This piece was originally published in The Autopian, a member-supported blog for car enthusiasts formed by ex-Jalopnik ...

Players are assigned a car and ... our hand at a race or three, and will be interested to see how the latency holds up from various parts of the world. We’ve seen other remote RC builds before ...

Look out: there’s a new fastest robot in the world ... 197.7 > 192.2 In the shadow of NASA’s iconic Space Shuttles, the race car flew down the 2.8-mile runway at record-breaking speeds ...

Meanwhile, if you’re more about speed than getting sideways, we’ve seen a homebrew RC car designed to that end as well. Video after the break.