Klay Hall • Traci Balthazor-Flynn • John Lasseter • Jeffrey M. Howard • Mark Mancina • Jeremy Milton Is there a single model from Pagani’s history that you are most proud of? Do you have a favourite car that Pagani has built? Have each group discuss together what they would change in the team design given what they observed during the class runs. Lightning McQueen and Francesco Bernoulli at the start of Carburetor County World Grand Prix race in The World of Cars Online.

For example, if there was a Cars World War II, then there must have been a Cars World War I, correct? Was that bloody global event set into motion by the assassination of Carchduke Ferdinand? And was Carchduke Ferdinand a 1914 Model T?...While developing a Formula One character for the film, the developing team realized that a such open-wheeled car could make much more gesture than normal cars with fenders. Director John Lasseter said: "We don't typically lift the tires off, partly because of the fender. But I thought, "Wow. To have an open wheel car, like Francesco, it gives us a lot more gestures." And so we thought, "Well this guy's going to be gesturing like crazy. Let’s make him Italian, an Italian Formula 1 car. This will be perfect."" The challenge/problem is to design a vehicle with the constraint that it must be built entirely out of dry pasta and able to roll down a provided ramp as far as possible. Have students conduct some research related to the challenge. This might include letting them research some pasta car designs on the Internet, showing them some (already found) pictures and/or giving them time to examine and experiment with the given materials. (15 minutes) According to Story Supervisor Nathan Stanton, Francesco's character constantly reminded the development team of the character John Turturro played in The Big Lebowski. Consequently, John Turturro was chosen to voice Francesco. Imagine riding in a car made entirely of pasta! Well, you won't be driving this car any time soon, but you will have a chance to design a model vehicle made from this popular cuisine. Your task is to design a vehicle made entirely of dry pasta that is able to roll down a ramp and coast freely as far as possible. I bet you are already imagining a number of challenges that you might face in attempting to make pasta roll!

Francesco's last name, Bernoulli, is a reference to Daniel Bernoulli, a Dutch/Swiss mathematician who published ground-breaking theories on fluid dynamics and the conservation of energy. When the motion energy of an object changes, there is inevitably some other change in energy at the same time.Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem. According to Meet the Cars, Francesco's model is a 2009 Formula FB1 Prototype, a Pixar in-house design that draws inspiration from various F1 cars, but is primarily based on a Formula One prototype used in the 2009 F1 testing season from November 2008 to March 2009.