SALT LAKE CITY — Broc Champlin has been racing remote-controlled model cars since he was 13. "As a kid, I rode dirt bikes my father got hurt and it kind of just scared my family away from it," ...

3:53 p.m. July 7, 2025: An earlier version of this article said that Ryan Cavalieri’s car was nitrogen gas-powered. The car is powered by nitromethane, a nitrogen compound, and methanol. The neon ...

Nissan’s little electric racer is starting to look more interesting than ever, as a video showing the LEAF Nismo RS testing on the Sodegaura Forest Raceway this weekend was recently been release.

You may look at the Nissan Leaf and think "green urban runabout," but the automaker's NISMO racing specialists saw serious race potential in the electric car. Witness, then, the all-new – and ...

Flathead RC founder Angus Matheson shows off the interior workings of one of his vehicles. Flathead RC group founders, from left, Eric Pieffer, Angus Matheson, Brandon Hamburg and Cory Hutchison show ...

SUMTER, S.C. — Under the Friday night lights in Sumter, a different kind of racer finds speed. "Yeah we're just a bunch of adult men who play with toy cars for fun," said racer, Austin "Joker" Snyder.

It is the finale of RC Masters, a radio-controlled (RC) car race organised by Torque-7 Racing, a collective of RC car ...

Dan Filbert opened Ultraline Hobbies RC Raceway at 4810 S.W. Topeka Blvd. five years ago because he wanted to share his love of RC racing with Topeka. “We’ve been in this sport for a long time, and we ...

Like NASCAR racers, but on a much smaller scale, drivers of RC cars make a living through wins and endorsements. Some pro racers got their start as teenagers. The neon yellow race car whipped around ...