Furze Platt
Greenpower Racing
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We were approached by Mark Gould the teacher in charge of the Greenpower project at Furze Platt Senior school in 2003 after the pupils had propelled themselves into the October final with their first car the ‘Sprocket Rocket’. They asked us if we could assist them getting some more speed out of the ‘Sprocket Rocket’ and provide a means of charging the batteries as well as we had experience in breaking World records with Human Powered Vehicles in our sister company Kingcycle. www.kingcycle.co.uk Sprocket Rocket in 2004 final pictured below.
We were by now rather hooked on the project and when asked if we could assist with a new faster car for 2004 we gladly agreed.
We discussed
the merits of aerodynamic body over the draw back of the extra weight it would
entail and after looking at ideas from
Miles Kingsbury’s record breaking bikes the team came up with a design for the
new car. The pupils were shown the design (see left), and they approved it, and so began the road that would lead eventually to the Goodwood lap record breaking ‘Turbo Tortoise’. |
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We modified
one of our Turbo trainers by fitting a car alternator kindly donated by Norths
Garage of Lane End and suggested some streamlining ideas to get more speed out
of the car. The car went well coming 22nd out of 65 and the use of human
powered battery charging won the Greenest car prize.
