows you to either run a really high or low Camera angle but still have enough field of view to be able to fly So I'll actually demo the course for you guys as well so you can kind of see the lines I'm gonna take being able to race through a course is gonna make your guys freestyle even better because Racing is all about being technical and going through these gates that at really high speeds that are super small and figuring out Which lines are gonna chain them together? I mean it's really helped my freestyle and I think it's gonna help you guys become even better pilots You guys ready for the course? I'm ready. All right. Here we go Okay, so you're gonna come around the tree It's still this you're gonna come into this gate. I'm just showing it for you guys Did you just miss a gate? No, I got through it. Now you went through it through here through this boom I'm kind of flying it how I would as well boom the first battery That's one lap We're a little faster trying to go as fast as you can. It's a little warm up Okay, so now he's all right. I see you so again. I'm trying to figure out as well and I'm learning the course I'm not trying to kill my quad on the first battery I'm just trying to learn where the gates are Wow Really cutting in there. It is so crazy to see the difference between lap one and lap two and now oh And lap three Yeah, I'm just I'm learning what the quad can and can't do. Mm-hmm. I'm not even full-throttling And this is three cell they went just old and washed up And when you guys practice, you're gonna get as many laps as lap for yeah But you're gonna get as many lapses you want during practice just once you qualify you only get that was a lot smoother Yep, but you're left to still correct on that. I mean, I think I think if you could find the right line You wouldn't have to do that correction, right? Or but you've got locked down. Well, though, you just cut right into this. This is how I would probably want to do it right now It's just you want to spiral the shave speed Yeah, you can spiral the shave speed, but it's not the most efficient line But if it comes down to like a like lack of confidence. I know I can hit that every time The spiral every time the spiral into the game every time Like I can come out here Yeah, cuz I can do that It's not like a car with brakes So you have to shave off your speed with throttling the other way in a sense correct or letting it naturally like Like that's an airbrake right there, right? So how could you airbrake this this spiral so I could like Like that. Yeah, like I feel like this might be faster Even though it seems slower because you have to be patient You know, it's slow and fast out just like a so let's talk about the racing lines really quick So let's go from the start. We're gonna go real slow here. There's really nothing special about this This is just 180 degree turn. We found that You know even doing that is pretty quick. Yeah through here You don't want to exit too fast because then you're gonna have to make a really abrupt turn So let me demonstrate the the wrong way to do it if you come really fast through here You say you're like having a prop wash and you're being inefficient Yeah, so if you can even if you come in slower Look at that. You're already to the next gate now this gate I think is gonna be the critical one for you guys. You could come over this gate And that's good, but I think though when you're going really fast So it's a higher risk line because you're using all your power to come out of there and also you risk going into This side of the gate right here So the split S is probably a little bit safer because you know, you can line up rice flip flop boy and do that So what I would recommend you guys is just experiment, you know when you're racing to you guys Sometimes if you're really far ahead, you don't need to take the fastest racing life I was really far ahead in the race. Yeah, you're really far ahead. Don't crash your don't crash out So but if you're like really far behind you got to catch up carry speed through it Now this line here as well if you come in to this gate too tight Like if you're going slow, it's nice But let me demonstrate what would happen if you come into that too fast and too tight because you're gonna be coming out of that Here we go. You're like you see how I'm prop washing making two turns instead of one Yeah, so what you really want to do though is you don't necessarily want to come too wide either But I would come like this and you see how right when I get to the apex of the turn right about here I'm throttling throttling through it and I'm letting the quad naturally so I'm not pitching the quad down I'm just letting the quad naturally descend through the gate. So let's do one more time Coming out throttle Nice, and this is just a straight line. We'll do one more lap. Yeah, three point three. Is that cool? Yeah, it's cool That was not That's it. That's the tricky one. It is so unassuming. I would not have thought that that remember when we were doing the walk I was like fairly a tire. It's not even gonna be hard and now watch you do it I'm like, oh, that's the hardest feature isn't it? Yep And that's the thing I do like a course where it has one really hard feature because this is an area where let's say One person is ahead of me But they're taking a safe line if I came in here with a lot of risk, you know, I might be able to catch them So