Design of the racing car developed by the students of BIT-Sindri. Picture by Gautam Dey

They opened up roads for themselves, zooming to success in their All Terrain Vehicles (ATV) at SUPRA SAE India 2009 and 2010. But, they refused to stop at that milestone.

The latest offering on wheels from the budding techies of BIT-Sindri is a Free Style Formula Car, a mean racing machine that has made the cut to the final round of this year’s SUPRA SAE India event scheduled to be held in Chennai from July 6 to 9.

The car, christened Speedy Avenger, was the result of four-months of hard work by a 25-member team of undergraduate engineering students.

The students said that the design of the car was selected for the final round of this year’s racing event, after a presentation was made by five members of the Sindri team, in Pune on January 28 and 29.

The five, Vijay Kumar, Suman Saurabh, Prem Sanjit Sanga, Kumar Rahul and Sumit Khanna, dwelled on cost analysis, technical specifications and design validation plan during their presentation.

As many as 111 teams from across the country took part in the Pune round of the event after which 55 made the cut to the final round.

Speaking to The Telegraph after returning from Pune, team leader Vijay Kumar said the car would cost around Rs 2 lakh. The maximum speed of the vehicle would hover around 105kmph. “The vehicle will be around 150 inches in length and will roughly weigh 240kg. It will be powered by a 37BHP engine,” Kumar said.

Prodded about deviating from their forte of designing ATVs, Kumar said the idea was conceptualised after they finished runners-up in the 2011 leg of the BAJA SAE event. “We began work on the car in October last year and the design took four months to come up. We used Catia and Ansys software for drawing up the design,” Kumar said, adding that actual production work would start shortly.

The 25-member team comprises 16 mechanical engineering, six production engineering and three electronics and communication engineering students. He also acknowledged the contribution of two of their mentors — Ranjan Kumar and Manoj Kumar.