The results conducted from race day were as follows:
Best distance - 22.2 meters, a new school record! (1st place)
Drag time - 5:53 seconds. (5th place)
- How would you modify your car design if you had the opportunity? If I could modify anything no our current design, I would cut out a notch in the mouse trap (side closest to the axle) to reduce friction on the string.
- What might you do differently if you could build a new car? I was quite impressed with our design of mousetrap car. If I had the choice, I would probably stick to the same design, just use bigger wheels. Another thing that I would consider is lighter materials. Example: aluminum axle instead of brass. The only thing that I could not make lighter would be the chassis. If I made the chassis any lighter, the mousetrap would spin around the axle when set off.
- What could be tweaked to make your car perform better? One thing that we could have done to improve the performance of our mousetrap car would be to use bigger wheels to increase the final drive, or maybe a stronger string as our previous string broke.
Video's & Photo's from test day:
