USF Engineering Expo February 10, 2024

We held our STEM Electrathon Event in conjunction with the University of South Florida 2024 Engineering Expo. We thank the University of South Florida for their support again this year.

Teams arrived and got signed in and their cars inspected. The pits were busy with teams making last minute adjustments.

Plant City HS brought out their new car 210.

We thank the parents, family and friends that come out to support the students and teams.

Our Race Steward Mike Frederick met with everyone for the drivers/teams meeting.

At the registration area we encountered a challege between two high school rivals that use to race against one another. It was the Simmons team member, Victoria Hobbs challenging Midleton team member Ryan Norden to a competition between their two children when they are old enough to race against one another. This will be an interesting challenge coming to Electrathon in the future as both parents were/are very competitive.

We had twelve cars line up for the first, one hour competition.

During the race, a few teams had tire issues and had to change them out to get back into the race. Florida State College at Jacksonville car 904 had their rear wheel come apart ending their race day.

Mulberry HS hit the rear of Pro EV, sending Pro EV into a spin out. Both drivers did well and there were no injuries.

When the checkered flag dropped the standings were:
High School
1st Place Mulberry car 100 with 59 laps (race time of 1.00.11)
2nd Place Plant City car 83 with 59 laps (race time of 1.00.27)
3rd Place Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation car 555 with 58 laps
4th Place Middleton car 80 with 53 laps
5th Place Mulberry car 38 with 51 laps
6th Place Plant City car 210 with 42 laps
7th Place Middleton car 133 with 39 laps

Open
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 70 laps
2nd Place Florida State College at Jacksonville car 904 with 57 laps

Advanced
1st Place Pro EV car 39 with 76 laps
2nd Place USF car 48 with 72 laps
3rd Place Middleton car 27 with 66 laps (best lap of 41.554)

Between races the teams made adjustments to their cars.

We had eleven cars line up for the second race of the day.

When the checkered flag dropped it was:

High School
1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 67 laps
2nd Place Plant City car 210 with 65 laps
3rd Place Mulberry car 100 with 62 laps
4th Place Middleton car 133 with 61 laps (race time of 1.00.03)
5th Place Plant City car 83 with 61 laps (race time of 1.00.47)
6th Place Middleton car 80 with 57 laps
7th Place Mulberry car 38 with 55 laps

Open
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 73 laps

Advanced
1st Place Pro EV car 39 with 75 laps
2nd Place USF car 48 with 57 laps (best lap of 41.477)
3rd Place Middleton car 27 with 53 laps

We add the laps from each race to get our overall race results for the day.
High School
1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 125 laps