Bearings
BOCA hybrids
STEM RacingThe British School, New DelhiN!TRO × Energise × Radeon
Together we are N!TRO.
Five engineers, one CO₂-powered car and twenty metres of track that forgives nothing. Every gram argued for.
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01 — About
Three teams, one standard.
Team N!TRO represents The British School, New Delhi in STEM Racing — the competition most people still know as F1 in Schools. Each season starts with a block of polyurethane foam and a CO₂ cartridge, and ends with the fastest car we can defend in front of judges.
The work runs wider than the car: research, CAD, CFD, manufacture, testing, branding, enterprise and a presentation that has to hold up to questioning. In August 2026, N!TRO, Energise and Radeon merged — three rosters reduced to five specialists, under one rule: every detail must have a reason.
02 — Engineering
ORB!TUS DNA.
The car that took us from a first-season unknown to 10th in the country. Here is what it was made of — and what carries forward into the next one.
Body
Polyurethane foam
Wheels
7-spoke SLS nylon
Final mass
51 g
Race model
1.088 s
Manufacturing
CNC + MJF PA12
BOCA hybrid bearings
The race is won
in the bearings.
Ceramic balls running in steel races: harder, rounder and lighter than steel on steel, with less friction to lose as heat. The gain on any single run is small. Across a full round of heats, it is the difference between a fast car and a consistent one.
03 — Process
From question to car.
Four stages, run in order, every season. Nothing moves forward until the stage before it survives being questioned.
01
Research
The rulebook sets the boundaries. Last season's race data sets the targets.
02
Design
Parametric CAD, so nothing is drawn twice. Change one constraint, the whole body follows.
03
Test
CFD, smoke testing, then physical trials. The model stays a hypothesis until the track agrees.
04
Manufacture
CNC-machined foam and MJF-printed PA12 — where tolerances stop being theoretical.
04 — The team
Five specialists, no passengers.
Every person here holds two or three roles. On a team this size there is nowhere to hide, and nothing gets done twice.
01
Aariv
Marketing Manager · Sponsorship Manager · Digital Presence Lead
02
Aryeh
Manufacturing Engineer · Co-Design Engineer · Technical Lead
03
Rehnuma
Design Engineer · Co-Manufacturing Engineer
04
Vivaan
Aerodynamics Specialist · Non-Technical Lead · Resource Manager
05
Aarna
Project Manager · Graphic Designer · Portfolio Head
05 — Results
First season. Four results.
Every one of these came in our first year of competing, against teams that had been doing this for longer.
3rd
Regional Finals
Out of 57 teams
10th
National Finals
Out of 93 teams
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Team Identity Award
National Finals 2026
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Best Pit nomination
National Finals 2026
06 — Timeline
The first season.
Eleven months from the first meeting to the National Finals grid — and the merger that followed it.
Team N!TRO forms
Five people, a rulebook and a deadline. Roles assigned in the first week.
Identity goes live
Name, palette, logo and website — the identity that would later win an award at Nationals.
ORB!TUS begins
Research closes and the first parametric model opens. The car stops being an idea.
Regional Finals
3rd of 57, first time out. Enough to reach the National Finals.
Nationals development
Everything rebuilt for a bigger stage: car, portfolios, pit display, presentation.
National Finals
10th of 93. Team Identity Award won, Best Pit Display nominated.
Three become one
N!TRO, Energise and Radeon stop being three teams. Five specialists remain.
G-ORB!T
A new car, a merged team, and a result of our own to beat.
07 — Identity
Four signals. One identity.
The palette behind the identity that won Team Identity at the 2026 National Finals. Chosen once, used everywhere, never adjusted to suit a slide.
Olo
#00FFCCDiva Pink
#F04F6ALaser Beam
#223474Vanilla
#FFFFE108 — Sponsors
Backed by belief.
Sponsorship here is not decoration. It pays for material, machine time and the travel that gets the car to the grid.
09 — What's next
G-ORB!T is next.
ORB!TUS set the floor. G-ORB!T has to clear it — this time with three teams' worth of engineering behind one car.
01
New aero languageA cleaner relationship between body and floor, so air leaves the car with less of it wasted.
02
Smarter manufactureEvery feature matched to the process that can actually hold it — not the process we used last time.
03
One design loopThree teams' methods reduced to a single loop, where technical and enterprise decisions stop being separate conversations.
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or reach us at teamnitro.f1.stem@gmail.com