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Greenpower – Race Report

Race day was very successful and in the same way a
Rugby Team can leave everything on the field, the girls
have given everything in some extremely demanding
racing.
We have lots of improvement to do, but we finished 33rd
and as it is the international final we finished 33rd globally.
There were many international teams present including
one all the way from Brazil!
Eighty-five cars raced at the event all of whom had
podiumed in their respective regionals, so to beat any of
them in our first season would have been celebration
worthy. To be competitive and challenge 1 is a fantastic
achievement.
The girls had to do very tight racing in a car now worth
approx £15,000 (no typo fifteen thousand!) due to its
newly designed carbon body, so the pressure was on and
they handled it brilliantly.
Both their driving technique and pit stops were making
some experienced teams look like amateurs!
The job now is to figure out what magic formula is making
the other teams’ cars run faster as the girls have pushed
the current set up to its absolute limit.

The Greenpower Electric Vehicle Challenge is a national
competition organised through the UK Charity
Greenpower Education Trust. The Trust inspires young
people around the world to excel in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) through a unique
challenge: to design, build and race an electric car.
Craig Jewell is championing this initiative through his Girls’
in Science club. Mr Jewell