Next race

A date for your diaries. We have 4 weeks before we are to submit a winning team for the regional final. The plan is to do a race each week for the next 3 weeks and then have our qualifying race. The winner of this qualifying race will be the team selected to represent Brigshaw.

In preparation for this Thursday's race I am going to post some information on here so that you can, if you wish, begin to take measurements of the track to help set up your car. You will only have just over an hour to do all the set up for the race on Thursday.

So then, for our second race. Get your beachwear, apply the suncream and don your sunglasses. We're off to Brazil and the Autodromo Carlos Pace circuit at Interlagos. There will be 50 laps and you will need to check the weather carefully for the race. If you want to start preparation early pick up a copy of the track from Mr White from Monday. Please remember to prepare your cars as accurately as possible. If you rely on trial and error you will find yourself at the back of the grid!

F1 Week One

We Have Now Started A New Project

RACING CARS
'Maths In Motion'

This Week We Have Been Put Into Pairs To Work On Computerised F1 Car Racing.
Firstly We Had To Pull A Piece Of Paper Out Of A Hat With A F1 Driver Name And Team.
After That We Had To Find Our Partners And Decide On A Team Name.
Then We Were Given A Piece Of Paper With The Silver stone Track Printed Onto It With Safe Speeds And Corner Labellings. We Had To Figure Out If A Corner Was A Tight, Medium or Long Bend By Drawing Two Straight Lines With A Ruler Until They Met And Took The Angle Of Them With a Protractor And Found Out Which It Was By Checking On The Information Box In The Middle Of The Sheet. As We Had To Do With The Straights Long, Medium or Short But This Time We Measured The Straight By Measuring It With A Ruler And Found Out What it Was With The Information Box.
When We Had Finished Doing That We Went On To The Engine Tuning.
We Had To Randomise A Choice Of Four Tunings: Engine, Suspension, Aerodynamics and Gear Box. Out Of 100% Until We Found A Good Combination That Suited Us.

F1 raceing car project

For the past 2 weeks we have been working on a computerised car project. First we had to put each corner and straight in to different categories, long straight, medium straight and short straight and long bend, medium bend and steep bend from the length /angle of the straight/bend shown on the map. Then we had to set up our car by changing the engine tuning, suspension, aerodynamics and gearbox to get the best effect on different turns and straights. Finlay we had to choose which tyres we want our cars to race on and the amount of fuel we want on board at the start and if we wanted any pit stops. We could choose which sort of driver we had, from sedate to dangerous.

The race around silverstone was long (partially because Mr White had it on slow commentary until half way and because it was 25 laps long) and frustrating but in the end the winner was Jordan R (me!) 18 seconds ahead of the runner up!!!

Results of the logo vote

Many thanks for all your votes over the week (many of which I note were crammed in in the last few minutes before the poll shut!). The results are as follows.....

In joint 3rd place, with 5 votes are logos 3, 7, 8 and 16

In joint 2nd place, with 6 votes each are logos 12 and 14

And our clear winner, with 12 votes is ..............................
LOGO 5!

Thank you very much for all your brilliant designs. Every logo was voted for at least once and very well done to whoever designed the winning logo! I will update this post with the winners identity sometime soon. We will now try and find someone who can produce hoodies with the logo embroidered. If you've any thoughts about colour, names, other information to include etc please add to the comments below.