“Actual racing with crewed racing, it looks like 2024, really, is when that’ll start to look possible … but we’re really focused on the safety elements before we go putting someone in it.”Īlauda, also founded by Matt Pearson, is the genius behind designing and producing the electric VTOL aircraft. For now, the cars are piloted remotely, while Matt hopes that pilots will be able to take over within the next 18 months. The aerial sporting event hopes to reinvent the wheel and provide a platform for the everyday use of flying cars in the future. Senna joined Airspeeder as a development pilot and ambassador and commented on the race alongside Nikki Shields, acclaimed motorsports broadcaster. The historic race garnered interest from motorsports legends worldwide, including Bruno Senna, nephew of the late Ayrton Senna, three-time Formula One world champion. Taking place in the remote nothingness of South Australia’s salt lakes, the world’s most elite names in aerial and motorsports took to a digital racetrack in the sky, competing for the prize of the ‘first flying car race winner’.

The event is the first of its kind in the world.

As we stand on the cusp of the 21 st century’s great leap forward in delivering on the promise of flying cars, the role competition plays is as important as ever,” said Pearson. “Every transformative moment in human transportation has been accelerated by motorsport. But that could change very soon as the founder Matt Pearson likens the event to formula one racing in the sense that every transportation advancement in history has stemmed from motorsports. Flying cars were predicted to be the norm by 2015 according to the hit 80’s movie Back To The Future © Universal Pictures Airspeeder becomes the world’s first flying car raceĪirspeeder might not be a household name yet. The series was a landmark moment in motorsports and the future of air travel. Seven years on from the date, a revolutionary series saw the first flying car race take place in Australia’s red outback.

Back To The Future 2 predicted flying cars on October 21st, 2015, also known as back to the future day. Robert Zemeckis’ 1989 box office movie was only seven years astray when predicting flying cars in humanity’s future. The festival state went back to the future when Airspeeder, an electric VTOL flying car racing series, hit Lake Lochiel in South Australia’s salt flats. From Pine Gap to the opal mining town built underground, if there’s something unusual happening down under, South Australia is a pretty good place to start. A lot of very futuristic and exotic things happen in Australia’s ‘barren’ outback.

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