Day 3

Today was the first day of racing. Sadly we weren’t able to race today. We haven’t passed all the scrutineering tests yet. So we worked as all the other teams went on the track. Everyone was pretty down. But the people who weren’t racing help us out. We had a lot of trouble with brakes. They needed to be bleed, and that took forever! (Bleeding the brakes is when you need to get all the air bubbles out of the mass cylinders or else the brakes wont work.) Then we connect the solar panels.

FINALLY we tested the car. IT WORKED!!!!!! We nearly screamed our heads off. We were soo happy. All the hard work paid off. The car went around the parking lot a couple of times. We all started making phone calls to everyone else back home. “We did it! It works!” and THEN, the car broke…………………. The driver didn’t want to hit the building so she took a sharp turn. Ehhhh. The left and the back wheel were turned at an angle and got twisted. So, we pushed the car back into the garage and took off the left and the back wheel. Work, heat, sweat. We were tired. When we were finally done putting everything back together, we went to the general scrutineering. We passed. Finally. Maybe, finally, we’ll get to race tomorrow. :]

At the end of the day, we went for the car carrying competition. What were we thinking?!? Our car weighs like 500 pounds!!! We dropped the car after a couple feet. :[

Alicja got tired ;]

Our car <3

-Skiddles