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April 2008 - Corporate Challenge
Bentley's press release following our first race...
Bentley Racing Green
Crewe, Monday 28th April 2008… A Bentley Motors apprentice team has won a special "Spirit of Greenpower" award for its performance in the Greenpower Corporate Challenge which took place at Goodwood race circuit yesterday. The Bentley apprentice team designed, engineered and built the electric powered car which they entered into the Greenpower Challenge as well as a season of "F24+" racing.
The Bentley team achieved their goal of completing the four hour race, despite some technical difficulties in the first section. The award was given in recognition of their excellent team spirit which they showed in overcoming these initial technical challenges.
Having taken the initiative themselves to compete in the Greenpower challenge the apprentices have devoted weekends and evenings for the past ten months taking full responsibility for all aspects of the car's development. Three team members acted as drivers on race day, the rest of the team provided essential back-up support in the pits.
April 2008
We have run several tests and drivers are becoming familiar with how the car handles. We hope to run once more before Friday when we will load our vehicle and head to Goodwood for the Corporate challenge on Sunday.
March 2008
The car ran for the first time today on the car park at Bentley Motors before suffering a problem with the drive shaft, we will replace the drive shaft and run again as soon as possible.
January 2008
We have now managed to obtain both the carbon fibre body and the suspension beams we will be using, By the end of the month we also had our machined components from our tool room and the steering rack we have imported from America, Our drivetrain partner ATC Nuvinci have also provided a special race spec gearbox which will provide us with a low weight CVP gearbox system, Electronically we have a "phase 1" system being built with some of the features we expect to be in the completed car.
November 2007
The prototype body is now complete and is currently with our carbon fibre experts at "SPA". We hope to have the finished carbon body early in December. In the meanwhile a chassis rig is being built to simulate our body to review both suspension and drive train designs.
October 2007
The prototype fibreglass body is currently being modified extensively to accept all of our equipment, Suspension components are being produced in SLS and electronics are being ordered as we speak!
