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Phoenix Racing is a student motorsport program built like a miniature race team. We’re six students competing in STEM Racing’s Development Class. Our job is simple to say and hard to do: design, build, and race a faster, regulation-compliant car—and turn that work into pathways for younger students to enter engineering.

Our Purpose

We exist to do two things well:

1. Compete seriously. Treat STEM Racing like a small professional program: scoped goals, schedules, quality gates, and data behind every decision.

2. Open the paddock. Use our platform to run free school workshops and show students—especially girls and other underrepresented motorsport fanatics—that they belong in engineering and motorsport.

What We Do

• Concept → CAD → Validation. Parametric CAD drives fast iteration. Each concept must clear basic manufacturability, compliance, and performance screens before moving forward.

• Analysis that earns its keep. We use simulation and testing to compare designs, not decorate slides: consistent domains, mesh-independence checks, and repeatable measurements.

• Manufacture like it matters. CNC/3D-printed bodies, tolerance checks, finishing and re-weighs; spares for parc fermé peace of mind.

• Track, measure, learn. IR timing, split gates on our practice lane, and high-speed video for launch and stability diagnostics. Every test produces a decision.

How We Build (our engineering playbook)

• Requirements first. We start from the rulebook and a performance target, then write our own acceptance criteria (mass, Cd trend, stability margin, quality checks).

• Design of experiments. Bodies and wings are varied systematically (incidence, chord/thickness, camber, endplate geometry). We evaluate families, not one-offs.

• Simulation discipline. Consistent boundary conditions, moving ground, and force-monitor convergence; verification runs on the final car.

• Quality gates. At the end of each stage (concept, CAD, CFD screen, prototype, final) we hold a short review: keep, fix, or kill.

• Evidence log. Each decision gets a short entry: objective, method, result, and impact on the car. It keeps us honest and makes our portfolio readable.

What Sets Us Apart

• Serious process at student scale. Timelines, owners, risk registers, and post-mortems—because good teams are built, not wished into existence.

• Clarity over noise. We’d rather show one clean comparison that changes a decision than twenty pretty pictures that don’t.

• Inclusion as a practice. Four girls and two boys on the team; workshops designed for beginners; role-modeling that is visible, kind, and technically solid.

Season Plan (at a glance)

• Design & validation: concept families → short list → final assembly check.

• Manufacture & finishing: body, wheels/axles, assembly jigs, decals, spares.

• Testing: lane setup, calibration, repeat runs, fault-find, re-test.

• Competition readiness: compliance pass, documentation, pit display.

• Outreach: 6+ school sessions (ages 11–16) with hands-on mini-labs.

For Partners

We work with partners who care about education, engineering rigor, and representation.

What partners receive

• Brand-safe placements (car, pit display, team wear, portfolio, website) with pre-approved mockups.

• Co-created, classroom-friendly content (short reels, photos) you can reuse.

• Access to testing days (subject to event rules) and simple, honest reporting.

What partners enable

• Better engineering (prototype cycles, verification runs).

• Stronger presence at events (professional displays, spare parts, transport).

• Real outreach (free workshops, materials, and teacher support).

Governance & Compliance

• We comply with all event regulations and safety rules.

• Every external asset—logos, captions, placements—follows the partner’s brand guide and is approved before use.

• We do not fundraise or make product claims on a partner’s behalf.