A podium finish in the Green Power F24+ Challenge Final for the KSBMotorSport Racing Team...

Flickr album: KSBMotorSport GreenPower F24+ Final at Goodwood - 9th October 2022 | Height: auto | Theme: Default | Skin: Default Skin

Our journey as the KSBMotorSport team has been a long one, with many intense moments along the way, the result we have managed to achieve as a small team in our first year is incredible. On Sunday 9^th October we took our team and a group of spectators to Goodwood in order to compete in the International Final for the F24+ Racing Series, with an outstanding result of Third overall, we have achieved much more than anyone could believe when we took up this project just under 2 years ago. 

With a troublesome early start to the day, the organisation and skill of the whole team was really put to the test, and we all managed to show varying degrees of rapid problem solving and engineering style solutions to any issues that arose. Once we had arrived at the race track, we got everything set up in record time leading to us getting a full session on the practise laps, giving us useful and positive insights towards the race later on that day.

By the time we returned to the paddock from the practice session, and had finished preparing the car for the big event, our spectators arrived, providing immense amounts of moral support, and lifting the moods of the exhausted team ahead of the daunting race. And so the spectators went off to the viewing stands, and as crew, we then walked the car out onto the starting grid, performed all the final checks and retired to the control tower to watch the start.

From the moment the flags dropped it was a gripping race, with us making up many positions in the first lap, putting us in Fourth in our class. After just 4 laps, we also managed to overtake the car in front of us placing us in Third, which is where we then fought hard to remain, right up until the very end of the race, an intense and nerve-wracking 45 minutes later. With the 2022 Greenpower International Final completed, and with such an incredible result, the whole crew was elated with our final position, leading to many celebrations before and after the awards ceremony a few hours later.

This podium finish was very special for our founder and driver, Bertie, who’s late relative won a race at the very first Goodwood Revival in 1998.

This journey, with its humble beginnings, has ended up being a large and very influential part of our lives at school, and we speak for the whole team in saying that we have all gained valuable experience, both on and off the track, in engineering, aerodynamics, sponsor relations and many other areas. None of this would have been possible without our incredible group of sponsors, who’s funding, support, and advice is the key contributor that has allowed us to come this far, and progress so well. And so we here at KSBMotorSport have to give our thanks to all of the people who believed in us and allowed us to achieve this dream. Huge thanks to our sponsors:
interactiveschools.com, timhydethatching.co.uk, thefifearms.com, hra-sales.com and to Charlie Gallanaugh.

Another much deserved thanks, is to the rest of the team, we have all been so enthusiastic about this project from the day we started it and we truly do not believe that we would have managed these successes if anyone was not there, as we have all played crucial roles at varying points. Bertie (Team Principal & Driver), Jack (Driver), Luke (Aerodynamics Engineer), Harvey (Bodywork Engineer), Bodo (Engineer), Ben (Head of Sponsorship Relations and Engineer), Tia (Engineer) and Mr Hart (Team Supervisor).

Ben (U6^th Form Blackford House) & Bertie (U6^th Form New House)

It has been an amazing experience working with the KSBMotorSport Team this year and to see how much progress they made in a relatively short amount of time. The outstanding result they achieved at the Greenpower International Final at Goodwood was testimony to the focus, creative problem solving and effort they applied to every challenge they faced. Congratulations Team. You can be incredibly proud of what you have done.

Nick Hart - Head of Design & Technology

Click here to view the official Green Power International Final photographs