MultiGP
| Sport | Drone racing |
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| Category | Air sports |
| Jurisdiction | International |
| Founded | 2015 |
| Headquarters | Palm Bay, Florida |
| President | Todd Wahl 3.0 |
| Chief Exec | Chris Thomas |
| Vice president | David Roberts |
| Other key staff |
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| Official website | |
| www |
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MultiGP is an American owned and operated business that governs and manages a radio-controlled drone racing league with over 22,000 members and 600 chapters worldwide.
MultiGP governs and sanctions drone racing events across the US, provides turn-key race production services, and works with grassroots groups to grow the sport of drone racing.
Founded by Chris Thomas in February 2015, this drone racing league has been involved in the organization and management of over 2500 races worldwide and created the first national (United States of America) performance-based drone racing championship. This Championship held stringent qualification requirements for entry, not just the price of admission.
MultiGP offices are located in Palm Bay, Florida.
MultiGP is a Special Interest Group (SIG) with The Academy of Model Aeronautics (AMA) and has agreed to manage the communications, development, competition, and continued safety efforts of the FPV racing community within the AMA.
In January 2015 Chris Thomas became involved with his local flying club, Brevard Multirotor. This group of FPV enthusiasts was holding events and races in the Brevard County region of Florida. At the time there was a need for someone to step in and help the pilots manage video frequencies and better organize the events in the area. Chris enthusiastically took the reigns! He created a spreadsheet and some frequency cards that helped managed the races. In the last weeks of February 2015 MultiGP was created and started aiding local races in the Central Florida area. The first major event MultiGP assisted with was the CFL FPV event held in Leesburg, FL the last weekend in March 2015.
MultiGP developed a web-based application that would soon replace the spreadsheet and frequency cards. RaceSync is the proprietary software that assigns racing slots and video frequencies in real time, and allows pilots to use their smartphones to check-in when they arrive for a race and assign them a race slot and optimum video frequency that will not interfere with the other pilots in the race.
In March 2016 the software LapSync was created by James Elkins. LapSync is the timing system component of MultiGP and communicates with RaceSync. LapSync currently works with both Trackmate and I-Lap infrared transponder systems. In a 90-day period at the end of 2016 Lapsync had counted 15,307 laps for MultiGP. In August of 2017, LiveTime FPV (livetimescoring.com) run by Cory Kroll Joined MultiGP as Official Timing Partner for the MultiGP league. LiveTime FPV will be working closely with MultiGP to assist chapter organizers in race data collection, live event streaming, and real-time race scoring. They will be improving the MultiGP Leaderboard and Application Programming Interface (API) systems to make MultiGP status tracking and record keeping more streamlined and easier to access. As a pilot or a chapter organizer this means easier access to your stats. Also in August of 2017, James Elkins of LapSync joined in to help LiveTime FPV with MultiGP to dominate the Drone Racing sport.
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