R/C Rocket Car is world’s fastest

With speeds approaching 200 MPH, this Pocket Rocket may be the world's fastest R/C car

Fresh from our sister site Coolest-Gadgets comes the World’s Fastest Remote Controlled Car. Rocket Cars were really big in the 70s … cars rocketing across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah inching closer and closer to the land speed record and either coming up just short, crashing spectacularly, or smashing the record utterly. It was one of my favorite things to follow as a kid. I just wish I had the Picket Rocket when I was a kid to live the dream without risking the body.

The Pocket Rocket, designed by Nic Case, can fly down the road at 161-200 miles an hour. This is largely thanks to an 11horsepower motor. How can one control such the speed demon? Well, it helps to have a LOT or space, but the R/C controller has helicopter gyro to help with steering. And then there’s the need to use ultra powerful batteries. Most R/C cars have a battery life of just a few minutes before recharge (consumer grade) but no less than a half hour (hobby grade). The faster you go, the more battery life you eat up. So, going nearly faster than a speeding bullet is going to kill your average R/C battery slicker than snot. That’s why this puppy uses 12 hobby airplane cell type batteries connected in line for that extra amount of boost.

And with no brakes – you need plenty of run out room to decelerate by amping down the power to a stop since it uses oversized tires for better aerodynamic control.

Not cheap – at $4,000, but for setting land speed records, money is the game.

Hat Tip – Pop Sci via Coolest-Gadgets