Investigating

The product will be a CO2 powered formula 1 car which is Planned, designed, created and evaluated. The F1 car made out of a block of balsa wood will race down a 20m track and it will also be timed. The F1 Car has requirements and guidelines that have to be met. The time set to complete the task was from Monday week 7 term 1 to Monday week 7 term 2. The product will be manufactured with the use of Autodesk, Denford REA (Re- Engineering Australia) milling machine, Virtual wind tunnel, 3D Printer, Art and Design Laboratory, Digital Camera, sandpaper and paint. After the presentation that Peter Brown gave, I rethought my design of how my car will perform and the features it will have to help increase its performance. One thing that Peter Brown said that stood out for me was that, the car doesn't need to be the same as an F1 car because the scenario and conditions that it races in is completely different, it needs to be based more around a land speed record car. With this knowledge I am going to base mine on a tadpole streamlined design which has a drag coefficient of .04.The car will be represented with a basic colour scheme that is bright and will turn heads.

Formula 1 Car	- Use	Land Speed Record Car	- Use
Rear wing	Traction, stability	Pointy Nose	aerodynamics
Front wing	Traction, stability	Long	Aerodynamics, stability
Low COG	High speed cornering