It’s one of the most exhilarating sports out there, but now car racing is about to be taken to the next level, thanks to Alauda’s new flying race car.
The tech firm is developing a new racing league called Airspeeder, in which elite pilots will race against each other in tiny flying cars.
Yesterday, Alauda revealed its flying race car, called the MK4, at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Future Lab.
But while Alauda claims that the cars could be ready to fly next year, a test flight at the iconic event suggested that there’s a lot of work to be done before then.
During the test flight, a slightly smaller prototype of the flying race car took to the skies in front of select media (including Mirror Online), at the Goodwood Aerodrome.
The vehicle was unmanned, and was initially controlled by one of the Alauda team.
However, within seconds the flying car spun out of control, quickly rising high up into the sky, much to the Alauda team’s dismay.
As we were quickly ushered inside, we could see the flying car rising higher and higher, becoming a mere speck in the sky.
A few minutes later, the vehicle came crashing back to Earth – thankfully into an empty field.
While the demonstration wasn’t exactly impressive, Matt Pearson, founder of Alauda, managed to see the funny side of it.
Speaking at the event, he said: “We didn’t promise a soft landing! That’s the thing with early technology, these things happen.”
Alauda plans to launch the Airspeed racing league in 2020 – let's hope the flying cars are safer by then!
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