MultiGP crowns first European drone racing champion in Germany

Aichtal did more than host a race. It gave European FPV a real measuring stick, as 86 pilots from 18 countries showed up at Sportplatz SV07 Aich for MultiGP’s first official European Championship and turned the weekend into a continent-wide proving ground.

That scale matters because this was not an open jam or a friendly meet-up dressed up as a title event. MultiGP built the field around merit, planning 96 starting places with 64 reserved from the Global Qualifier ranking and 32 sold first-come, first-served, but only after pilots had recorded at least one Global Qualifier time. The result was a championship that looked and felt earned before a single gate was flown. It also gave Europe the kind of bracket structure the sport has needed: six double-elimination mains, with the A Main set aside for the top 16 seeds and a ladder that ran all the way down to the F Main.

The raw pace backed up the format. Minjae topped qualifying with a 49.556 lap, a number that immediately separated him from the field. Pawelos followed at 52.992, Yuki posted 53.132, and the board kept getting deeper from there with Marv of Liechtenstein at 53.959, Killian Rousseau of France at 54.885, NZMFPV from Turkey at 55.245, and Jbox as the lone American in the field at 57.323. Those times told the story better than any promo ever could: this was not a regional exhibition, but a legitimate international grid with speed at the top and pressure everywhere else.

The event’s delivery matched its ambition. Aircrasher handled race control with surgical calm as the organizing Tier 1 MultiGP chapter, Bavarian Multirotor helped support the operation, and Matt Andrews carried an eight-hour livestream that kept the race moving without losing momentum. TBone FPV’s course added the final layer, a track described as fast, flowing and technical enough that pure throttle was not enough to survive the weekend.

MultiGP has long called itself the world’s largest drone racing league and FPV community, with more than 30,000 registered pilots and 500 active chapters worldwide. Aichtal gave that claim a European anchor. With its 18-country field, double-elimination structure and polished broadcast, the first European Championship did not just crown a winner’s weekend; it set a standard for what continental drone racing can look like from here, with Tulsa, Oklahoma waiting as the next major chapter.