[EricH]

If somebody had a 25 mph robot, they were going way too fast. That's about 36-37 feet per second, which puts you into the diamond plate on the other end before you even get up to speed. (54-foot field, minus about 3 feet for the robot length means that you hit at 1.39 seconds, and that's some killer acceleration, about 26 ft/second^2 or 0.818 g's.) 25 ft/second is more likely; few did that.

Now, the drag race winner was team 102, Gearheads. I'm not sure how fast their robot went, though.