Myself with some of my friends went to IIT-B for participating in an event there for TECHFEST.. their Technical Festival. During 20-22nd Jan.
we were to participate in the Ultimate racing competition of the year, our own Indianised RC DRAGS Competition.
We boarded the Viramgam Passenger for MUMBAI on 19th night. The train infamous for being late and taking double time than other trains on the same route. The Tain came an hour late as was expected of it. anyways, we got onto it at surat, after that, once inside the train, we got the bedding etc out and sat discussing about our prospects of competing against the best of the best in Asia. and went to sleep around midnight. the train reached its destination at 6AM on 20th. and suddenly we were in the thick of a commotion to get out of the train.
We did anyhow, we deboarded the train, and went to the other platform to catch our next connecting Local.
When we reached the IIT-B Hostels, we were kindda exhausted with the effort.Anyways...
at around 9 we had our breakfast and then went to see the arena... we were queqed for 10.30 the other day. So we practiced a bit, fine tuned the machine, and then went for a stroll... we visited arena for many other competitions.
Next day we went to the arena an hour and half before our scheduled time. we checked and rechecked our every part of the machine, which was a car (built using a Engine(diesel)) and to our utter horror, we found that a particular bolt was damaged and needed to be replaced, the calm changed into turbulance...and suddenly we were all doing this and that, luckily we found a shop and bought the required part and replaced it, but our bad time was not over yet...
Now the clutch mechanism was giving us jitters... Somehow we managed to mend the things. and we went in the arena for the elimination round which was a one-on-one challange... we prayed, and started our engines, pushed the accelerator and waited for the countdown... and 3...2...1...GO... God be praised... the machine ran perfectly and we won that particular part... now we waited... for the results to be announced the following day...
God be praised again, we made it to the top, we were amongst the top 30 Teams selected out of a total of 300 Teams which participated...
