The story of an Underdog

In the 3 o'clock competition yesterday, October 12th, our team won first runner up in the real competition, most aggressive, and first runner up in straightest car. Although these statistics make us seem successful from the beginning, our car and this race illustrated a true underdog story.

(here is a picture of our amazing award winning steam car)

As usual, the car did not quite run like it did in the tests. The first part of the competition started (the competition to see who's turbine rotated three times first), and our turbine only moved half a rotation. We never foresaw a problem before that.

We discovered that the third wick had not been lighted in the lighting process, and that the wick closest to us was burning from the bottom. Our car became a fuel-eating machine (as one of the judges said- like an SUV). There our failure became a success- we just needed to add more fuel, more times than usual.

Success!