The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League has gone from a bold experiment to a full-scale global showcase in just a year. The glow of Yas Marina Circuit now reflects a very modern kind of motorsport. What began as an audacious idea to pit driverless formula cars, drones, and off-road buggies against one another has quickly evolved into a high-budget engineering spectacle. But is AI racing truly ready to take over the human role?

Created by ASPIRE and ATRC, the league is intentionally designed to push autonomous systems into high-pressure, competitive scenarios. The core of the series is the “Car Race” category, where Dallara Super Formula SF-23 chassis are retrofitted with actuators, LIDAR, radar, and racks of computing hardware in place of a driver. These cars provide university teams and t

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