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Ideally we'd like to put some sort of material on the track at the end to slow it down so that it's not damaged at the end. If we find that too hard to do we were just going to softer cushions.

The cars usually travel at about 55mph

We will be racing a 55g model F1 car on the 28th of April in the F1 in Schools national finals however at the regional finals we came across a problem. The car traveled 24 meters in 1.1 seconds but broke on impact with the towel used to stop the car at the end of the race. We need to find a...

Athena Racing is an F1 in Schools team from Dublin, Ireland. F1 in Schools is a competition in which students must manufacture and race a to scale F1 car, give verbal presentations, raise funds and talk with judges. We hope to represent Ireland at the world finals in Texas.