Canberra CMRC Meet 5 shapes 2026 drone racing title races
Davey FPV held a combined 350-point lead across two tables as 32 pilots raced in Canberra’s AU Regional Qualifier, raising the stakes for the 2026 title fight.
The most striking number in Canberra was 350. Davey FPV sat atop Micro-A with 150 points and Pro Spec with 200, a double lead that made Meet 5 at Weston Creek look less like a routine club race and more like a season-defining pressure test.
Canberra Multirotor Racing Club’s Racing Series Meet 5, held Saturday, May 16, at Weston Archery Club on Dixon Dr and Streeton Drive, capped entries at 32 pilots and ran from about 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The schedule packed in setup, qualifying, lunch, Pro Spec finals and a 1v1 battle, then Open Class finals, giving the meet more competitive layers than a single-class local event. CMRC’s format used two fastest consecutive laps in qualifying, up to eight qualifying rounds, and finals decided by the best three placings out of four races.
That structure mattered because the 2026 open-class season is a 10-event championship, and CMRC drops the worst two results when the standings are finalized. In a year like that, every final placement can move a pilot up or down the table, especially when the club is also running a separate Pro Spec ladder with a Top 16, seven-race finals format and a 1v1 battle component. Meet 5 therefore carried consequences well beyond one afternoon in Canberra.
The standings made the race pressure concrete. In Micro-B, Magic Soup led on 150 points, with Djay second on 85 and Wedge FPV third on 77. In Micro-A, Davey FPV’s 150 points were followed by BEAR on 118 and Carnage on 102. Pro Spec was even more striking at the top, where Davey FPV’s 200 points put a target on the leader and turned every mistake into a possible title swing. For Canberra’s fastest pilots, the path to a championship was already visible, and Meet 5 was one of the checkpoints that could redraw it.
The bigger significance reached beyond CMRC’s own ladder. MultiGP’s 2026 Regional Series is built to grow drone racing through local groups and communities, with a qualifier window from March 1 to July 15 and wildcard invitations waiting for regional winners. That turned Canberra’s AU Regional Qualifier into a direct bridge from a club circuit to a wider international pathway.
CMRC’s place in that ecosystem gives the result extra weight. The club calls itself the ACT’s dedicated FPV drone racing club and Canberra’s first dedicated FPV multirotor club, with links to AUFPV, the Model Aeronautical Association of Australia and the ACT Aeromodellers Association. With membership benefits such as insurance and discounted entry fees, plus a free club shirt for June early sign-ups, CMRC has built a durable race program rather than a one-off showcase. Recent turnouts of 28 pilots for Racing Series Meet 4 and 23 pilots for Micro Series Meet 4 showed the calendar already had momentum. Meet 5 pushed that momentum into title-race territory.
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