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2027 Season Calendar — TBD
The 2027 season calendar is to be determined. Stay tuned for updates on cities, dates, and continents.
Welcome to the Future of Racing
Project
Maximum Boost
Accelerating flying car transportation by racing in the fastest, lowest cost and best way before Trump leaves office and the accelerator times out 1/20/2029.
The Vision
Maximum Everything
X1 Racing™ is accelerating flying car transportation by racing in the fastest, lowest cost and best way — before Trump leaves office and the accelerator times out. Professional motorsports teams build and compete in high-tech, high-speed, high-stakes airborne races.
Maximum Freedom
A side-by-side two-seat flying car in every driveway. Point-to-point, door-to-door, with no time lost in traffic. Your driver's license is the only license you need — the SI (Super Intelligence) is the co-pilot.
Maximum Safety
The most dangerous sounding motorsport is also the most safe. The race track proves personal air mobility to be safer than walking. Safer than driving. Safer than flying today. The SI boost puts the safest pilot on Earth in every seat — by every licensed driver in America.
Maximum Everything
High-tech, high-speed, high-stakes airborne racing — built to make the flying car real. Fear is no factor. Age is no limit. Winning the mindshare race at TikTok speed.
Maximum Industry
$11 billion federal program. $2.2 billion up front, $8.8 billion matched dollar-for-dollar by corporate racing sponsorship. $19.8 billion in total scope. Up to 17 teams. One national mission.
Maximum Technology
Flying cars require maximum power, maximum energy density, maximum reliability. Competition drives innovation beyond antique crank and rod architecture to a new era of efficiency. Forged on the race course, the lessons learned flow to OEMs, transportation, the power grid and ultimately your garage.
Maximum Acceleration
We race; the flying car arrives in two years, not fifty. No new law required. FAA MOSAIC + the Department of War Warfighting Acquisition System + Executive Order 14255 — the regulatory on-ramp already exists.
Maximum Competition
Remote human control from the X1Racing Game, boosted by on-vehicle SI, sent to real flying cars. Sim qualifiers earn live seats. There are no age limits. The game is the skill filter.
Maximum Sport
The X1 Cup. Named for the first aircraft to break the sound barrier. Awarded to the team that completes the championship course, including its Danger Zones, with the best combined performance over a year of competition.
Maximum ROI
Danger Zones deliver the collisions fans can't look away from. Maximum sponsor value by construction. Legacy series race the clock; X1 races TikTok. The highest-ROI public-private infrastructure play since the Interstate Highway System — with the federal government taking a 10% non-voting equity stake in X1 Racing alongside its catalytic investment.
Innovation
Maximum Technology
The race is the lab
Fusing Gaming and Reality enters motorsport into a new dimension. No longer is safety a tradeoff with performance. Physics + SI + Human control become the limit.
Remote human control from the X1Racing Game is sent to real flying cars — boosted by on-vehicle SI, governed by race-grade physics, and flown unmanned on the course. For the first time, fear is no factor. Age is no barrier. The game is the skill filter.
Up to seventeen teams, fielding up to fifty instrumented aircraft, compete to push hybrid-electric power plants past every limit engineering has accepted. Every race captures the failure modes, edge cases, and recovery behaviors that no laboratory program has ever been allowed to generate — at public scale, under adversarial pressure, with every frame of telemetry independently witnessed.
The technology forged on the X1 grid does not stay on the track. The same SI, airframe, and powerplant technology that wins races is proven on the grid and transferred to industry, flying the side-by-side two-seat flying car in the driveway. Racing is not the destination. Racing is the proof.
Read: The Strategic Argument for X1 Hybrid Power →
200+
MPH Top Speed
SI
Boosted Control
1,500
HP Continuous
0
Fear Factor
Physics EngineACTIVE
SI Boost LayerLIVE
Remote Pilot InterfaceONLINE
Danger Zone LoggingENGAGED
Maximum Engagement
The X1 Game
Every X1 aircraft is instrumented, and the X1 Game is its digital twin. Live race data drives a virtual copy of the course, so fans sit in the same seat as their favorite driver and see what they see as it happens. Replay any moment from any angle, with coverage tuned to your preferences. Between race weekends, fly the same aircraft on the same courses and compete in virtualized qualifiers.
First Person Interface
Remote first-person view into real-world vehicles
Virtual Qualifiers
Top performers earn a chance to compete in real-world competitions
Race From Home
Compete in real-world real-time competition from anywhere
No Limits
Age is no limit. Fear is no factor. Skill is everything.
The Ultimate Prize
The X1 Cup
The Overall Series Champion will be awarded the X1 Cup, in honor of the first aircraft to break the sound barrier.
This prestigious trophy represents the pinnacle of airborne racing achievement, honoring the spirit of courage, innovation, and the relentless pursuit of pushing beyond human limits.
1947
Sound Barrier Broken
Mach 1
Historic Speed
Latest Updates
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PressOct 15, 2026
Why John McAlpine Believes Tesla Roadster Reveal Could Open the Door to a New Era of Flying-Car Racing
YourNews · Oct 15, 2026
PressJune 11, 2026
YourNews Exclusive: Inside John McAlpine’s High‑Stakes Flying‑Car Race to Transform America’s Future
YourNews · June 11, 2026
TechnologyFeb 2026
Opposed Twin Free Piston Linear Generator
Power plant prototypes poised to break efficiency and power density records.
PartnershipJan 2026
Accepting Applications for Title Sponsorship
X1 Racing is now accepting applications from partners looking to become the official title sponsor.
Sponsors and Future Partners