Airspeeder secures broadcast deal with Fox Sports Australia to show thrill of flying car racing

Air­speed­er has announced a ground­break­ing two-year broad­cast con­tent deal with Fox Sports Aus­tralia that will bring exclu­sive, cut­ting-edge fly­ing car rac­ing con­tent to audi­ences across Aus­tralia

The new pro­gram­ming line­up fea­tures high­lights from the first Air­speed­er EXA Series Race in South Aus­tralia, a ‘Find­ing Extreme Pilots Series’ and ‘How to Build a Fly­ing Car’ series look­ing at how these eVTOL vehi­cles are built, devised for Australia’s more estab­lished motor­sport tech­nol­o­gy fans.

The 30-minute shows tar­get a tech­nol­o­gy, sci-fi and elec­tric motor­sport aware audi­ence with a pas­sion for futur­ism and a deep love of behind-the-scenes jeop­ardy.

Stephen Sid­lo, Head of Media at Air­speed­er, said: “Air­speed­er is at the fore­front of fly­ing car tech­nol­o­gy and we are excit­ed to be work­ing with Fox Sports Aus­tralia to bring the thrill of fly­ing far rac­ing to audi­ences across our home coun­try of Aus­tralia.

“This two year con­tent part­ner­ship will give fans an unpar­al­leled look into the future of motor­sport and the tech­nol­o­gy that bridges futur­ism and real-world rac­ing.”

Addi­tion­al­ly, the inau­gur­al 2022 sea­son race of the pio­neer­ing Air­speed­er EXA rac­ing series was also cap­tured by sports pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny Auro­ra Media World­wide, who exec­u­tive pro­duced a Road to Fly­ing Car Rac­ing doc­u­men­tary, to give audi­ences a behind-the-scenes look at the sea­son, and the advanced air mobil­i­ty tech­nol­o­gy that under­pinned it.

The shows are a joint cre­at­ed by the in-house team at Air­speed­er and sup­port­ed by Auro­ra Media World­wide and will show­case the lat­est in fly­ing car tech­nol­o­gy and give view­ers an inside look at the pilots, teams, and tech­nol­o­gy that make this cut­ting-edge sport pos­si­ble.

With exclu­sive access to Air­speed­er and Alau­da Aero­nau­tics cut­ting-edge rac­ing series, Fox Sports Aus­tralia will be the go-to des­ti­na­tion for fans look­ing to expe­ri­ence the future of motor­sports.

Beyond mak­ing motor­sport his­to­ry, Alau­da Aero­nau­tics, the tech­ni­cal team and man­u­fac­tur­er of the pio­neer­ing Speed­ers that com­pete in EXA and Air­speed­er races has cre­at­ed an engi­neer­ing and dig­i­tal ecosys­tem for elec­tric fly­ing car (eVTOL) rac­ing.

This is an extra­or­di­nary tech­ni­cal accom­plish­ment deliv­ered by a team drawn from some of the most cel­e­brat­ed names in For­mu­la 1, motor­sport and advanced aero­space devel­op­ment.

To sup­port this his­toric first race, they built race con­trol sta­tions, a pilot con­trol sta­tion, a pri­vate 5G net­work, Aug­ment­ed Real­i­ty (AR) Sky Tracks, an engi­neer­ing and team con­trol sta­tion, akin to that seen in elite tra­di­tion­al motor rac­ing.

In addi­tion they had to devel­op race rules and a full suite of safe­ty, logis­tics and race man­age­ment pro­to­cols. In turn, the tech­nol­o­gy used in rac­ing is a snap­shot of what our cities will be using in the next decade to under­pin the emer­gence of elec­tric fly­ing cars as a viable means of pas­sen­ger trans­port.