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A 1.76 pound drone can now move faster than a Tesla at top speed in Ludicrous Mode.

Yesterday, the Drone Racing League set the Guinness World Record for fastest drone, or the category of “fastest ground speed by a battery-powered remote-controlled quadcopter.”

Called the DRL Racer X, the drone can fly at a top speed of 179.6 MPH.

The test was done in a field outside of New York City – with an official Guinness World Records adjudicator on hand to verify the speed. The drone was clocked flying back and forth across a 100 meter long field – with the official record being the average of the top speed from each trial. So the official world record ended up being 163.5 MPH.

There was no prior record for this category – but Guinness mandated that the minimum speed requirement would need to be 128 MPH in order to be included in the record book.