Karthikeyan Unveils F1 Car Built By Bombay Students

Mar 31, 2008

States Rishabh Bhandari, the overall coordinator and the brain behind IIT Powai’s dream machine, “About a year ago, while I was interning with Maruti in Delhi, I interacted with the students from IIT Delhi’s team, who had participated in the competition before and gained some much-needed experience.

The team spends 25 hours every week on the car and in the winter vacations they ended up working for around 15 hours a day.

Rishabh, “We started work on designing and fabrication simultaneously, as we had inputs from our interaction with the teams who had participated earlier that they had last minute problems as they spent too much time on designing and less on fabrication. One important thing we did, and maintained all throughout, was to constantly take feedback from experts, which helped us in complex fabrications. As of now, we are just finishing the final designing and fabrication of the car.” Mumbai Pluses

Students at IIT Bombay have built a formula-racing car for an international competition to be held in the US in May
These spirited youngsters will be the only Indians participating in this prestigious international competition to be held in Detroit – the Mecca of the international automobile industry.
Shyam, SAE Formula participant, said, “We aim to compete with the best in the world and experience some great engineering.
Narain Karthikeyan, Indian car racer, said, “ the sport has been getting more popular…and this will give more exposure.” Money Control