A mechanical engineer from Rugby has used nearly 25 years of experience working with PTC technology to help him design and develop the world’s fastest remote-controlled car. 

Stephen Wallis, who honed his engineering skills at companies including Royal Enfield, Triumph Motorcycles and Greenjets, took just eight months to create, build, test and run ‘Mach Reaper’. 

Designed using PTC’s cloud-based Onshape solution, the car clocked 250.67 mph through the timing traps at a ROSSA (Radio Operated Scale Speed Association) speed event in North Wales. The achievement broke the previous Guinness World Record and makes Wallis the first person in history to push a remote-controlled car to those speeds. Just a few weeks later he broke his own record, reaching 256.47mph at an unofficial speed event. 

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