We posted our season points and had quite a few members inquire about their total points for the season. The maximum points for placing first at every race after eight race days would be 480 points, some teams had in excess of that amount. Here are the correct season points after eight race days, a total of 16 races.
Electrathon Teams, please make sure to pre-register your teams for this race as it is required by our host. You can click on this link to register.
On April 22, 2017 Electrathon of Tampa Bay was well represented at the Five Flags Speedway Race. We had five teams with a total of nine cars that attended. The event drew a total of nineteen teams with thirty three cars. Thank you Vaughn Nichols, Five Flags Speedway, Sponsors, Volunteers and The Chiefs that made this race day outstanding. At lunch time we were served hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, cookies and drinks. Brandon High School, Middleton High School, University of South Florida, Pro EV and Tiger Racing raced and were able to secure five out of nine trophies. Go to this link to check out the race day events along with other teams represented and their Electrathon cars.
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Middleton Car 365 took 2nd Place in the High School Division
Tiger Racing Car 4 took 3rd Place in the Open Division
Pro EV Car 39 took 1st Place in the Open Division
Tiger Racing Car 4 took 3rd Place in Overall for the day
Pro EV Car 39 took 1st Place in Overall for the day
University of South Florida Car 132 came in fourth in the Open Division
Electrathon of Tampa Bay will have High School, Open and Experimental Battery Teams attending the race in Pensacola Florida on April 22, 2017. We will be handing out flyers / brochures to those at the event to attract them to our website and possibly our races. There are 19 Electrathon Teams and approximately 34 cars attending this race.
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Today we displayed one of our Electrathon cars at The 1st Kids Rock Science at MOSI. Thank You USF Team members Aditya and John for spending the day with Charlie answering questions about our organization. We handed out flyers and answered so many questions from interested guests. The US Navy, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and CW44 showed great interest in our organization. We had special appearances from The Flash that had to check out his competition, Superwoman, and Dr. Paul Bearer II.
Electrathon of Tampa Bay has one more race in their 2016 – 2017 Race Season. All of our teams have excelled this year. Electrathon of Tampa Bay Executive Board, thanks all of our Team Sponsors, Team Members, Parents, Business Partners and Sponsors for their support.
The Museum of Science & Industry is having a STEM Event (Kids Rock Science) on April 15, 2017. MOSI is located at 4801 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33617. The Event will be held between 10am and 2pm. ETO will have The University of South Florida Team car on display and flyers will be given to those attending the MOSI STEM Event to attract spectators and possibly new teams to our races.
RED – COURSE, BLUE – PITS, YELLOW – TAPE, WHITE – TOWER, GREEN – SCORING/REGISTRATION, BLACK – METAL RAILING
The last race of the ETO Season will be held on May 13, 2017 in Cocoa Florida in conjunction with The Energy Whiz Olympics. The address for The Florida Solar Energy Center is 1679 Clearlake Road Cocoa Florida 32922. We will be using the parking lot just SW of the area where the solar cooking competition is held behind Florida Solar Energy Centers main building.
TEAMS MUST PRE-REGISTER AT:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/EnergyWhizElectrathon
Due to weather conditions for Monday, April 3, 2017 in Leeds, Alabama the race at Barber Motor Sports was changed to May 8, 2017 per Brian Copes. ETO is working the schedule to get our teams to the new race date.
Our Electrathon Race scheduled for The Florida State Fairgrounds in conjunction with the Gulf Coast MakerCon Event will not take place at the Fairgrounds on April 8, 2017. The Gulf Coast MakerCon Event was cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. We have secured Middleton High School NW parking lot for our race. The course will not be the same as our previous scheduled race. Always looking to improve our events.
Yellow – Course
Orange – Bus Parking
Blue – Pits
Red – Registration / Scoring
Gray – Tower