Journalism of Courage
Twelve teams from various institutes of the city designed racing cars from scrap beverage cans and raced them with remote controls on a proper miniature F1 track on Friday at the Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies,Vimannagar.
The budding auto-enthusiasts demonstrated their designs and engineering expertise while battling it out with each other on the race track. It was tailor-designed for the radio-controlled (RC) cars.
To ensure fairplay,the organisers of the event,Red Bull energydrink,provided similar chassis or the base of the cars to all theparticipants. It is a great opportunity for the students in India given the fact that motor sports is still too expensive to pursue, said actor VivanBhatena,who judged the event along with Siddharth Salian,owner of the only professional RC track in the country and Joel Xaviers,assistant,profession and incharge of the Training and Development Cell,Symbiosis Centre for Management Studies.
Xaviers looked into the technicalities of each of the design. We are giving preference to designs that are fabricated using basic nuts and bolts and not the taped ones, said Xaviers.
We kept in mind the Lamborghini while making it, said Aditya Abhyankar,a participant from MIT Institute of Design. Raymond
Buhariwala and Yazad Bharucha from Indira College,won the championship. They are scheduled to compete with the finalists selected from across the country. The country winners will meet theworldwide qualifiers at the Milton Keynes,United Kingdom.
