Cork students race into Formula One car design final

Imagine designing and building your own Formula One race car — and revving it right into the finals of a prestigious national competition!

Cork students race into Formula One car design final

That’s just what five west Cork schoolboys did with their miniature, air-powered Formula One racing car capable of travelling more than 110km an hour.

They used 3-D software to design the colourful carbon-dioxide-powered lean machine, and spent months tweaking the complex blueprint before having it carefully built to their specifications at the University of Limerick.

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