Wawasee Super Mileage Cars

Written on April 1, 2014 by Staff Reporter

Categories: News Archive 2014

Tags: best area gas prices, communications tower in Syracuse, diesel, Lucas Oil Raceway Park, Shell Eco-marathon Americas, super mileage cars, Wawasee High School

Kneeling in front, from left, are Colfax Cannaday, Ben Slabaugh, Randy Ricci, Luke Smith, Emma Rager, Blake O’Connell, Paige Hlutke, Sam Rookstool and Austin Yoder. Standing in the second row are Austin Trowbridge, Josh Tucco, Riley Johnston, Ethan Brown, Kevin Carpenter, Jacob Tucco, Brandon Fox, Austin Lemberg and Allen Coblentz, faculty advisor. In the back row are Austin DeValk, Doug Hapner, Chase Corrigan, Brayton Fretz, Nathan Allen and Evan Ranzfranz.

Wawasee High School will again enter competitions this year with super mileage cars worked on by engineering students.

From April 24-27, Wawasee will enter gas and diesel cars in the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition in Houston, Texas. Then, on April 28, it’s on to the Lucas Oil Raceway Park in Indianapolis for a competition with a gas car.

The goal this year is for the diesel car to break 1,500 miles per gallon and for the gas cars to break 1,000 miles per gallon.