The last time we looked in on jet suit company Gravity Industries, the UK's Royal Marines were using their jet suits to board a ship. More recently the company made the news for a non-military happening: They've held their inaugural Jet Suit Race in Dubai, hoping to generate some F1-levels of excitement.

For safety reasons, the race was held over water. (Fortunately for the host, that means that rather than building an asphalt track, you just have to invest in a few floating pylons.) Each competitor wears seven pieces of jet-thrust-providing Gravity Industries kit--two jets on each arm, three on their back--that cumulatively put out over 1,000 horsepower. While there is no wall for the racers to crash into, the real danger is of colliding with a fellow racer who's also wearing a 75-pound suit and a five-gallon gasoline tank.

The full video is below, but if you want to skip the five qualifying heats and see the final, skip forward to 33:35. (Also, at 15:05, you can see one unlucky racer going into the drink. He's swiftly rescued and was unharmed.)

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Want to compete? You'll first need to cough up £380,000 (USD $480,000) for a suit.