Six of our students from Years 8 to 11 attended KMF in the Community’s Young Engineer of the Year event at Mallory Park on Thursday 19th September.
We had a 6am start from Haywood to drive to the race event in time for a practice session
We then had two 90-minute endurance races in which the car that goes the furthest distance is the winner (not necessarily the fastest.) It is a real balancing act between speed and making the batteries last the full 90 minutes!
All cars have the same motor and the same type of batteries, so it was down to the design and engineering on the car.
We were in the lead for both races for a long time, but the batteries faded towards the end each time and overall for the event we came 3rd.
We also achieved second place for the ‘best engineered car’ competition so that’s two more trophies for the Haywood trophy cabinet!
Well done Team!
