Mexico City MultiGP qualifier reveals 12-pilot field for global ladder

ITTLA in Mexico City gave MultiGP’s qualifying system a real address and a real cast list. The 2026 MultiGP Global Qualifier / XRT Crazy Racing @ITTLA was listed for May 16, 2026, and the live GQ Results table showed 12 pilots already entered, turning a local track into an immediate stop on the road to the championship.

That field was not a one-club turnout. The entry board named Derek Carrillo Ortega, Jorge Meza, Saul Resendiz, Yael Gonzalez, Rodrigo Cardenas, Rafael Guzman, Oscar Viveros, Cesar Bonavides-Martinez, Fabricio Gomez, Guillermo Rodríguez, Mario Sánchez and Alejandro Reyes. For a qualifier of this size, every slot matters: it is the kind of roster that tells you who showed up to race for more than a regional result.

The most telling detail was not who had won, because the results columns were still marked with dashes. It was that the board was live at all. The field was in place, the names were public, and the competition data was still being built out, which is exactly what makes a qualifier like this feel immediate. A 12-pilot race does not bury the pathway in abstraction; it puts the ladder in front of every pilot on the site.

That ladder is the point. MultiGP says its Global Qualifier season runs from March 27, 2026, and any Tier 3, Tier 2 or Tier 1 chapter can host a designated number of official qualifier races on the year’s track. The league says its championship series is open to all countries, the community votes on the official Global Qualifier track design each year, and more than 1,000 pilots typically try to qualify through Global Qualifier participation.

That is why Mexico City matters now. MultiGP says it has more than 30,000 registered pilots and 500 active chapters worldwide, so a qualifier at ITTLA is not a small-circuit curiosity. It is part of a system built to sort the best from a global pool, and a 12-pilot field in Mexico City becomes a practical checkpoint for Latin American racers trying to turn strong laps into wider relevance.

The schedule has already put Mexico City, CDMX and Crazy Racing on the 2026 map. ITTLA gave the stop a venue, the entry board gave it a field and the Global Qualifier format gave it stakes. That is how a local race becomes part of the world’s drone-racing ladder.