We held our second STEM Electrathon Event at Kirkland Ranch Academy of Innovation (KRAI) in Pasco County on Saturday, October 14th. We thank KRAI Sponsor David Kocher, his team and Administration for their support of our organization. We thank Jarrett Ford Dade City, Wesley Chapel Toyota, and Elder Ford Tampa for bringing out their vehicles. We also thank 1 Up Burger Food Truck for coming out to our event, the burgers and fries were really good. Trish and Torie went all out to get us to wear pink for Breast Cancer Awareness Month; they brought homemade cookies, cupcakes, goody bags and trophies.
Our KRAI team honored Breast Cancer Awareness Month with their car 555.
Teams arrived and got signed in and their cars inspected. The pits were busy with teams making last minute adjustments.
Our Race Steward Mike Ralph met with everyone for the drivers/teams meeting.
We had eight cars line up for the first, one hour competition.
There were a few issues during the first race for a number of our teams but they did not give up, getting them back onto the track.
When the checkered flag dropped the standings were:
High School
1st Place Middleton car 80 with 57 laps
2nd Place Mulberry car 100 with 53 laps
3rd Place Middleton car 133 with 52 laps
4th Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 50 laps
5th Place Plant City car 83 with 37 laps
6th Place Mulberry car 38 with 20 laps
Open
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 67 laps
Advanced
1st Place USF car 48 with 42 laps
Between races the teams made adjustments to their cars, ate lunch from 1 Up Burger Truck, enjoyed the cookies and cupcakes and looked at the electric vehicles, asking a lot of questions.
We had seven cars line up for the second race of the day.
USF Car 48 developed an internal issue with their wheel hub motor preventing them from being in the second race. The Mulberry HS team worked to figure out their car issues that just would not go away. Sponsor Todd Thuma and his team never give up.
When the checkered flag dropped it was:
High School
1st Place Kirkland Ranch car 555 with 67 laps
2nd Place Middleton car 80 with 50 laps
3rd Place Mulberry car 100 with 45 laps
4th Place Plant City car 83 with 42 laps
5th Place Middleton car 133 with 39 laps
6th Place Mulberry car 38 with 18 laps
Open
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 68 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 117 laps
2nd Place Middleton car 80 with 107 laps
3rd Place Mulberry car 100 with 98 laps
4th Place Middleton car 133 with 91 laps
5th Place Plant City car 83 with 79 laps
6th Place Mulberry car 38 with 38 laps
Open
1st Place Tiger Racing car 4 with 135 laps
Advanced
1st Place USF car 48 with 42 laps
The best lap of the day (42.350) was done by Kirkland Ranch car 555 during the first race.
Our next STEM Electrathon Event will be held on Saturday November 4th at Plant City High School.