Day 10: AND THEY'RE OFF

or "BUT FIRST"
or "now I am just avoiding doing day 10.5's work"

So we worked on building that 1:18 train
and we worked and we worked and a tonne of iterations later
we had a thing that looked much like this-

a monster

and stalled.
with more torque it STALLED.
so we loosened everything to eliminate friction,
and then it STILL accelerated less than the 1:15 train.
so that was fun,

we went back to the 1:15 train-
and updated the structure a bit
then managed 3rd place in the final race with a time of 7.96s
pretty okay, pretty okay.