If you remember the days of snaking Hot Wheels tracks out of your bedroom, along the corridor and down the stairs and into the kitchen, or are still doing much the same with your children today, then here’s some inspiration to keep on building that track layout.
A former NASA engineer claims to have built the world’s longest Hot Wheels track, at over half a mile in length. Science vlogger Mark Rober built the track inside his Crunch Labs warehouse and used more than 75 official Hot Wheels speed boosters to propel a tiny car through a crazy series of switchbacks in order to cover sufficient distance to exceed the current Guinness World Record of 2464 ft 4 in set in Australia in 2020.
Rober’s record hasn’t yet been officially recognised by Guinness, but Christmas has still come early for the excitable engineer. “As a kid making Hot Wheels tracks was kind of a big deal, so I figured now that I’ve got this massive space why not make the world’s longest Hot Wheels track?,” he says.
Consider the gauntlet, and box-loads of Hot Wheels track, thrown down.
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