What is "outracing"

Usage examples of "outracing".

His mind was going and going, outracing the car, running on ahead of his thoughts, fibrillating like a bad heart until suddenly it stopped, dead still, conjectural operations ceased, and a clear bracing coldness descended through his overheated body in one long slow continuous wave.

Talann, and before Pallas could say another Talann whirled and sprinted across the deck of the barge sprang onto the pier and across it to the burning deck of the opposite, then curved for shore, outracing the flames.