A TEAM of four students from a school in Odiham raced to third place in a motorsport show.

The students from Robert May’s School took part in the Lenovo F1 in Schools UK National Finals 2022 last week at Autosport International.

The event is a motorsport show held at the NEC Birmingham. Their success has won them a place at the Aramco F1 in Schools World Finals 2023 to be staged in Singapore alongside the Formula 1 Singapore Airlines Grand Prix 2023.

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The Lenovo F1 in Schools UK National Finals 2022 spanned two days of intense competition with a team from Queen Elizabeth Grammar School taking the UK Champions crown.

The Robert May’s School, Odiham team, Imperium, were on the podium in third place and also Lightning Reaction Time Award, Team Identity Award, Scrutineering Award and Best Engineered Car Award. They were also nominated for the Portfolio Award and Research and Development Award. 

In second place was Honeycomb Racing, a team of students from James Gillespie’s High School, Edinburgh. 

Andrew Denford, founder and chairman, F1 in Schools summed up the Lenovo F1 in Schools UK National Finals 2022.

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He said: “After two days of judging and racing for the competing teams it all came down to the wire and we crowned our Lenovo F1 in Schools UK Champions 2022. The judges were given a massive challenge by the outstanding work of these teams, with so much effort, passion, creativity and skill put into producing some of the most innovative designs of F1 in Schools scale-model Formula 1 cars of the future. 

“All the teams are winners for reaching the National Finals and for taking on the challenge presented by F1 in Schools. It is great to see them learning so much from the project, not just academically but also in the life skills they acquire in the process of competing and sharing their experience with their peers. We hope that many of them will use the experience in their future careers and benefit from participating in the competition. For the teams who have won through to our World Finals – see you in Singapore.”