However, there was not much time to celebrate as parallel by completing the Hackathon, Roborace Season Beta went into its first round: with the race car, the Devbot 2.0, at the Anglesey Circuit in Wales and the ARG team participating remotely from Graz.
Unfortunately, it did not go as planned. Bad weather conditions already reduced the track testing time for the teams. When finally, the ARG team, as first of all teams, started the race, the Devbot 2.0 performed an emergency stop in the very first corner.
What happened?
The car received a message from race control to perform an emergency stop, and of course, the Devbot 2.0 followed the request.
But who initiated this message?
No one!
It was a phantom message that should have never been sent to the car—the consequence: cancellation of the whole event.
For the sake of safety, we fully support the decision of Roborace to cancel the race. As Season Beta is a developing season, such incidents have to be expected. The ARG team is confident to learn a lot from this failure and will be back for the next race even stronger.