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Re: Examples of when it is not advantageous to be lightweight

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Originally Posted by MooreteP View Post
Team 148, OverDrive, won Einstein.
Low CoG, very effective at lapping. Different from everyone else.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fLf71xlVhE
I was just about to chime in that for bleedingly-high speeds it only makes sense to have an extremely light robot. Though the necessity for such a specialized robot is quite rare, historically.