Now we have a “new” engine and next we need to start taking the old one out to see what went wrong in the last race. Stay tuned for more and please support us by buying our merchandise! 🙂
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Software developing
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Road to Gatebil with Monster Energy
The long weekend that begun for us last tuesday is almost over, we’re now on our way home with approximately 800km and a 12-hour ferry from home.
Steering angle locked n’ loaded
A picture of the final steering angle for 2012 as promised. As for the rest of the car updates will be coming everyday we have something to write about so stay tuned (tell your friends ;). Some more great news is that our racing team now officially is a registered association, we hope this will…
Camber, caster, toe what?
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Status update on the piston-melter.
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