There has been a ton of talk from both inside and outside of the auto industry regarding the future of self-driving, or autonomous, automobiles. Luxury automakers like Mercedes-Benz and Tesla Motors already offer semi-autonomous driving features, allowing passengers to let the car handle low-speed and highway driving using systems like adaptive cruise control and LiDAR.

Yet watching your car drive itself through morning traffic isn’t half as much fun as watching this autonomous Audi RS7 ripping its way around the Parcmotor raceway outside of Barcelona, Spain, on its way to setting a new lap record. If autonomous cars are already setting lap records, how soon before autonomous racing leagues start popping up?

The autonomous Audi RS7, nicknamed Robby, has been making its way across the world to demonstrate its self-driving technology. Driving journalists from California to Las Vegas and racing around race tracks all over Europe, Robby aims to prove that Audi is every bit the leader in autonomous tech that Mercedes and Tesla is trying to be.

To that end, Robby lapped Parcomotor raceway in 2:07.67 at an average speed of over 73 MPH. Robby is an evolution from Bobby, the first autonomous Audi, and thanks to advancements in technology, it weighs 800lbs less than its forebearer, allowing the 4.0 liter twin-turbo V8 to really stretch its legs. This allows Audi to show how its self-driving cars can push the limits of performance, especially on the race track.

We’re not talking about replacing humans driving in Formula One, mind you, but rather an a separate motorsport for autonomous cars, a no-holds-barred spectacle where the risk of death is eliminated, allowing for truly outlandish and impossible driving stunts. Imagine how much crazier NASCAR could be if driver safety simply wasn’t an issue? If cars could ditch the heavy and restrictive safety equipment and be built purely for performance?

It’s going to happen, and we fully expect to see Audi at the front of the first autonomous motorsport races.