Città di Castello to host glowing night drone racing championship round
LED-lit FPV drones turned Bernicchi into a night arena, with Open and 3-inch pilots racing for points in CSI's third national round.
Colored LED drones cut through the darkness at Stadio Corrado Bernicchi as CSI Drone Racing ran its third national round in Città di Castello, a two-day stop built around Open and 3-inch racing and around points that counted in both the individual and team standings. The Saturday night heat turned the stadium into a lighted circuit, and the format gave the race a sharper edge than a standard daytime meet.
The Città di Castello stop was listed as Gara #3 for the Open category, and the schedule packed in a long stretch of competition: Saturday from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For the special night heat, organizers set the same technical parameters for every pilot, stripping away equipment advantages and putting the focus on line choice, throttle control and nerve under lights.
That mattered because the round sat deep in the 2026 CSI championship calendar, after visits to Torino and Valle d’Aosta and before the finale in Fano on July 18-19. CSI Drone Racing described the season as its third edition, built across three physical national rounds plus a final, with an e-sports and simulator pathway folded in for newcomers. In that structure, Città di Castello was not just another stop; it carried real weight in a points race that could still shape the season’s finish.
The event also showed how firmly Bernicchi had replaced Petrelle as the area’s drone-racing home. City programming had already folded the meet into Estate in città 2026, the municipality’s summer slate of nearly 100 events over four months, and the June 11 Notte dello Sport drew more than 35 sports associations. CSI, the Centro Sportivo Italiano behind the championship, is a CONI-recognized body founded in 1944 that says it has more than 12,500 affiliated ASD/SSD clubs and more than 1.5 million members. In Città di Castello, that institutional reach met a format built for spectacle, with the glow of the night race carrying the same championship pressure as any daylight heat.
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