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Archive for the ‘Car Progress’ Category

Continued Work

September 21st, 2010 | Author: Alex

Today was one of those satisfying days where a solid amount of progress was done, without any one aspect particularly standing out. The car is slowly but meticulously being repaired, and given what's at stake, we're loathe to rush things whereby mistakes are more likely to be made. As work continued, evidence of the car's sound ...

Posted in Car Progress, Chile, Colombia, News, Pan-Am Highway

A Work in Progress

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Alex

With yesterday's good news, we were eager to carry on working on the car in order to have it ready in time to leave Cartagena on Friday. As we have learnt time and time again on this project though, absolutely everything takes longer than expected, and yesterday was no different, so time was of the ...

Posted in Car Progress, Colombia, Pan-Am Highway

Work Starts on Repairing the Car

September 19th, 2010 | Author: Alex

As we now had a place to secure the car, it was just waiting to be fixed and be back on the road! We were determined to get it repaired as soon as possible, so by 8am on Sunday morning we were up and ready to get going! Nik and Toby went for the morning ...

Posted in Car Progress, Colombia, Pan-Am Highway

Getting Ourselves Back On Track

September 18th, 2010 | Author: Alex

The most important thing we needed right now was a clean, dry and secure place in which we could work on the car and get it fixed. Without this, we would simply not be able to make any progress in fixing the car's ailments. In addition, we also needed a place for us to stay ...

Posted in Car Progress, Colombia, Pan-Am Highway

Beautiful day, beautiful drive

April 8th, 2010 | Author: Alex
Everyone doing their bit while the car's on the dyno

For anyone in England on April 8th 2010, you will know of the beautiful weather we had on this day, and how it seemed to categorically signal the end of winter, and the start of those glorious summer days which seem forever just around the corner. So, it was in this extremely buoyant and optimistic mood ...

Posted in Car Progress, News

SRZero Gets Some New Wheels!

March 30th, 2010 | Author: Alex
New rims on the car and in the foreground

Another few days have passed and yet more has happened in the world of Racing Green Endurance! On Wednesday 22nd we took the car back up to Peterborough to put the final touches to the car and to put the car through some testing on Radical's dynamometer. So, over the last few days ...

Posted in Car Progress, News

The car runs!

March 24th, 2010 | Author: Alex
Front pose

If there was ever a blog entry that I have wanted to write more than this one, I certainly can't think of it! At 1.10am 21st March, the SRZero drove under its own power for the very first time! However, soon after, we ran into problems with electromagnetic interference (EMI) and had to ...

Posted in Car Progress, News

Production Line

February 22nd, 2010 | Author: Alex
RGE

With the car needing to be finished ASAP, we drafted in Andy and Clemens today to help speed up progress on the car. While they are both excellent engineers in their respective fields, they haven't been involved in the day-to-day engineering of the project so far. However, we all arrived nice and early ...

Posted in Car Progress

Prepping the car for Autosport

December 24th, 2009 | Author: Alex
IMG_0090

With only 3 weeks to go now until Autosport International (the largest motorsport exhibition in the world), the team has been busy preparing the car for exhibition. We will be displaying our car on the Radical stand alongside some of there very impressive vehicles including the SR8 which recently smashed the Nurburgring Nordschleife (see ...

Posted in Car Progress, Events

Arrival of NI Hardware

October 26th, 2009 | Author: Alex
Opening the Box

Today a large shipment of control hardware arrived from National Instruments today. NI kindly sponsored a whole range of equipment including a CompactRio, touchscreen and modules for the CompactRio, and the team (especially Alec and Toby) are itching to play with them! This equipment is effectively the brain of the car, and will be programmed ...

Posted in Car Progress
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