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Team Rapido y Furioso

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My team Rapido y Furioso are competing in the F1 in Schools Technology Challenge. The completion is open to all secondary schools in Ireland. Each team must design and manufacture a compressed air-powered racing car. This blog will keep you up dated on our progress throughout the competition. We would really appreciate the support! Make sure you like us on Facebook and follow us on twitter @1rapidoyfurioso also!

28thh February 2013

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! 

20th February 2013

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! :) 

19th February 2013

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;

1. Our uniform
2. Printed Media
3. 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! :)

9th February 2013

As we are on mid term over the next week we will be working hard on 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!

9th February 2013

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! 

8th February 2013

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! :) 

5th February 2013

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.