that's what makes it fun about racing is you having one really tricky element where maybe if you're really far ahead You sacrifice speed for a safe line. Yeah, but I would recommend for you guys just going out You can even just go spend some time. Normally in a multi GP race You have two minutes to practice. You don't have to be going through the course. You can just be working on one element I know a lot of top guys including myself will go out and if we're really struggling to find the best line We'll just find one element to work on. Let's do this as close to like a real experience as possible I think we should both we should get two minutes. We should both go fly at the same time I'm gonna give you a little bit more so three s racing. Yeah, now we're done So three s racing you get more than two minutes because the more flight time So we're gonna give you guys four minutes once the time is up though. You finish your lap So that's that's the multi GP rule drew try your absolute best, but no the best storyline is one where you lose Yeah, basically no matter what juror it's kind of a loss for you because if you win you beat up a kid If you lose you lost to a kid You really have nothing to gain killing bubby bubby you have nothing to lose, you know You really have nothing here's my spin. Here's my spin. Okay true dragon ball fans will know That master Roshi couldn't Allow Goku to win his first tournament because if he did then he would lose his drive to succeed So really I have to beat bubby today in order to keep his drive Flickering you guys are gonna get two practice batteries. Your third one is gonna be your qualify It's only gonna be the four laps we talked about and then we're gonna do best out of three racing So normally in drone races like DRL Depending on how you qualify Depends on the podium spot you get so long story short if you have a really fast qualifying time You'll get a better starting position than the next guy So what we're gonna do is once these guys have like learned the track and we do the coaching We're gonna let them each run their best single lap and whoever has the best lap Gets the better podium whoever doesn't gets the worst podium. I'm gonna go up to feel it. Oh, wow. Oh, wow Yep, yeah, I just feel like I'm just going straight So that was bad, right? That was okay. I mean you're again just your first lap through the track We see you do some runs. So the prompt. Nope. Okay Slow down You are going pretty fast, but you want to be consistent before fast So again, you can toilet bowl into that. It's kind of where you spin around it like that All right, so I'm gonna start giving you some coaching here. So let's go through this gate Really smooth. I want to be really smooth. Don't try and take the tree too tight. You're not gonna really save time there Yeah, just just you know try and keep nice and fast though on the throttle around it Nice and fast on the throttle. Yeah, so for you. I know you like to kind of that line there You see how you kind of went in really tight and you almost hit the gate Yeah, so you can choose to do that line or you can do a split S right here. Don't try you don't need to hug it too tight Just come up There you go Slow and steady like in my practice. I'm just doing the dive gate over and over trying to learn it Is that etiquette? Okay, as long as you don't take someone else out of the air than yes So you want to kind of try and beware if you have a spotter they'll tell you hey There's other pilots back off for a moment. That's the etiquette with it as long as you're not taking someone else out So I like how you're doing that line there. It's a little risky. So right there You see how you're having to kind of take an aggressive turn. Yeah, so go back out to that gate real quick I want you to go wider. Why yeah out here not you don't have to go that way But the idea being look how you have a nice turn. Yeah versus you're coming in so tight But you might as well just be split S in the gate. Yeah, there you go. It's right here nice and pretty Yeah, I like to get that altitude just like that. It's a high-risk line. There you go, man. This is great flying I'm super impressed. So drew one thing you like dude You like to let the nose of the drone dip a little bit too much sometimes There's nothing wrong with that except for it makes you require more power to get out of the dives And sometimes you end up hitting the ground because of that okay So I would recommend to you when you're descending remember on your pitch to pull back just a little bit Don't let the nose of the drone Stay too much down you can do that if your intent is to go really really fast But it makes you kind of commit like right here. You see how you're getting really low On an out of that pork screw. So remember to pitch back a little bit Limitation what you're doing when you come through some of these gates like when you do the around the tree Mm-hmm your line looks beautiful, but you're letting the nose. You're not ever pitching back up Mm-hmm. So what happens is you end up descending and you're using throttle to stop the descent Right stop. What's happening is you're clipping the grass and you're getting very very low When you're in that straight coming to this gate right here drew Oh such a beautiful line take advantage of that wide open area and use the throttle You know what I mean like right here throttle and then start slow down But