This is the first contest to decide who will advance to the finals. The Mulewrights will be locked in a race against The McCarknow Clan to see who can build the better hill climber. The course is a 1 to 2 hill (about 66 degrees, I think) with each team getting three attempts to get to the top. If there is a tie in the number of times each team makes it to the top, according to official rally rules, the team that made it to the top first is the winner.
The McCarknow Clan are going to build a light-weight hill stormer that will rocket up the first part of the hill then crawl it's way to the finish. They'll need a small vehicle and a big engine, but not too big. Sounds simple but they plan to turn the engine sideways, put it inthe middle of the truck and have it run all 4 wheels at once. Essentially, they want to make their own four-wheel drive system. Their major problems will be finding an engine and over-coming an untested design.
The Mulewrights will stick with a tried-and-true
hill climber design. With a big enough truck that has a beefy engine, they're
going to attach tracks to it. Each track will be massively long and require
a LOT of work to attach the treads and guides. Time will be the biggest
obstacle they'll face...even bigger than the hill!
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