Does the nascent industry of drone racing have the essential ingredients to fly higher than eSports in the competitive, entertainment, and gambling stakes?

I was a poor kid.

Video games were like gold dust. I played football in my hall using rolled up socks as the ball. I played balloon tennis using the dining room chairs as a net.

One of the most exciting games was ‘stick racing’. The lads and I would find a stick, drop it over the edge of a bridge, and then leg it to the other side of the bridge to see which stick reached our established finishing line first. We would bet on the outcome. Our dinner money was capital.