The Beast: World's fastest remote control car

Imagine a tiny remote control car racing alongside a UK train - and winning.

A super-fast model car called The Beast has smashed a world record by travelling at 234.71 miles per hour.

That's almost twice as fast as the quickest passenger trains in the UK, which can reach about 125 miles per hour.

Not bad for something controlled with a handheld remote.

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The Beast was built by Stephen Wallis who is a motorcycle engineer from Rugby.

He says his love of fast vehicles began when he was a child.

"It goes back to when I was eight years old and got my first radio controlled car," Wallis said.

Building the record-breaking car took more than a year. The Beast is just over one metre long and many of its parts were made using 3D printing, where a machine builds objects layer by layer.

Instead of one engine, the car uses four powerful drone motors.

"The Beast is powered by four drone motors, bolted directly to the wheels which are in turn bolted directly to the vehicle's chassis," Stephen explained, adding that while the design did not prove too tricky, the electronics were a real challenge.

One of the biggest challenges was making sure the small car didn't take off at such high speed.

"Even if the front got raised up a little bit by a bump, I wanted to make sure there would still be some force pushing it down, to stop it catching the air and then turning into a plane," Stephen said.

After lots of testing, Stephen took The Beast to a speed event in North Wales, where it beat the previous record by 16 miles per hour.

He was awarded a Guinness World Record certificate and even got to choose the colours of a special cap awarded by Radio Operated Scale Speed Association (ROSSA).

"The Beast is a mix of white, neon green and pink, because they are visible at a distance," Stephen said.

"So my son suggested neon green with neon pink writing, but that was too garish [for a hat], so I went with neon green with black writing."