In the immortal words of the Freddie Mercury of Queen “We are the champions, again”.

The 2013 cohort of five teams headed to Kingswood to the University of Western Sydney to compete in the NSW F1 in Schools State Finals with teams competing in all classes, Cadet, Development, Junior and Senior Professional classes.

The competition is run over two days and consists of Automatic Racing, Reaction Racing, Engineering Evaluation, an  eight minute Team Collaboration and Marketing Presentation, Scrutineering Feedback, Pit and Portfolio Assessment and the all important Grand Prix Racing.

I am pleased to report that Friction are the NSW Cadet Class State Champions and Quantum are the Development Class State Runners Up for 2013. This continues our success at State level to four years in succession. The boys also won nine awards in total, they include: Zipper Effect (Best Marketing), Vector (Best Engineered Car), Quantum (Best Engineered Car & Best Team Pit Display) Mach 7 (Best Designed Car) and Friction (Fastest Lap & Best Poster).

We would like to recognise the fantastic support and crucial value adding from the following: 3D Scanning Australia, Alliance Catering, Arts Spot, Auto One, Canterbury Ice Rink, CB squared, ESR Prestige, Flying Fish (The Dedes Group), Fuji Xerox, Guardian Funerals, InterCAD, Rainbow Display Systems, Re-Engineering Australia Foundation, Roland, Savage Engineering, Sydney City Toyota and the Newington College Technology Department.

NSW State Competing Team Members:

Zipper Effect – Alastair Bate (10/ME), Felix Shannon (10/PR), Ashan Karunagaran (10/KL), Thomas Creevey (10/ME) and Anooj Ghadge (10/MA)

Vector – Sam Gilfedder (9/MO), Peter Ioannou (9/PR), Sebastian Iannuzzi (9/MO), and Dion Riotto (9/KL)

Quantum – Evan Favos (8/ME), Anton Maraldo (8/ME), Sebastian Hodge (8/ME) and Roger Li (8/FL)

Friction – Adam Martin (7/JN), Adam Brown (7/KL) and Riley Vaughan (7/MO)

Mach 7 – Nick Sims (7/LE), Angus Mueller (7/MO) and Cooper Gee (7/JN).

F1 in Schools