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Aruban Drone Pilot Wins Champions League with his Team

ORANJESTAD - IRC Racing several teams. He travelled
is a drone FPV Racing Team around the world, practic-
powered by ImmersionRC ing his sport in this futuristic
and Aruban Vince Irie is phenomenon. The sport is
part of that team. During growing quickly in popular-
the recent Drone Cham- ity and Vince his skills were
pions League in Romania shown in the main sport
the team won first price. channels on television like
The event was spectacular Eurosport, Fox Sport and
and drew a lot of attention YouTube channel Twitch.
worldwide. The races in Romania
took place in an old mine,
Vince was immediately called Sardina Turna, situ-
hooked on the sport when ated 150 meter above the
he experienced his first ground. The first day Vince
‘flight’ and since then be- and his team won second
came a world known drone place, but the second day
pilot, popular among the –with a more difficult track-

made it to the overall first
place. The team was out-
rageous and Aruba proud
to have an ambassador
in an innovative sport like
drone racing.q