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Racing from the Classroom

Some of them are just undergraduate students at IIT-Delhi. But they have designed a formula-style racing car that will vie for honours at California later this year

Ever since Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone said New Delhi was capable of hosting a grand prix, diehard Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso fans have been wondering when they would feel the streets of Indias capital vibrating with the rattling power of the mean machines. Perhaps caught up in the excitement, a crop of youngsters have now come up with their own formula machine—not an F1 but a formula-style racer.

A team from IIT, Delhi, which calls itself AXLR8R (accelerator, in SMS lingo), has designed the racing car for the Formula SAE West competition in the US. The brain child of Nikhil Gupta, the project coordinator, the car hit the design board in December 2005. In June this year, the flashy red and black car will scorch the tarmac in Fontana, California.

More : indianexpress.com

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