Our first step’s taken towards racing our cars was actually designing our cars. My design was based on a 1967 Fiat F1 car, consisting of a small nimble body with rounded ends. My first steps in constructing this design were drawing, and cutting the body out on a bandsaw. The second step was drilling out the axils for my wheels. thus leading into my third step, designing my wheels. The original wheel designs were based on the Fiat F1 wheels which were gold 5 spoke wheels in a star pattern. I ended up doing a rally-style 5 spoke star pattern with break fans.
The conclusion of the race is that my wheels did not aid me in speed, their diameter is too big. If I was to make them smaller then I might have helped my chance of winning. Thoughts on what to improve on are, don’t try and make a model car and to focus on design, and not make really big wheels.
