FPV drone chases drifting cars around a racetrack

Oct 30, 2026 Last reply: 13 hours ago 4 Replies
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When this setup is working, it is chasing drift cars around an asphalt racetrack from the air, throwing in aggressive dives, tight proximity tracking and rolls while the automobiles hold long, smoky slides. A white Nissan 350Z and a purple BMW 3 Series coupe are among the vehicles on track. The footage spans broad daylight, sunset and night sessions under floodlights.



The kit behind it is a nazgulXL5 frame on 2207 1800kv motors with a speedybee stack. For video, a caddx vista vtx pairs with a polar starlight camera, and a gopro rides at roughly 10 degrees of tilt. That shallow tilt looks like a smart call to me, since it keeps the cars and the horizon framed together through the slides.



On the editing side, the maker cut it all in davinci resolve using slide and blur dissolve transitions. Those choices give the chase sequences a smooth rhythm, and holding focus on a single car through a full drift takes real stick control.



The one open point for me is the cut craft: some of the moments where cars fly into a transition do not, to my eye, reach pro polish yet. Whether that gets refined in a future edit is the question I would most like answered.


How does the maker deal with exposure once the sun goes down? Flying close to cars under floodlights must make the image swing between a dark background and bright bodywork, and I am curious whether the starlight camera and the vista handle that on their own or if there is manual work during the night passes.

The 10 degree gopro tilt is the choice that stands out for me. A shallow angle like that keeps the horizon in frame while the drone is diving, which sells the speed of the drifts far better than a steep nose down view would. The tradeoff is less forward visibility in the shot when the drone pitches hard.

A variation worth trying: edit one whole sequence using only the blur dissolve instead of mixing slide and blur dissolve cuts. Sticking to a single transition style per sequence would give each chase its own character, and it would also address the feeling that the car into transition moments are uneven.

The maker has not said anything about exposure handling or night settings, so there is nothing confirmed there. What is known on the camera side is that a caddx vista vtx runs with a polar starlight camera, and the gopro sits at around 10 degrees, but no settings or manual exposure work have been mentioned.

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