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		</div><p>A team led by a 15-year-old British pilot has won the first ever World Drone Prix in Dubai.</p>
<p>Luke Bannister, from Somerset, and his team – Tornado X-Blades Banni UK – won a 250,000 dollar (£174,000) purse, part of one million dollars (£695,000) in prizes handed out in the inaugural edition of this race.</p>
<p>It involved four pilots sitting down at a time in racing-style seats with their eyes covered by goggles which allowed them to watch a feed from a camera on their drone.#</p>
<p>The drones raced on a course behind them, zipping along a white track that occasionally reached up to pinch at the speeding aircraft for 12 laps with the skyscrapers of the Dubai Marina behind them.</p>
<p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1457819169-f3da3e11b1758fea53be28a6fdb5702d-600x385.jpg" rel="attachment wp-att-87237"><img src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1457819169-f3da3e11b1758fea53be28a6fdb5702d-600x385-300x193.jpg" alt="1457819169-f3da3e11b1758fea53be28a6fdb5702d-600x385" width="300" height="193" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-87237" /></a></p>
<p>The pilots wore white racing jumpsuits like in Formula One – but unlike in Formula One, racers have to worry about what is above and below them as they fly their drones.</p>
<p>Though Zachry Thayer, a 25-year-old pilot for Team Big Whoop of Fort Collins, Colorado said the onboard camera puts a racer into the action like nothing else.</p>
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<p>A cabinet-level minister in the United Arab Emirates also announced the start of the World Future Sports Games in December 2017.</p>
<p>“We are trying to bring the future closer to us,” said Mohammed al-Gergawi, the United Arab Emirates minister for cabinet affairs.</p>
<p>And it seems he’s succeeded – as the contests next year will include robotic swimming, running, wrestling and car racing, as well as drone flying.</p>
<p>We’re not sure whether to be excited or scared.</p>
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