Rocket Racing League

ABOUT:

COMPANY HISTORY

The Company

Rocket Racing, Inc. is a sports & entertainment company. The Rocket Racing League® owned and run by Rocket Racing, Inc., is a governing body which was established to host rocket-powered airplane racing events that combine speed, technology, heroes and competition. This company draws from and builds on key elements from other successful business models such as IRL, Formula One and NASCAR.

The Rocket Racing League® is launching an entirely new breed of rocket-powered airborne race vehicles that lift spectator perceptions of excitement, awe, thrill and danger to entirely new levels. It is also focused on stimulating rapid world advances in safe, low-cost, reliable transportation to and from space. The time is upon us when the technology to create such advanced vehicle designs is within reach.

Founded in 2005 by two-time Indianapolis 500 winning team partner Granger Whitelaw and X PRIZE Chairman and CEO Peter H. Diamandis

The Vision

Instead of racing high performance cars around a ground track, the Rocket Racing League®'s three-dimensional track will host manned, rocket-powered airplanes racing on a three-dimensional track which reaches into the sky. Initially, the track is planned to extend one mile vertically, two miles down-track and one-half mile in the cross-plane direction. Virtual race tracks are displayed to both spectators and pilots. They are governed by a series of GPS designated waypoints which shape the closed circuit track. Spectators experience the close-in roar of rocket power as clusters of aircraft compete for the purse.

Later, the race zone is planned to contain a more expansive volume of airspace racing from City to City, Country to Country and eventually stretching to sub-orbital altitudes, and may ultimately evolve into a track that extends beyond that, anticipating a future where the race begins with a fleet of sponsor-branded spaceships on a spaceport tarmac in the New Mexico desert and other cities around the world..

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