Rotary Racer - 2010

NATIONAL FINAL WINNERS - 2009

Proud Platinum Mileage Award holders

This page is devoted to the Chipping Sodbury School's Rotary Racer Greenpower electric car. This is an efficient electric racing car designed, built and raced by pupils and parents at Chipping Sodbury School in the Greenpower schools challenge. Greenpower cars race in 4 hour endurance races on full size racing circuits and generally average a speed of around 46Km/H achieving equivalent MPG values of greater than 1500 MPG. The aims of the IMechE Greenpower initiative is to promote engineering and technology as exciting careers, to those aged 9-21. The concept is for teams of secondary school pupils, their parents and teachers to design, build, develop and race highly efficient "green" electric racing cars. The Rotary Racer team had an excellent 2009 season managing to win the National Greenpower Championship at the final held in Goodwood in October 2009 along with a number of regional wins. Lets hope that 2010 will be as good as 2009!

Our Fab Sponsors Rotary Club, Chipping Sodbury  ------------------ Towns Land Trust, Chipping Sodbury  ------------------ Shipp Engineering Ltd   CTEK Chargers   BLD Group  ------------------ Avonside Insulation Supplies  ------------------ Kemble Airfield   Royal Air Force   Beam ltd Info on Sponsorship

Rotary Racer News

• Rotary Racer was unlucky on the 27th of April (western regional heat) as the car managed to roll over on practise laps. Thank-fully the driver is fine, and he wasnt hurt at all. The rollbar held steady and apart from the rubbing off of the insulation foam on the top edges and a buckled wheel the car was mostly untouched. The team have decided to replace the rollbar as it has been used. They are also going to re-do the sides of the car and use smaller sized wheels to reduce the posibility of the car rolling over.
• Rotary Racer managed to complete 127.2 miles at Goodwood on the 20th June. The car raced so well, the team managed to recieve a platinum milage award as well as winning the race.
• The team competed in the Corporate Challenge on April the 25th. The team managed to get 3rd place, behind Zebedee and Simple Trug. Throughout the race there were constant battles between Brian and Rotary Racer, but in the final laps we came out on top.
• Rotary Club Presentation On Rotary Racer 

The rotary racer team made and showed a presentation to the Rotary club. Click on the above link to see the presentation and to learn more about greenpower and Rotary Racers involvement in the club.

• Wates, a building firm who is building a new school sports hall has very kindly provided us with assistance by building us a new greenpower shed at the school. The teams at Chipping Sodbury School are hoping that they will be able to put a wind tunnel in it to test the greenpower cars and their air resistance quality.Click here to learn all about the building, and see how it is progressing.

• The team members in Rotary Racer are awarded Gold Member Badges by Bloodhound SSC, a project trying to build the fastest land car ever. They went to a presentation, and told people how greenpower worked, and how Rotary Racer was involved in the fantastic club which provides a unique opportuntiy. Bloodhound SSC Project
  
• *** Rotary Racer wins the National Greenpower Final 2009 ! ***
• Rotary Racer wins at Dunsfold (Top Gear) circuit September 2009
• Rotary Racer wins at Castle Combe, September 2009
• Rotary Racer 8 is completed and races at the Southern Counties event at Goodwood
• The New Rotary Racer 8 Design 2009
• Engineering and Technology Education Article (Full Magazine)
• Rotary Racer gets fourth place and wins the "Best Enginnered Car award" at the Greenpower Corporate Challenge at Goodwood 2009-04-26.
• The Fusion and Rotary Racer teams rasied £570 between them in a sponsored bag packing session at Morisons in Yate. A big thank you to all who donated, Morrisons and the Fussion team for organising the day.
• Rotary Racer is awarded sponsership from the Rotary Club and the Towns Land trust
• Rotary Racer gets second place at Greenpower national final 2008-10-19 !
• Rotary Racer wins at Dunsfold Park: 2008-09-28
• Rotary Racer wins at Castle Combe 2008-06-22

The Team

The Rotary Racer team are:

James(nicknamed The Stig-ISH) and Thomas(nicknamed Rookie) with their Dad-Kevan Allington, Gareth(nicknamed Ex Wookie)and Dawn(nicknamed Polly pitstop)with their Dad-Terry Barnaby, Dan(nicknamed Wookie #2) and Steph Dando(nicknamed Penelope Pitstop) with their Dad-Martin Dando, Ben(nicknamed Oh wait, I stepped on him!) with his Dad-Ian Miller and finally but not means least, Liam(nicknamed Sir Chipalott) with his Mum-Steff Towills.

Race Reports

• Rotary Racer 8 is completed and races at the Southern Counties event at Goodwood 2009-07-12
• Chipping Sodbury recent races
• Chipping Sodbury older races
• Greenpower Goodwood Final
• Greenpower Dunsfold Park
• Greenpower Castle Combe
• Greenpower Goodwood Corporate Challenge

General Information

• Schools Greenpower Website
• Greenpower oganisation
• General Pictures
• Some Pictures/Videos
• Rotary Racer 2007 - 2008: Martin Dandos PowerPoint (Power Point)
• Rotary Racer 7's Design 2007 - 2008
• The 2008 Seasons developments
• CarElectronics 2008 
• CarComputer: Drivers Manual 
• Sponsorship

Car development

• VWT Video
• Rotary Racer's Roll at Castle Combe, 2010
• Development
• The New Rotary Racer 8 Design 2009
• The Rotary Racer 7 Design 2007 - 2008
• Car Computer
• Car Horn
• Greenpower Car Science
• Greenpower Virtual Wind Tunnel
• Greenpower Car and Race Simulator
• Telemetry.html
• Technical Information
• MotorTesting.html
• BatteryTesting.html
• RR8-RollingResistance.html

 Performance and Data Logs

• Performance Figures from various races 
• RotaryRacerPerformance-7
• RotaryRacerPerformance-6

  History

• history