We had our first race of the season on Saturday. Here is some footage from the race. We won the first heat, the second heat, and was the overall winner with 225 laps, the next closest was 199 laps.

Thanks for posting this. It is great to see other programs. From all the way up in Oregon I know that the chances of me seeing a race in Florida are very slim. So you got 225 laps over the two days-that is a lot of trips around that curvy track. I am guessing from looking at it that the track was about 1/4 to 1/5 of a mile so you went about 22 to 28 miles each day. Is that about right? Thanks again for the helmet cam and spectator video and congratulations on the win, Mike Hodgert

Glad you enjoyed it. Those numbers sound about right. It was a very short course. We had both of our races the same day with 2 hours in between to charge and eat lunch. This is the standard way we do it here in Florida.

Drewjet is being modest - his car/ team is undefeated. They started racing about a year ago and have won every event they've entered! Mike - If you'll come out here to one of our races, I'll supply you with a car to race.

I would like to come to a race outside the Northwest for the fun of it. Don't know when because I'll be in college, and I don't know what will be happening for the summer races in the Northwest either.

Drew,

Question about the Tampa race. There are no results posted in the race results section of this forum or the EA website. Hopefully you or someone else will post them there soon, it may answer my question.

I see you are running lith-ion batteries. Are others in Florida running them? If you were the only person running them you would have been the only person in that race. You would have taken both first and last place (I am assuming you were running as a student?). You were in a separate catagory than everyone else just like a student is not scored against an adult. Unfortionatly, this is one of the issues of the rule changing to allow all of the new batteries. We went from 4 catagories to 16 catagories at each race (I think that is correct, may be more, the posted rulebook on the website do not appear current).

If I am correct, you were the winner for the lith-ion/student/non-solar catagory.  All other cars were in other catagories.  The reason for this is that your batteries were substancially lighter than the other cars, even though they had similar output.  If you were racing against them, you had an unfair advantage.

Aaron

-- Edited by electrathon on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 11:17:49 PM

I think its good to try something new, unlike some people. I ran yellow tops at the last two summer races this year and was beating people who were using red tops that couldn't compete with me because they couldn't hold a charge for the hour.
-- Edited by Zaine Stapleton on Wednesday 22nd of September 2010 03:24:16 AM

-- Edited by Zaine Stapleton on Wednesday 22nd of September 2010 05:48:13 AM