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Greenpower Kit Car competition heads to Gateshead Stadium
Children from primary schools across the North East will test their engineering skills on the track at Gateshead International Stadium
The Reece Foundation North East Goblin Event takes place on 19th May, where teams of school children will put the electric Greenpower Goblin Kit Cars they have built through their paces on the stadium racetrack.
The event is an opportunity to meet and compete with other school teams and share in the excitement of taking part in this live sporting event.
The race day is organised by the charity Greenpower Education Trust, with backing from the Reece Foundation. Greenpower helps get young people into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths( STEM) through a team challenge. School teams assemble electric kit cars and compete them at venues around the UK and abroad.
Greenpower Goblin Kit Cars are designed to be built and driven by teams of school children aged 9 to 11. Schools can run the project as part of the Design and Technology curriculum.
Spectators are welcome to attend the event at Gateshead stadium, which is free of charge. Team challenge heats begin at 10.15am after scrutineering and the team briefing.
Greenpower also holds Formula 24 events for 11- to 16-yearolds and Formula 24 + events for 16- to 25-year-olds. Over 10,000 students take part each year.
There are sponsorship and volunteering opportunities and other ways to get involved. For more information see www. greenpower. co. uk
New Autotest records set
Steven Ferguson competed in his first season in Autotesting in 1999. Wins in the Beginner and Semi-Expert sections in his first couple of years, moved him to the Saloon Car class in the main Northern Ireland( NI) Championship.
Switching to a Mini Special, Ferguson moved into topline competition with several former Champions included in the opposition. He was soon setting competitive test times and then winning events outright.
A run of six consecutive NI Championship wins from 2018- 2024, brought Fergusons’ s NI total to 10 – making him the first driver to win six NI Championships in a row, and the first driver to win 10 NI Championships.
Ferguson’ s calm temperament and ability led to his first NI Championship win in 2010, but this was just the beginning. In 2011 he went in search of the‘ treble’ – claiming the NI, Republic of Ireland Hewison, and British Championships in the same year, joining John Lyons and Sam Bowden on that elite list of winners. In 2012, he went one better, winning four major titles, by repeating the treble and adding the British Trials and Rally Drivers Association title. Ferguson is the only person to achieve this so far.
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Steven Ferguson is the first driver to win six NI Championships in a row, and the first driver to collect 10 NI Championships
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