Refreshed and replenished, our team tackled the first hurdle of the competition. Today was actually the first official competition day and the first stop was the COST inspection where JSAE judges would mark our car according to the manufacturing cost report we had sent two months earlier.
Admittedly, we did not perform well. There were quite a number of major mistakes in our initial cost report which the team failed to identify. Most questions the judged aimed at us involved approximate costs of parts we had not obtained during the time the report was written. Moreover, we also failed to submit a list of additional parts and changes to the original costs during registration. We were heavily penalised for this mistake.

Fair to say it was not the best start one would hope for.