[L’industrie c’est fou] Homemade, this remote-controlled car reaches 152.5 km/h

2023-09-06 05:30:00

At the toy store, in front of the remote-controlled car section, your child, amazed, will surely ask you insistently for one of them. To make him forget this thought for sure, show him the video of the British James Whomsley “Breaking a world speed record with an RC car!”, published in July. We see the youtuber breaking the world record for the fastest jet-powered remote-controlled car with a vehicle he made himself. Next to this racing car which reached 152.5 km/h in July, radio-controlled cars and their top speed of 20 to 30 km/h pale in comparison…

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If the very specific category of the fastest remote-controlled jet car in the world did not appear in the famous Guinness Book of Records, James Whomsley had to exceed the speed of 150 km/h to be awarded the precious reward. For three months, the engineer-youtubeur built, tested and perfected his vehicle, says the Guinness World Records. Featuring a JetCat P220 engine, a strong aluminum chassis, a 3D-printed nose, and “plenty of electronic gadgets to make it all work,” the car hit nearly 70 mph on its premiere. exit.

A third explosive attempt

The youtuber knew she might be faster on a wider and longer track. So he went to the runway of an airport in Wales, just that! There, while the weather, rainy and windy, might have undermined this record attempt, the car reached 152.5 km/h. During the second test, it even drove up to 220.7 km/h but the record was not recorded because the front of the vehicle came off. James Whomsley forgot to bolt it to the rest of the car…

And, as misfortune never comes alone, the racing car crashed in a dramatic excursion caused by the wind at 226 km/h. The Briton was then on his third record attempt. “It really is the most heartbreaking accident I have ever experienced,” said James Whomsley in his video. But the manufacturer is not giving up and plans to try to break the record for the fastest electric remote-controlled car. This one is currently held by the American Nic Case who drove his vehicle at 325.12 km/h in 2014.

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