you just have that that time there and look at how you naturally see how Because when you let off the throttle, it's not you're gonna air brake you Same thing here and then as you turn lower the throttle Beautiful, it's risky, but it's beautiful So when you come into that gate, that's gonna be something you just got to pitch back Pitch back you're committing a little too much too soon There you go beautiful. I like how you're leveling out a little bit there It's what I want to see you do on that other gate as well Nice nice and smooth. They're looking great. I feel like I do not need to be that wide on that back It though like I could be yeah, you could be touch shooting it a lot more Pitch there you go. I'm not gonna be able to spot you until you pitch there So you're okay. So right there you're coming in way too divey. I need you to level out that Need you to flatten the drone out a little bit more There you go. That's good line. It's a good line. Okay. That's too tight too tight You're you're turning it you see you're turning in too soon. I want you to late apex that Okay, late apex you're turning in Yep, so we come through here I like how the distance out hold it hold it hold it then there there you go beautiful beautiful Oh, that's what I want. Yep. Remember to flatten out there. Okay flatten flatten flatten flatten flatten Okay, see I love it. I love it. It's great. But just remember it's gonna be a high. I love it. I love it You That was faster. That was fast. That was really it's a fast lap. This is a fast lap Hi, I'm Andrew candon and I'm alex fan over and every day Race gates suffer abuse Race drones slam into them. They bend the structures. They tear up the material sometimes They're even knocked over It's truly a sad thing to keep racetracks built up and looking fresh It takes the hard work of a dedicated fpv community and that's what we have here in Orlando, Florida, but they need your help We need you to visit the link in the description and go to the fpvo aces patreon where you can support This permanent racetrack here in Orlando, Florida for less than the cost of a cup of coffee You can keep this track built up so that when alex van over comes to town. He has a home Let's fly together All right, so to decide who goes first and qualifying because this is very official We're going to do rock paper scissors between the two Whoever wins gets to decide if they want to go first or second I feel like I need to stand in the middle of this because there's a lot of aggression right now Don't touch This is just rock paper scissors. Hey. Hey. Hey. I'm warning. Don't touch. Don't hey Stop it. Don't touch one two three shoot So you win so you get to decide let's go your own first. Good. All right. I got a job gentlemen. I get the watching Here we go. Okay, the dribb approaching about to start lap number one of qualifying Here we go Done bring her in final lap was an 18.14. That's your fastest lap. So 18 so you got better but the first two laps you made mistakes Yeah, the final lap you didn't make a mistake and you shaved off two seconds and you had a pretty good run though That was pretty fast the pressure Even though this is just us filming an episode Doing our thing like I still definitely felt pressure Once I knew it was official and this is all just for fun So like the pressure that racers must feel when it's like a real title on the line It's gotta be in time. I mean that was just qualifiers too and I was like making mistakes that I'd never made before in any of the practice like Like when Drew's qualifying I feel that pressure for him Like I feel it because I know what it feels like to be in that position All right, Babito about to start first lap right now Well, I'm gonna guess let me guess. What do you think his lap time goes? Best lap time? I 15 low six or low six. You did a 15.17 final lap. Low 15 And he did a second lap was a 15.4 and his first lap was a 16.5 He has me on that dive that dive. He just goes through it every time Like you should and one other area when he comes into this like hobby wing thing that slanted when he goes in between those trees He turns right at it besides that you guys are very very similar I'm not gonna get cocky now because I don't know when the race starts, but All right guys, we're gonna have clean race. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Hey. Hey easy easy. Drew. I need you to relax Bubby drew you guys gonna have a clean race first one win two races wins You guys want to touch goggles touch them now? Good. Let's do it gentlemen. Let's go Arm your quads. We're racing on my signal in less than five Race It's gonna be a really close race It looks like drew actually with a little bit of a lead even though we started behind Bubby and they're both through our dive game We're watching them visually and they are swinging around bubby with a little bit faster racing line than drew This is just the opener lap of our penultimate race right here Drew rexing with a lot of speed keeping bubby in his side. So they go on to lap number two Drew chasing bubby toe in the number one spot bubby with an aggressive line drew Clip in the dive gate, but bubby also going a little wide making a mistake That's going to give drew a little bit of time to catch up But bubby now has about a three second lead over drew as he's about to go on to lap number three Drew has some catch up to do is he going to be able to make it