How often does RC Racer break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 9 real breakdown episodes for RC Racer — about 0.7 per week, spread across 9 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is RC Racer usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for RC Racer lasted 68 minutes (average 67 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 145 minutes, on 2026-07-31.

RC Racer Reliability & Wait Patterns

Hong Kong Disneyland · Based on 17528 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.35

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

30m

Typical (p50) wait

50m

Busy (p90) wait

70m

Worst-case (p99)

90m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

33m

Weekday average

32m

Weekend average

0.96×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time RC Racer flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

Recorded breakdowns

68m

Typical (median) outage

2h 25m

Longest outage (2026-07-31)

0.7

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-13	30m
2026-09-23	27m
2026-08-26	1h 8m
2026-08-17	58m
2026-08-14	1h 27m
2026-07-31	2h 25m
2026-07-25	17m
2026-07-21	1h 19m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 9 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

10
1%

11
2%

12
2%

13
3%

14
2%

15
1%

16
1%

17
1%

18
1%

19
2%

20
3%

21
0%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

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Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

+1m

Light Rain · 45 ride-hours · within noise

+0m

Cloudy · 336 ride-hours · within noise

-0m

Clear · 229 ride-hours · within noise

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