Versmissen wins Italy e-Drone Racing World Cup, tops standings

Swan Versmissen did more than win the Italy e-Drone Racing World Cup round. He turned a three-lap simulator race into a statement of control, finishing first with 49 World Cup points and moving to the top of the 2025 championship table, with Alikhan Nsanbaev close behind on 46. Chuan Sheng Shao stayed in the hunt in third with 43, while Elisey Timofeev and Yiran Sheng kept the pressure on the front group with 41 and 38 points.

That gap matters because this series is not decided by one hot run. FAI’s standings export, generated from the EreaDrone platform on June 4, 2026 at 9:45 am, shows a championship race built on consistency, not just podium finishes. Versmissen, the 2024 e-Drone Racing World Cup champion, already knows how to handle that grind. The Italy result only reinforces the sense that he remains the pilot everyone else has to chase when the standings tighten.

The Italy round was run on the EreaDrone simulator using a track designed for the World Drone Cup Italy 2025 in Albizzate, Italy, and each race went over three laps. That setup fits the sport FAI introduced in 2024 to bring drone racing into a more accessible format, with pilots competing from home on a game controller and a Windows computer with a stable internet connection. In a field like this, latency and composure matter as much as raw speed. One wobble can cost a place, and one place can swing the title picture.

The depth behind the top five underlined how broad the championship has become. Elmars Misevics finished sixth, Aoi Saito seventh, Ruixi Ma eighth, Daniyal Kazymov ninth and Ruijie Ma tenth, with Michel Hallet, Kaname Torii, Peilin Xu, Graulich Benoit, Christopher Young, Nicolas Garnier, Takafumi Matsudome, Tiago Yuji Sakihama, Gen Itami, Morten Siimar, Andrei Tsishyn, Tristan Twine and a long tail of others rounding out the standings. The table also carried pilots from France, Kazakhstan, China, Australia, Latvia, Japan, Brazil, Belgium, the United States, Poland, South Africa, Lithuania, Austria, the Philippines, Italy, Portugal, Norway and Singapore, a reminder that the simulator version of the sport now looks every bit like a global circuit.

FAI’s 2025 ranking documents already list Legacy, Italy and Spire as part of the season, so the championship has room to shift again. The overall winner earns the title of e-Drone Racing World Cup champion, with CIAM medals and diplomas going to the top three, and Versmissen’s Italy performance has put the rest of the field on notice.