MultiGP lists July 25 regional qualifier stops in Minnesota and Wisconsin
July 25 put Maplewood and Salem Lakes on MultiGP’s ladder, with points and wildcards still in play on the road to the Regional Final and Champs.
MultiGP’s regional schedule put two U.S. qualifier stops on July 25, with Mighty Drones hosting an 8:00 a.m. race in Maplewood, Minnesota, and ChicagolandFPV running a 10:00 a.m. stop in Salem Lakes, Wisconsin. For pilots working the 2026 pathway, those dates were not just calendar entries: the Regional Series is built to hand out regional series points and wildcards that feed into the Regional Final and, eventually, MultiGP Champs.
The schedule page was built like a race-day tool. Each row paired the date and time with the location, country, host chapter and a direct race link, giving pilots a straight shot from the calendar to the event page. MultiGP describes the Regional Series as open to pilots worldwide, powered by local chapters, and a new international circuit designed to grow the sport from the ground up.
That structure is what gives a stop like Maplewood or Salem Lakes real weight. In drone racing, a strong finish at a chapter-hosted qualifier can translate into points and wildcard access, and those are the pieces that move a pilot up the ladder toward the Regional Final and MultiGP Champs. The timing stood out too: a MultiGP video description for the 2026 qualifiers said the run was March 1 through July 15, which made the July 25 entries notable later additions on the Global Qualifier schedule.
The broader championship path was already set in motion earlier in the year. On March 23, Joe Scully unveiled the official 2026 Global Qualifier track after MultiGP’s track design contest, tying the regional circuit to the larger season-end championship structure. MultiGP’s Global Qualifier and championship pages connect that ladder directly to the league’s biggest events, so the Minnesota and Wisconsin stops sat inside a much larger competitive map.
The local chapters behind those dates matter as much as the dates themselves. Mighty Drones identifies itself as a MultiGP FPV racing chapter based in the Twin Cities area, and the Academy of Model Aeronautics lists its club locations at Fitness Crossroads and Ramsey County Fairgrounds. In Wisconsin, the racing scene has its own depth, with Wisconsin Drone Racing promoting indoor competition in Milwaukee and Chicago’s drone-racing culture already established in a 2017 Chicago Tribune feature. For pilots chasing the 2026 ladder, the value of those July 25 stops was simple: every sanctioned start could move them closer to the next rung.
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