History

Where it all started...

HISTORY

Formula 24+ CCHS Racing Team

In 2015 we embarked on a new venture with the ‘CCHS Formula 24+ Racing Team’, sponsored by Comus Engineering Europe, based in Thorpe-le-Soken. The electric racing car gradually took shape as the Sixth Form STEM students worked tirelessly on its construction and testing.

All their hard work culminated in an opportunity to race against other schools’ cars at the Rockingham Race Circuit. Last year a new team of students were tasked with making the car more aerodynamic, achieve better efficiency and obviously to go faster, at the same time! They have added more gearing and replaced numerous other components along with adding a new outer shell.

In October 2016 our STEM team took the car back to Rockingham Race Circuit in Northamptonshire. The outing was purely an opportunity to test the modifications made to the car but, as the track day was actually the Institute of Engineering and Technology’s International Kit Car Final for Greenpower F24 and Silverline cars, the team were keen to achieve a place on the starting grid and be competitive during the race. They spent the morning testing the car, making adjustments and experimenting with different drivers before lining up on the grid. The team managed to complete 17 laps in the allotted 90-minute race time to finish 29th out of the 36 competing teams. They worked hard all day and even managed to record a new top speed of 34mph during the practice session with one of the lighter drivers, more than double the speed achieved by the previous STEM F24 team in 2015. Well done to the whole team and thanks to the staff who gave up their Saturday to enable the team to achieve some fantastic results!!