Street League calendar packs April and May with grassroots FPV racing

The biggest story in Street League’s April calendar is not the races that stayed put, but the marquee stop that did not. Salt Lake City’s SLC Throwdown 2026, including the Unlimited Class and SL National 2, was marked postponed, a setback that pushes the headline heat out of the spotlight and leaves local pilots, rising amateurs and event hosts to absorb the impact.

Street League said it could not find a venue it was happy with at that scale, so the league is downgrading the event to a smaller regional while it looks for larger sites in the future. That matters because the postponed stop was supposed to be one of the cleaner showcases of what Street League wants to sell: a standardized national race weekend, with the Season V National set for a single day and all Spec rules strictly enforced. Instead, the calendar now shows a more practical truth about FPV racing’s growth. The sport is being carried by the places that can host it now, not just the big weekend it hopes to build later.

That shift gives the rest of April and early May more weight. The calendar still lists CCFPV 2026 Race #6 at Zero Traction on April 29, followed by a run of smaller but steady stops that keep the pipeline moving: WareHouse Bash on May 4, Alley Whoop on May 6, Monthly WHOOPS at Igniter on May 11, CCFPV 2026 Race #7 at Zero Traction on May 12, Fast Friends Duct Pond on May 15 and a BDR pro spec and Street League kickoff race on May 19. In Lebanon, Oregon, April 25 alone carried multiple Dronage races, including the 5-inch Open Race 2, Street League Race 2, Freedom Spec race 2 and Sub 250 Race 3.

That is the real action in April. The postponed Salt Lake City headline stop removes the sport’s biggest visibility play, but the calendar still shows the grassroots engine humming through indoor whoop nights, sub-250 classes and local chapter races in Greenwood, Indiana, Lebanon, Oregon, Austin, Texas and beyond. Street League says it is building a vibrant community centered on drone racing and advancing drone technology, and the calendar shows how that community is actually stitched together, one venue at a time.

The rules page also underlines the difference between the national showpiece and the local grind. The Unlimited Class allows wide drone variation, with only safety concerns giving the race director room to ban a machine, while the spec side leans on tight structure, including boost mode with three boosts per battery, each lasting five seconds with 1k initial RPM on activation. That mix of freedom and standardization is what keeps the scene broad enough for local pilots and serious enough for contenders chasing recognition.