happen They got two laps left to go halfway through this race Bubby with a really safe dive gate line drew coming in really tight and make it up a lot of time on a bit Oh, no, we actually missed the dive gate. That's going to cost drew even more time He's going to have to make up so much time now as bubby is going on to his final lap right now with about a Four second advantage over drew. Is he going to be able to make that up? Who knows? But we're going to find out right now bubby going safely through the dive gate going through our tree section Drew though with an insanely fast dive gate line That's going to make him a little bit more in contention to race here, but unfortunately for this first race It's all bubby So after hearing you commentates actually look a little bit pressuring That's how it feels in a race though. So I was kind of taking that Swirl dive as opposed to going straight at it and try to stay a little safer Yep, and that's great And you know ultimately you just kind of have to go off of my commentating your instincts and figure out whether you want to You know play it safe or not I think in your position too, but it allowed him to go really aggressive and catch you Yeah, but he was playing chase my confidence Well chase sucks being back because I felt all that pressure It was I hate you. I was like I can't play it safe. I have to go for it Especially when it came down to the last lap. I'm like Well, I either really go for it or I crash and either way it's the same result So I might as well just go for it. Yep. I did and I caught up a couple times But then I got sloppy and I missed a couple gates and I had to circle back Honor you guys were close to on that first time you caught him on the start So he only has to win one more. He has to win one more. You have to win this next one. All right gentlemen Are we going to go to a third race or is this going to be it for bubby? All right, this is it. This is going to be a clean race. Pilots arm your quads and less than five go Man bubby with a really fast launch with drew right on his tail They're going into the dive gate drew with an aggressive line now a little bit ahead of bubby But bubby making the pass immediately on drew after going through the trees section bubby in the number one spot Drew goes down drew is down after our carousel. Well, bubby wins just absolute choked I thought we had a a master roshi goku moment, but really it was uh I'm a cheetah Are you really doing that as a second race? I think I gotta race this kid now. Oh, Alex. You want to race me? What you want to go? Yeah, let's go. All right. I don't even need to touch up to you on practice batteries. I'll just go Let's do it. Let's do it. I'll just this is a lose loose for me, too It's anyone's game. Let's go arm your quads In less than five Alex has a huge lead Okay, Alex has a three second lead on bubby. It is looking good for the captain Coming around tight. Bubby's getting aggressive trying to play catch up Oh boy, Alex has a mastery of that dive gap bubby. He flubs it a little bit Coming in. Oh clip to gate bubby. Run your race. Run your race What for van over five second lead van over's got it's looking pretty clear how this is gonna go Van over can take it nice and easy here Final lap She wrote captain van over maintains his title You know, I expected a little bit more of a lead. So bubby was right on his butt five seconds is a lot I don't know man. Not from the very first race ever to Years of racing. You're right. You did very good. No, that was very I was I was shocked. You guys both did great I was very impressed. You both ran your race. Can I just say one thing though? Watching you fly in the practice runs in the qualifying I was really impressed by your line choice the throttle you were taking the straights Like you definitely have all the skills you need to be a racing pilot You have some more practice and getting comfortable at those higher speeds Man, I think you'd be a great racing pilot. Thank you. Could I be a racing pilot? Alex? I think you should stick to flippy flops All right guys, that was really fun getting to try racing. It's something that I always enjoy When I get to do it. It's really a good time I do think I'll probably be sticking to freestyle bubby. You really Impressed me with how quickly you picked it up, but we are both really lucky to have gotten some coaching from you man This is really fun. Thanks for coming out here Yeah, of course giving us some tips helping us improve letting us fly your drones that are set up for this This was really really fun. Yeah, and they really took a beating too guys I highly encourage you guys out there too. You can do this type of racing super cheap These batteries are like $10 batteries versus like the $40 six cell batteries that you can buy You can have a ton of fun out here with these types of batteries and just learn how to race Thank you so much Alex for teaching me and giving me all these really cool tips Maybe I'll apply them when I go to my first qualifier. Yeah, good luck. I think you're gonna do great, man Yeah, if you enjoyed this video, leave a thumbs up. Let us know you had a good time guys If you're new to this channel, we post this type of drone Content every single monday, so be sure you subscribe hit that notification bell so you know when we post these videos Thank you guys so much for watching. We'll catch you on the next one. Peace