FPV-style racing — flying or driving a real vehicle through an onboard camera feed — isn't new to the world. What hadn't existed in Malaysia was a purpose-built track and a fleet of sim-style cockpits designed specifically to make that experience work for a general public audience, not just hobbyists with their own gear. That's what Vertex built for Yamaha's Karnival Gen Blu: VRC, live, at scale, for the first time in the country.
What VRC actually is
VRC stands for Vertex Radio Controlled — our own name for the system, not a licensed product. A driver sits at a rig that looks and feels like a racing simulator cockpit: wheel, pedals, a screen in front of them. But the screen isn't rendering a game — it's a live feed from an onboard camera mounted on a real, radio-controlled car, which the driver is piloting around a physical track in real time. It's sim-rig ergonomics wrapped around genuine RC racing.
Built from scratch for Yamaha
Karnival Gen Blu needed something that hadn't been attempted in Malaysia before, so there was no existing track or rig layout to copy. Vertex designed and built the physical circuit — barriers, a proper Start/Finish straight and gantry, corners tight enough to be genuinely challenging — alongside the line of VRC cockpits that controlled it, all under Yamaha's branding for the event.
The difference between watching an RC car race and driving one through its own eyes, from a seat that feels like a cockpit, is the entire point of VRC.
Why the crowd mattered as much as the track
Karnival Gen Blu drew a large, sustained crowd across the event, and the VRC track became one of its anchor attractions — queues of drivers waiting for a turn at the cockpit, and a crowd several rows deep watching the racing live at trackside. That combination — a genuinely novel experience, built and run reliably at public-event scale, under a major brand's name — is exactly the kind of activation Vertex is built to deliver.
Where VRC goes from here
Having built and proven the concept once, at scale, for a brand like Yamaha, VRC is now part of Vertex's standard equipment lineup — available as a rental addition to any event, or as the centrepiece of a brand's own custom-built track and activation, the same way we built it for Karnival Gen Blu.
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