Coimbatore :

All 30 participants who enrolled for the National Radio Controlled Car Racing championship were qualified on Friday for the main events to be held on Saturday and Sunday.

All 30 of them maneuvered their cars through the laps within the minimum time during the qualifying rounds held on day one of the championship.

The championship, being held at GEEDEE driving institute in Eachanari, will see engineering students actually build or buy a car which can be radio controlled and guiding it through the many laps. The driving institute has a special track where you can take a radio controlled car and race them.

The cars are usually an eighth of the size of a normal car, and except a gearbox, will contain all the features of a real car. The cars, which run on methanol, can touch a speed of up to 120 kmph and can rise from 0 to 100 kmph in just three seconds.

The competition was created by the Coimbatore Radio Control Racers Association along with the Kovai Modelers Club to get more youngsters interested in automobile engineering, car building and also have a lot of fun. It will also expose mechanical, electrical and electronic engineering students to the fundamentals of automobile engineering.

The actual races will be held on Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 5pm.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / News Home> City> Coimbatore / by Pratiksha Ramkumar, TNN / August 14th, 2015