Calculations predict take off at around 6 Metres per second. Remember take off is
controlled by car speed and radius of hill curve. The common suggestion of adding
weight will not help except that it tends to slow the car down.
8 Electronics
In 2009 most of the cars used an electronics system of some sort. The question has now
become.
ELECTRONICS: To use it or not?????
The regulations have been changed in order to remove the disadvantage that cars not
using electronics have. Hopefully this change will encourage more teams to operate cars
without “the magic black box”.
The changes allow significantly reduced ballast for a non electronics car.
The reason behind this change is simple. Since electronics has come into universal use at
the National level (and probably most states) the interviewing panel has noted a
significant drop in teams understanding of the effect on car performance of motor, solar
panel configuration, gear ratio and wheel size. Total reliance is being placed on the