{"id":2834,"date":"2016-03-16T22:58:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2016-04-14T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T18:55:49","slug":"7th-races-sets-a-new-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"7th Race Sets A New Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time in Electrathon of Tampa Bay history\u00a0teams went for speed over endurance\u00a0but endurance did pop up in the first race.\u00a0The races were held on the flat\u00a01\/4<\/strong> running track at Middleton High School.<\/p>\n

A normal race\u00a0day has two one hour endurance races.\u00a0This time around\u00a0the teams went for speed over a pair of 20 min. races.<\/strong>\u00a0One third the time of a regular race.\u00a0With one third the time conventional wisdom would say you would not run out of battery power.\u00a0Over two races a couple of teams did manage to run low on power.<\/p>\n

In the first race of\u00a0the High School Class the\u00a0Middleton 80 car with their big gears installed jumped out to a very fast start and a commanding lead.\u00a0They ran out of\u00a0power late in the race and finished second to the Middleton Girls Team in the 133 car by one lap.\u00a0But they\u00a0also turned in the fastest lap of the day for the High School Class at 26.684 sec. over 1\/4 mile for 33.72 mph.\u00a0The fastest lap of the day was in the Experimental Battery Class by the Electrocutioners in the 90 car at 25.644 sec. for 37.908 mph.<\/p>\n

If the Middleton girls could get some new\/better batteries I think they could take the boys team on a regular basis.\u00a0The car is fast enough.<\/p>\n

Race day saw some new cars and new faces competing.\u00a0Simmons Career Center showed up with their second car and a new driver.\u00a0We want to welcome Lennard High School\u00a0and their 86 car.\u00a0For their first ever race day they posted very respectable lap totals.\u00a0In the spirit of sportsmanship Simmons loaned Lennard a set of batteries for the second race since Lennard only has one set of batteries.\u00a0As a new team they are still assembling the gear for their team.<\/p>\n

In the open class\u00a0Rodney in the\u00a004\u00a0battled USF in the 132 car both races to come out on top.\u00a0 They were together in the first race till a few min. to go then the 04 took off for a one lap win with 34 total.\u00a0 In the second race the 04 car picked it up quite a bit and put in 39 laps.<\/p>\n

In the Experimental Battery Class it was Drew and Pony and then Pony and Drew\u00a0trading wins and cars in the two races.\u00a0In the first race it was Drew in the 90 with 45 laps and Pony in the 72 with 45 laps with Drew by 3 sec. for 1st.<\/p>\n

In the second race it was Pony in the 90 car with 45 laps and Drew in the 72 car with 44.<\/p>\n

Both races went off without\u00a0a hitch\u00a0and the closest we came to an OOOPS was late in the first race when Pony in the 72 car\u00a0got into the grass coming off of the\u00a0last turn.\u00a0She was able to\u00a0recover\u00a0with no problem\u00a0but after race when she was in the pits\u00a0one of her tires blew out.\u00a0She literally drove the wheels off of her car.<\/p>\n

The High School class is improving and getting bigger\u00a0all the time.\u00a0The cars are getting better and the drivers are getting more experienced.\u00a0There was not a lot of difference between the Open and High School Class with the High School getting closer to the Open Class in overall performance.<\/p>\n

Our next race in at the Florida State Fairground.\u00a0We will\u00a0NOT be using last years course.\u00a0We will have a course picked out next week.<\/p>\n

Open Class\u00a0\u00a0 1st\u00a0 Tiger Racing 04 car 73 laps,\u00a02nd\u00a0 USF 132 car 68 laps<\/p>\n

Ex. Battery\u00a0\u00a0 1st\u00a0 Electrocutioners 90 car 90 laps,\u00a02nd\u00a0Electrocutioners 72 car\u00a0 89 laps<\/p>\n

High School\u00a0 1st Middleton 80 car 74 laps,\u00a02nd\u00a0Tampa Bay Tech 242,\u00a03rd Middleton 133 car,\u00a04th Simmons 53 car,\u00a05th Simmons 35 car,\u00a06th Brandon 14 car,\u00a07th Lennard 86 car,\u00a08th Brandon 09 car<\/p>\n

Stats for 2015-2016 After 7 Races-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time in Electrathon of Tampa Bay history\u00a0teams went for speed over endurance\u00a0but endurance did pop up in the first race.\u00a0The races were held on the flat\u00a01\/4 running track at Middleton High School. A normal race\u00a0day has two one hour endurance races.\u00a0This time around\u00a0the teams went for speed over a pair of 20 … Continue reading 7th Race Sets A New Standard<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2902,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions\/2902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/electrathonoftampabay.org\/www\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}