With the huge popularity of cricket over here, whenever a high profile game takes place the country near enough shuts down. It almost seems like a public holiday with the usually busy streets emptying as everyone crowds around the nearest TV. On this occasion, India were in the semi final of a world cup they haven’t won since 1982, playing against their biggest rivals, Pakistan. Imagine an England vs Germany semi-final at Wembley, then multiply the number of fans by 25! The atmosphere was awesome!

As the game lasted most of the day, any thought of building the car was left until the evening. We had a fairly relaxed day watching the cricket with the locals exchanging banter over England crashing out to Sri Lanka. India progressed to the final setting up what will surely be a carnival atmosphere for our last full day on Saturday.

The game was wrapped up by about 10pm so we met with the team to work on the car over the night. We concentrated on progressing a few areas of their design including the steering and wheel assembly. The team were looking to include a universal joint similar to our system, so we discussed ways of incorporating it into their design to minimise weight.

There was further discussion regarding the shocks and bell crank design, where we brainstormed a number of ideas. Having both worked on this area of the Warwick car, we were able to offer quite a lot of assistance. In the early hours of the morning, we left the workshop hoping to finalise the designs and begin manufacture tomorrow.