Drone racing to become new sport of ultra rich/privileged

Remote controlled air drone racing is set to become the next "big thing" in sport, after a "rich and privileged teenagers stamp their feet and cry for Daddy to sponsor them" initiative caused the founding of new global sports brand "DroneFlying".

DroneFlying is essentially super-car racing in the air; the flying of the craft is undertaken in similator booths that display the actual view around the drone as it flies along a route along the virtual airtrack. If any of that sounds confused or strange, that's completely understandable, says co-founder of the sport, Amy Brockow:

"We made it up in an afternoon. We didn't have anything better to do; I'd drowned the maid that morning, and Rickie had opened up like seven hundred boxes of matches and spread them over the floor to make a picture of my vagina. We were soooo bored. So we invented this sport, which is totally awesome and great and awesome."

The drones have been sourced directly from the US military, and contain all the cameras and other devices one would need to compete in the sport. Add in the almost arcade-similator type booths for controlling the aircraft, and with 5 other pilots you're ready to race. So how is the racing? We asked Formula 1 driving supremo David Coulthard what he thought. But he didn't answer us. Instaed we asked someone else who had a slightly Scottish accent:

"The flying is actually pretty great. There's this whoosh of air that comes from fans built into the false cockpit, which is totally bizarre because a real plane wouldn't be exposed like that. But anyway, although you can't strictly feel the G-Force that you would if you were actually flying these things, they keep popping up images on the video screen in front of you of things like your mum being threatened with a knife, or your favourite pet being strangled. Overall it's pretty much stomach in mouth all the way."

DroneFlying is set to hit our TV screens in the fall.