Ben Lindbergh does not have a driver’s license and is not yet a professional drone racer. But with the help of his video game skills, he tested his pilot abilities on a real-life drone simulator, where he went through all three levels of simulator difficulty. Let’s just say things did not go well when it came to “expert” mode.

Ben Lindbergh

Ben is a writer, podcaster, and editor who covers culture and sports. He hosts ‘Effectively Wild’ at FanGraphs and previously wrote for FiveThirtyEight and Grantland, served as editor-in-chief of Baseball Prospectus, and authored ‘The MVP Machine’ and ‘The Only Rule Is It Has to Work.’