text: Nanocar Race is an international scientific competition with the aim of testing the performance of getting a large molecule suspended over a solid surface to cover the largest distance with the use of a scanning tunneling microscope.
  The first race consisted of overcoming a distance of 100 nanometer and was held for the first time in Toulouse on 28 and 29 April 2017. A second race was held in 2022 with the winners covering multiple hundreds of nanometers.