Bitter Sweet Ending

Well we finished our car in time. Unfortunately the Friday before the competition we took it out on our track at school and did some test runs. Due to the experimental steering it posed some problems. In the middle of the turn the driver had some problems and broke causing him to lose control and the car rolled. It was a possibility to fix the damage before race day, but the risk of it breaking again was too high.

So we decided to go down to the competition as spectators. We had a fun time looking at all the other awesome designs and getting ideas for the upcoming year. Right now we have decided to flip the car around and make it four wheels instead of the three. We have started already on taking it apart and laying it out.

It was disappointing not being able to compete this year, but it was better than risking our driver and the other drivers health. We gained a lot of information from studying others designs. So if we are able to get an adviser to run this program at our school next year, then we will be able to have a better car.

Here are a few pictures that we took as inspiration.