![]() ![]() "It was pretty awesome to receive that permission from. The team even got permission to base their car's livery on that of Munro's bike. It helped that all of the team members were big fans of Munro, the New Zealander whose story of setting a land speed record on his Indian Scout motorcycle, was immortalised in the movie The World's Fastest Indian, Ferguson said. as well as composites - which is carbon fibre - and we decided these two elements are really lending themselves to a land speed attempt, being lightweight and being in the electric field, so that's kind of what set us on our track." "We do a lot of work with electric vehicles. ![]() He said the decision to build a car capable of attempting an electric land speed record was based on the various strengths of the team's 16 members, who all study either mechanical engineering, electrical engineering or mechatronics. "It's no easy feat to build a car in a year and a lot of us commit a lot of time and extra effort to this project to make it possible." The university's motorsport team principal Kaenan Ferguson told Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan the build was part of the students' final year project but the team's dedication went well beyond a quest for academic success. Photo: University of Canterbury Motorsport Club
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