High school student on track to success

Kiwi  racing development driver Andre Heimgarter's outstanding performance in last weekend's round of the Carrera Cup at Surfer's Paradise has scored him the chance to race in the Porsche factory drive at the 2013 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup.

The opportunity continues when the 17 year old student at St Kents High school in Auckland who decided to drive the team Kiwi racing Porsche 997 earlier this year.

Ending with 2 fifths and a fourth at the Gold Coast, Porche cars Australia sealed his nomination.

" When I offered Andre the opportunity this season to race the porsche, it was that that gave him the international experience  and exposure to make a full time career of racing."

  

Andre Heimgartner, Kiwi racing driver, in a porsche.

Cardboard bike!

A bicycle made nearly completely out of cardboard could change the world. The cardboard bike is cheap, durable and rides like a traditional metal-framed one. It has the potential help ease the world's most congested cities to helping transport people in the poorest reaches of Africa, its Israeli inventor says.

Izhar Gafni, 50, is an expert in designing automated mass - production lines. He is an enthusiastic cyclist who for years has thought about the idea of a bicycle made of cardboard.

"I worked for four years to cancel out the cardboard structure's weak points," Gafni said. "Overall, it took a year and a half, with a lot of testing and failure until I got it just right."

Initial production is set to begin in Israel shortly and the bikes will be available to purchase within a year.

 

Izhar Gafni with his cardboard bike.