Tom Mundy wins Birmingham Tiny Whoopers Advanced class podium

Tom Mundy took the Advanced class at BIRD 2026, but the real story was how little separated the front runners: Kris Smith was second, Toby Hughes third and Samuele Felotti fourth in a field that rewarded clean laps as much as outright pace. In indoor Tiny Whoop racing, where one bobble or missed apex can flip the order in a heartbeat, Mundy separated himself by staying cleaner through the course and keeping the pressure on the rest of the podium.

BIRD stands for Birmingham International Race Days, and BIRD 2026 was the sixth annual Tiny Whoop race staged by Birmingham Tiny Whoopers on Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2026 in Birmingham, UK. The official Finals Day video followed on Feb. 2, and the club continues to frame BIRD as its premier event of the year. Its own profile describes Birmingham Tiny Whoopers as an FPV drone racing club in Birmingham where aircraft of 85mm or less are welcome, with annual membership listed at £20.

The podium matters because it came in the Advanced class, the bracket where the sharpest racecraft usually decides results. Mundy was last year’s champion, and that context makes this win more than a routine first place: he held off a deeper field and preserved his place at the top even as the standard around him rose. A Project Mockingbird post has already shown how unforgiving the discipline can be, noting that Mundy once set the fastest lap time in a previous Tiny Whoop International Open and still finished third overall. At BIRD 2026, the lesson was the same, only this time the consistency converted into the win.

That is also why the result carries weight inside the wider micro-racing scene. The BIRD sponsor page says the meeting has “doubled in size every year,” growing from “a few blokes flying in a pub” into an international event, while the 2025 edition was billed as “The First European Official Tiny Whoop Event” and described the BIRD title as being in British hands. RadioMaster RC went even further, calling BIRD 2026 the place where “the world’s best Tiny Whoop pilots descended on Birmingham, UK.”

Seen against that backdrop, the finishing order in the Advanced class reads like a snapshot of the current hierarchy. Mundy is still the pilot to beat, Smith and Hughes are close enough to punish any mistake, and Felotti’s fourth-place finish confirms how hard it is to survive at the sharp end when every gate and every correction matters.