What is the fastest an earth-like planet can spin and still support life, and would it be possible to launch space-craft from it?

I was wondering, if a planet in similar size and mass to earth would have, from its creation, been spinning at this hypothetical planet speed limit (with it somehow staying in once piece) could life still evolve with the conditions that seem catastrophic to us? (huge disk shaped equator, from what I gather, and extremely intense winds)

And more importantly, could they even begin to launch space-ships, or would the terrible conditions keep them bound to the ground?

The context I am using is, Imagine that a probe travels to the planet, would it just be a big blur? And could the probe accelerate to the speed of the planet and orbit it?

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