Rápido y Furioso: February 2013

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Car has arrived

Today our car from Cork I.T. arrived! i think we all were amazed at how light and small the car actually was. We have also been in a lot of contact with our sponsors ITB lately and they have agreed to come and support us at the competition next Friday. They have also arranged for their photographer to come to the event and take pictures of us racing our car and our stand. We are all really looking forward to the event!

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Kfm radio Interview

Yesterday, myself (Katie) , Eilise and Ciara went to Kfm in Naas to represent Team Rapido y Furioso in a radio interview with Clem! We talked about what the F1 in Schools is all about and in particular how we are preparing for the competition. The whole experience was really exciting and we really enjoyed ourselves! :)

Here is the podcast of the interview so make sure to have a listen! :)

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Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Our Sponsors ITB

This week we are delighted to announce that the main sponsor for Rapido y Furioso will be The Institute of Technology Blanchardstown (ITB). On Monday we received confirmation from them that they would be happy to get on board with our team. As part of our deal we will be working closely with them to promote the F1 in Schools Challenge in schools in the Dublin 15 area. ITB will be have there own competition which will take place on the 14th May 2013, which we will also be helping them to promote.

The money ITB have given you will be used to fund various parts of our project including;

Our uniform
Printed Media
The painting of our car

Team Rapido y Furioso are extatic about working with such a major Institute in Ireland. We look forward to the up and coming weeks! :)

Saturday, 9 February 2013

Busy, Busy, Busy

As we are on mid term over the next week w will be working hard o our report which is a compulsory part of the competition. In our report we document the decisions made, people we contacted, the design of our car and what our team is like.

The two Ciara's will also be working on sourcing new sponsors and organizing fund-raising events! IF you are interested in sponsoring us drop us an email at f1rapidoyfurioso@gmail.com.

Here is an example of what the final report should look like. Team Quasar were the national winners of 2012!

Portfolio quasar from katiehurley06

Interview with Kfm

We are delighted to announce that we will be airing on the Kfm radio station on the 21st of February at 11:10 until 11:30! make sure you tune in to hear about what we have been up to and what the F1 in Schools competition is all about! Any sponsors we have we will give them a big shout out!

Car Finished!!!

Yesterday we added some last minute touches to our car on solid works We came into some difficultly during the week when we realized that the weight of our car was going to be to heavy. Therefore we had to make a few changes to insure that the car was as close to 55 grams as possible to insure maximum speed.

There was also a change in the manufacture of our car. The people of Cork Institute of Technology will be looking after are car.

We are delighted with our car and we hope you like it to leave comments to let us know what you think! :)

Tuesday, 5 February 2013

Car design #2

Today we were working on our Car Design number 2. We have made quite a few changes compared to our first design. We have shaped the nose cone to make the car more aerodynamic. We have also added air channels to increase the aerodynamics of the car. We have also been working on the front airflow of the car. However, we plan to make the front of the airflow rounder so that the air flows over the car. We also plan to create some air channels underneath the car to add more aerodynamics. We will also be adding the wheels to our design with in the net few days as our design must be emailed to Limerick University by Friday.

Car design #2 from katiehurley06

Monday, 4 February 2013

Design #1

Last week were busy drawing the developments which we would us to create and design our car on the Solidworks software at school. This is the beginning of our first design we have come up with. The nose cone where the gas cylinder will go, will come to a point to make I more streamlined and increase aerodynamics.