An Australian team of teenagers took first spoils at the 12th F1 in Schools World finals in Austin this week, and ultimately claimed second place behind Greece.
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Team Infinitude, a collaboration of 15- and 16-year-old students from Brighton Secondary School Adelaide and St Bede’s College in Melbourne, smashed last year’s world record with an impressive race time of 0.916 seconds.
The global, multi-disciplined challenge had teams of students aged nine to 19 deploy CAD/CAM software to collaborate, design, analyse, manufacture, test and race miniature compressed air-powered balsa wood F1 cars down a twenty-metre straight.
“We hoped to break the record but certainly didn’t expect to do it by that much,” 16-year-old Infinitude team manager Nicole Kascak said.
“I think our catamaran design style and our innovative extended canister housing, which no one else had done before, are the two key factors that have given us the edge”.
