Hurtling at speeds of up to 70mph inside the Miami Dolphins' stadium, racing drones battle it out for supremacy.
They duck and dive to make it through glowing green squares which mark out the race route, before speeding down into the concourse area.
It ends with a drone making it to the final checkpoint and landing safely on a mat - but not before one crashed into a concrete wall on the final tight turn and smashed into pieces.
This is first-person drone racing, where people fly their devices using video goggles connected by radio waves to the drone.
The Miami event was the Drone Racing League's (DRL) first event, and the next race will take place at an abandoned shopping mall in Los Angeles.
At previous racing events, devices have crashed when pilots have lost video connections.
The DRL's product director Ryan Gury said that this led the team to develop a radio communications system from scratch.
This allows the courses to be more complex, such as the one in Miami which saw the drones weave throughout the stadium.
The league builds each drone from scratch rather than letting the pilots build their own.
The DRL will have multiple heats per race, with the best times used to decide who makes it through to the knock-out semi-final races, and then finals.
Each event will award points to the winners, with the one with the most points over a season crowned overall winner.
Investors in the league include Matt Bellamy, the lead singer of the band Muse.
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