16-year-old makes Formula 1 car model from cardboard

The F1 car cardboard model was made single-handedly by my nephew for his school project.

Thanks to Sujay Shah for sending this information in. Heartfelt gratitude for sharing it with other enthusiasts via this Team-BHP share page!

I would like to share a bit about my nephew Aashman Shah's school project wherein he has made a Formula 1 car model single-handedly entirely from cardboard boxes, with the other members of the forum.

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Who would have thought of such a dramatic ending to the ever so exciting 2021 season of Formula 1? This season has ensured that the new fans that are born will continue to follow the sport for a long time. The same happened in our family as well. Little did I know that the genesis of which had been such.

So, I have been a car aficionado literally since I learned to walk - collecting World Car Books to hundreds of Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars to scale models to what not. Formula 1 came early into my life - right from my school days. My earliest recollection of Formula 1 was from the Senna-Prost era. However, it was not with the same craze that I had during the Schumacher-Hakkinen period and then, there has been no looking back (except for the brief period when Vettel had been ruling).

So things moved on and come 2016, I became a proud father of a beautiful little princess. As my daughter started growing and we as parents started to recognize her interests and likings, one thing that came out was her liking for cars (this made me, even more, proud). She could recognize the car logos, draw cars and their logos, and all this at the age of 3-4 years.

Now there had always been an understanding between my wife and me that on race Sundays if at all we go out, we should be back home before 6 pm. This often resulted in my daughter giving me company in watching F1 races. She started to take interest and would ask each and every detail - literally to the point wherein it would be difficult to listen to the race commentary let aside concentrate on the race. Next thing I knew she was turning into a fan herself eagerly waiting for race Sundays. Her admiration started with Lewis Hamilton, which somewhere at beginning of the 2021 season, suddenly turned towards Max (more so because Hamilton had a beard and Max did not) and there has been no looking back. I can without an exaggeration very well say she eats, sleeps, and cries Max! Oh and with the mid-season rivalry between Lewis and Max, it was becoming too hot to handle her with both of them having race collisions and penalties and whatnot.

So on one such race Sunday, we happened to go to my brother's place for dinner. Me being me, I had to watch the race with my daughter keeping a track of it every few minutes. This sparked curiosity about the sport in my nephew and niece as well. They started watching Drive to Survive on Netflix thereby digging deeper into their curiosity. During the same time my nephew had a school project to be done on anything of your own choice - you could learn baking, or you could write a book, or you could do coding - absolutely anything.

So, my 16-year-old F1 bug-bitten nephew decides to make a Formula 1 car model from nothing but cardboard boxes!

Below are some pictures of the project work that I would like to share showing the model-making process, work in progress (along with my 5-year-old sitting inside the car inspecting the details and also giving the victory wave), and the final ready model. Also included are some pictures of the project report explaining a bit about the project. Hope everyone enjoys it!

BTW, my wife too has become a fan now (thanks to my little one) and follows every race along with all developments in Formula 1. My race Sundays are sorted!

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