Kiddie Car Racing for Adults

Remember Power Wheels?

The toy car that kid down the block drove around?

Well it's not too late to get your own.

The Power Racing Series is a new auto sports league

that pits mini-mobiles against each other,

in tiny but heated competition.

Racers compete in three different challenges.

A drag race, a 15-lap mini grand prix

and a 75-minute endurance challenge,

where the goal is to complete as many laps

as possible without melting your vehicle.

Or falling asleep.

Team Sector 67 fielded a camouflage Jeep

capable of reaching 24 miles per hour,

thanks to two 1.25 horsepower street sweeper motors

attached to an electric differential and wheelbarrow wheels.

The true breakthrough though, was a remote telemetry kit,

that relayed speed, motor temperature and battery voltage.

Hit the Oh Shit button

and you can disable the entire system.

The unofficial series motto,

speed, glory, electrical fires.

Take this car, the Baby Burrito, from Milwaukee Makerspace.

It made it back on the course

after a high-intensity pit stop.

Team Sector 67 won the series.

They took home a pretty big trophy for such a tiny Jeep.

(Wiggly Things by Jose Castillo)