A team of seven students and two members of staff from Hans Price Academy took part in a fiercely contested race at the national Greenpower E-Car race day at Castle Combe. The aim of the race was to do as many laps in 90mins as possible on two 12V batteries.
The club started pre pandemic by the previous Head of Design & Technology so post pandemic the club was restarted by Iain Milford (Exams Officer) and Alex Young (Science Teacher)
Meeting weekly the club built the car bought by our sponsor National Grid from Greenpower Education Trust which is a UK based charity which gets young people enthusiastic about science and engineering by challenging them to design, build and race an electric car.
The age-appropriate Kit Cars can be built in school, college or elsewhere and raced at motorsport venues at Greenpower organised events. Alternatively, older participants can design and build their own car to our regulations. The Greenpower challenge uses the excitement of motorsport to inspire young people to excel in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM).
Finely tuned pit stops allowed all students in the race team to drive for at least 30 mins completing 5 laps of the circuit each. The car the students built was simple, but it was fast, enabling the drivers to be able to overtake a lot of other cars in some of the most exciting manoeuvres of the race. In the end their car managed to travel almost 80 miles around the Castle Combe track which gave them an admiral top 40 finish out of nearly 80 teams.
Iain and Alex said: “It was a lot of hard work but a great day out, hopefully we have inspired our students to get into engineering and motorsport, next time out we are hoping for a top 20 finish.”
