All impressive figures, and all of them would lose in a top-speed race to this remote ... He's held and broken the past few Guinness World Records for R/C cars, hitting 161.76 in 2008 and 171. ...

Car records are cool. But some records are just more cool than others, even though they hardly make any sense.

In the spirit of speed, [James Whomsley] strapped a jet turbine engine to an RC car, and learned some hard lessons along the way. The car started as a four-wheel drive electric race car ...