Competition
Inspire future engineers! Students design, build, and race remote control cars, gaining hands-on STEM experience and career insights.
Secondary
The S-RC Cup is an exciting remote control motorsport competition that engages students in STEM, problem-solving, and teamwork.
Bring your students together to form a team to design, build, and race their own remote control racing car. They'll compete against other schools from across the UK in regional challenges to win the 2026 S-RC Cup and a trip to a racing event at Silverstone!
Connecting students with STEM professionals, volunteer engineers, and university mentors, the S-RC Cup provides insight into engineering, aerodynamics, and vehicle dynamics. By tackling real-world challenges, students gain practical experience that mirrors professional motorsport and automotive engineering.
Alongside the competition, the S-RC Education Programme helps students develop their skills in engineering, business, and motorsport through interactive learning, workshops, and real-world applications - all packaged into an online course.
To create their racers, teams can choose a kit car or use the supplied CAD files, basic tools, and 3D printing to engineer and build their own.
Whatever their STEM interests, the S-RC Cup can offer students valuable skills and careers inspiration, so why not get involved and bring STEM and motorsport learning to life in your school!
Teams
Schools can enter a team of 6 students in one of the below configurations:
Cost
The S-RC Cup competition is free to enter. There is a cost of around £200 to build the car, which teams are encouraged to fundraise or seek sponsorship for. Students are provided with support and resources from the S-RC Cup team to do this.
Locations and dates
The competition is open to schools throughout the UK. There are 5 regional challenge locations: south west, far west, south east, midlands, north. Teams must be able to travel to their nearest challenge.
Key competition dates are:
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Improve engagement, interest or enjoyment in STEM subjects
Learning what the engineering workplace is like
Develop engineering employability skills
Improve awareness and aspirations for STEM-related study and careers
Challenge stereotypes by showing the diversity of disciplines, people and skills involved in engineering
The Gatsby benchmarks are a framework for good careers guidance for schools across all of England and in some areas across the rest of the UK. This experience helps your school to reach the following benchmarks:
The essential skills every young person needs to succeed in education and their future career. Find out more at the Skills Builder Partnership. This experience builds the following skills:
Aiming high - the ability to set clear, tangible goals and devise a robust route to achieving them.
Creativity - the use of imagination and the generation of new ideas.
Leadership - supporting, encouraging and motivating others to achieve a shared goal.
Listening - the ability to listen and understand information.
Problem solving - the ability to find a solution to a complex situation or challenge.
Speaking - the oral transmission of information or ideas.
Staying positive - the ability to use tactics to overcome setbacks and achieve goals.
Teamwork - working cooperatively with others towards achieving a shared goal.
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