The top gear circuit was the venue for the Surrey Regional Heat, where team R-Pod took two cars, R-PodS and the all new C-Pod. We were competing in the F24 race with R-PodS, while C-Pod was built to compete in Formula Catapult - a 200m drag race in a car built with a car battery & standard car starter motor.
C-Pod had been built over the summer using parts from the old S-Factor car and had been entirely designed & built by Alex & Joe, with help & support from Sam. There hadn't been time to fully test C-Pod, so it was not surprising that it didn't perform flawlessly - it managed 3rd place but most disappointingly, the parachute failed to open, so it is back to the drawing board.
The main F24 race started well but R-Pods had yet another puncture after the second driver change. The remaining race was fairly uneventful but there just isn’t time to catch up in a four hour race so we came a disappointing 9th. Again it was good experience for the new drivers and we managed to improve their driving considerably.
