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Rotary Racer - 2011

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

NATIONAL F24 FINAL WINNERS - 2011 and 2009

Proud Platinum Mileage Award holders (125 Miles)

Rotary Racer at Silverstone

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 3000 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 2011 season managing to win the National Greenpower F24 Championship at the final held in Goodwood in October 2011 as well as a number of regional wins.
Our Fab Sponsors

Rotary Club,
Chipping Sodbury
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Towns Land Trust,
Chipping Sodbury
FairDiesel
Wates
  CTEK Chargers
 

BLD Group
 ------------------ Kemble Airfield
 

Royal Air Force
 

Beam ltd

 

Schwalbe

Info on Sponsorship

Rotary Racer News

  • Welcome to our new team members - Jacob Lucas, Michael Lockyer and Joe May.
  • The Rotary Racer team show at the Bloodhound SSC education centre open day. Pictures and a short Video on BBC Points West. (Video In mp4 format)
  • A write up on the work of the Rotary Racer team during the 2011 season.
  • Rotary Racer takes first place at national final of Greenpower! A great end to a fantastic season for this Car.
  • Greenpower Final 2011 Click on the link for some information on Greenpower and for how well Chipping Sodbury School does as a whole.
  • A huge thank-you to FairDiesel for their very genorous sponsorship money! Fairdiesel is a local company which have come up with a two stroke diesel engine of unusual design. To find out more, please click on the linkFairDiesil engine.
  • The Chipping Sodbury School wind tunnel has been finished! Pictures and report will be uploaded soon for all to see. Thank-you to the Rotary club and Wates for making this possible!
  • Rotary Racer takes the chequered flag in first place at Castle Combe race circuit. See a race report at : Castle Combe
  • Rotary Racer wins by Nineteen laps at Merryfield Race circuit on the 17th September 2011. Merryfield
  • Rotary Racer take another gold medal at Dunsfold race circuit. Greenpower zooms to Dunsfold race track
  • 18-06-11 Rotary Racer and fellow team- RPODS - took their place in the Chipping Sodbury annual parade along the highstreet. Everyone had a great time!
  • Southern Regional Heat - Goodwood race report
  • Corporate Challenge 2011
  • Thank-you to Towns land trust for their very welcomed in donation of £400 to the Rotary Racer team. The money will be well spent on improving the car!
  • Thank-you very much to the Rotary club for their very genorous donation to the greenpower teams at Chipping Sodbury school. The money they have donated will be spent on new batteries and also the new wind tunnell for the teams.
  • Race Report for the final 
  • Rotary Racer takes 3rd place in the national final (even though the throttle broke and had to be fixed!)! Well done to everyone.
  • 11th October: Last greenpower session before the final. The team go through strategies for the final, chossing drivers and what they are going to do with their batteries.
  • Rotary Racer is given sponsorship from Schwalbe. Thank-you! You can see the above link for details on Schwalbe.
  • 26th September: The team go to dunsfold where we come 2nd again by 4 seconds. We manage to completely DEMOLISH our batteries, but this is OK as we wont be using them again.
  • 19th September: Rotary Racer go to Merryfield. We manage to come 2nd behind our fellow school team - R-PODS.
  • 18th September: Rotary Racer shows at Air Bus Family open day.
  • The new foam sides take shape and the new, even stronger, roll-bar is fitted.
  • The new wheels are built.
  • Rotary Racer shows at Rolls Royce Family open day.
  • 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

The Team

The Rotary Racer team are:

F24+: Dan Dando (Getting Smarter Wookie) , Gareth Barnaby (Ex-Wookie, but now Wookie again) and Ben Miller (Oh wait, I stepped on him! - in other words princess Mildred

F24: Thomoas Allington (the tank engine) with his Dad - Kevan Allington , Dawn Barnaby (Little Miss Flat-Out) and Louise Barnaby (Persil, small and mighty) with their Dad Terry Barnaby, Steph Dando (the Anti-Stig) and her Dad Martin Dando, Jacob Lucas and his Dad Paul Lucas, Michael Lockyer and his Dad Rob Lockyer and finally, Joe May with his Dad Pete May.  Nicknames will soon be updated :)

Older Race Reports

General Information

Car development

 Performance and Data Logs

  History

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