By: Kaelyn Fu
Ten brilliant students – Kyle Huryn, Ronak Nambiar, Alexey Pyekh, Farhan Shaikh, Connor Kassey, John Collins, Siddharth Chintalapalli, Bennett Tuck, Nikolas Kazachkov, and Sakina Chougle – banded together to form Vizion Racing, the first ever high school motorsports team. These dedicated students, motivated by their deep passions in engineering, decided to challenge themselves by building a formula style car with no prior experience, learning after each advancement how to do the next step and tackle setbacks.
These students were first introduced to motorsports last summer, when they were given the opportunity to work on a go-kart that the class of 2025 seniors were building. They successfully repaired the go-kart together and enjoyed the process so much that they wanted to start their own project in motorsports; building a formula car from scratch was the perfect next challenge.
Vizion Racing regularly documents their daily progress and their successes on their Instagram page: @vizion_racing. They are rapidly gaining traction and popularity online, growing to have more than 7000 people following their journey.
Currently, the team has made significant progress on building the car. So far, they have finished assembling the chassis, which is the metal cage that holds the engine, a radiator (which uses cool air to cool the engine), a 3D-printed fuel tank, and the suspension (which are the springs that allow the car to absorb impact). They are still finishing the attachment of electrical systems and wheels.
Overall, the team is the proudest of their successes and the progress they made on the car. As Alexey Pyekh, the Project Engineer, stated, “We never expected to get this far. We’re really proud of the work we put in, from the amount of effort it took, to the learning. It’s been so much fun just working on something that we like to do.”
Check out their website: vizionracing.com and their GoFundMe: gofund.me/0bed7472