Nexa Racing AX-07 — black-and-lime carbon livery

NEXA // RACING TEAM

A student-led engineering squad designing, milling and racing CO₂-powered miniature F1 cars down a 20-metre strip of tarmac — where a thousandth of a second is the difference between a trophy and a reset button.

Inspect The Car Meet The Crew
0.000s PERSONAL BEST · 20M DRAG

Numbers
don't blink.

A car measured in grams, driven by gas pressure, and judged in thousandths. Every component is a negotiation between aerodynamic drag, structural weight, and cold-start CO₂ thrust. These are the numbers we keep returning to.

01 · TOP SPEEDKM/H
0.0
Measured by light-gate across the exit line.
02 · RACE TIMESEC · 20m
0.000
Personal best. Current season, home track.
03 · CHASSISGRAMS
0
Balsa-foam composite, CNC-cut in one pass.
04 · ITERATIONSCOUNT
0
Prototypes run through the wind tunnel this year.

THE MACHINE
CALLED AX-07

CURRENT RACE CAR · SEASON 02 Aether X-07 "Locust"
Side profile of the Nexa Racing AX-07 F1 race car
Front Wing Primary Aerofoil · 3-Element First surface to meet the air. Splits flow above the floor and below the chassis — defines every vortex downstream.
Front Tire Composite Wheel · 2.1g 3D-printed PLA hub with CNC-machined urethane tire. Bearing pre-load tuned per run.
Nose & Monocoque Milled Balsa-Composite Single billet, one-pass CNC. 0.35mm wall at the apex. Carries the entire chassis load through the driver cell.
Halo & Driver Cell Safety Cage · Mandatory Regulation-required roll structure. The driver figurine must be fully enclosed — a rulebook constraint, not a styling choice.
CO₂ Chamber 8g Cartridge Bay · 8.25 bar Seated directly above the centre of mass. Pierced at T-0. Peak thrust at 40ms, exhausted by 180ms.
Side Pod Thermal Fairing Shrouds the CO₂ reaction bay. Surface optimised to keep flow attached all the way to the rear axle.
Venturi Floor Ground-Effect Channels Underfloor tunnels accelerate airflow to generate low-pressure downforce — zero drag penalty.
Rear Tire Drive Wheel · Tether-Guided Low-friction PTFE eyelets route the tether through the rear axle. Lateral tolerance: ±0.02mm.
Rear Wing Laminar Profile · 12° AoA CFD-optimised for minimum induced drag. Reduces rear-end vortex shedding by 14% vs. stock geometry.
Length
210mm
Mass
53.0g
Propellant
CO₂ 8g
Drag Coefficient
0.27
Material
Balsa composite
Top Speed
78.4km/h

The
Crew.

SCROLL
01
Team Principal · Aerodynamics Lead
Gaurav Rajpal
02
CAD Lead
Andrei Pokotylo
03
Marketing & Outreach
Jahan Marbin

From napkin sketch
to finish line.

A full season compresses the real engineering loop — research, CAD, simulation, manufacture, test, iterate — into six public milestones. Here is ours, in order.

01 · R&D
Research
Tear apart last season's telemetry. Re-read the regulations cover-to-cover. Map every gram, every mm, and every margin the rulebook still leaves unclaimed.
Phase 01Sept
02 · CAD
Design
Fusion 360 from the first datum. Parametric body, swappable wings, driver-customisable ballast. Every revision is versioned, tagged, and stress-tested on paper before it touches a mill.
Phase 02Oct
03 · CFD
Simulate
Wind-tunnel virtualisation at 30 m/s. We chase laminar flow along the upper shell and trap turbulence in the pod wake, not the rear wing.
Phase 03Nov
04 · CNC
Manufacture
One billet. One pass. A 3-axis CNC strips 83% of the block away in 42 minutes. Hand-finish, paint, apply livery — all in-house.
Phase 04Jan
05 · LAB
Test
A 20m indoor track. High-speed capture @ 960fps. Every run is logged, every failure is a datum. We hunt hundredths, not tenths.
Phase 05Feb
06 · GO
Race
National heats. Regional finals. One cartridge, twenty metres, no second chances. Then — repeat.
Phase 06Mar

Race logS03

No sanctioned runs yet. The lab is loud, the mill is warm, and the first heat is on the horizon.

STATUS · PRE-SEASON // TELEMETRY OFFLINE

Season starting soon.

We're still in the workshop — milling, simulating, and shaving grams off the AX-07. Race times will land here as soon as the lights go green.

Season
03 · 2026
Status
Pre-Season
First Heat
TBA
Updates
via partner@nexa.team
"We build cars that exist for one second. That one second has to be indistinguishable from six months of patient, stubborn engineering."
— Team doctrine, pinned to the workshop wall
PARTNERSHIP · OPEN

Your logo.
Our car.
20 metres of stage.

We don't have partners yet. That's not a problem — that's a negotiation. Claim the first square inch of our bodywork before someone else does, and put your brand where the cameras are already pointing.

03 zones · 03 tiers · all placements currently available Accepting enquiries · Season 03
01 · ENTRY TIERFRONT WING
Crew

The entry lane. The quiet commitment. For partners who want in early.

  • Logo on team workshop uniform
  • Named in every post-race write-up
  • Listed in website partner roll
  • Invitation to home-track test day
02 · MID TIERSIDE POD
Co-Pilot

Visible on every run, photographed from every angle, mentioned in every report.

  • Everything at Crew tier
  • Logo on side-pod bodywork
  • Feature in our season-recap film
  • Quarterly engineering briefings
  • Priority first-refusal on Season 04
Primary
03 · TITLE TIERREAR WING
Title Partner

First photo, last frame, every timing screen. The name on the car.

  • Everything at Co-Pilot tier
  • Logo on rear wing & engine cover
  • Team re-branded Nexa // [You]
  • Custom livery collab on Season 03 chassis
  • Dedicated sponsor page on our site
  • Full data & telemetry access per race
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