U.S. Drone Racing Captain Alex Vanover Makes Finals for Level One: WATCH

THE FUTURE is now folks. United States team captain, and regulation hottie, Alex Vanover is now set to win the championship in Drone Racing for the second year in a row.

FPV drone racing is a sport type where participants control “drones”, equipped with cameras while wearing head-mounted displays showing the live stream camera feed from the drones. Similar to full size air racing the goal is to complete a set course as quickly as possible.

This Sunday August 11th, the first episode of @DroneRaceLeague season 4 airs on NBC and Twitter 2pm EST! I’m ready to show everyone what I got.

According to Hypebeast, “Drone Racing League‘s new season premieres on NBC next week, and as such, the league has made the DRL Racer4 drone in its new season available for pre-order. The new DRL Racer4 Street is a “true, field-ready version of the DRL Racer4 drone” that possesses 1,000 LED lights, a carbon-fiber canopy, and the ability to go from zero to 90mph in under a second.”

It has been launched as a Kickstarter project and will have a revamped electronics system that supports plug-and-play parts for easy fixes, without compromising the machine’s power configuration. “After many (many) requests to purchase a Racer3, we made sure to answer the demand with the ‘Street Version’ of our next-generation drone,” the project’s description reads.

The DRL Racer4 drone is available in the U.S. only, and customers must pledge $599 USD to earn the drone as a reward on Kickstarter.

In other tech news, US federal agencies are now banned from buying Huawei tech.