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Tonight is the finals of this season of Formula Pi, and what a tight season of racing we've had to get to these last two races! The top of the leaderboard has been tightly fought between Pi Hard from Poole and Pico HulkenBorg from Oxfordshire, with Pi Hard edging the lead going into the final race.

As in previous years, we are runnning a B-final to decide positions 6 through 10 and an A-final to decide positions 1 through to 5, so the top 10 all comes down to this final race.

The races will be on our live feed today (10th of April) at 18:30 BST and are available here:

After 9 rounds of thrilling testing, challenges and racing, we've arrived! The last sessions had some excellent edge of your seat racing action, and it was the perfect way to finish off the season!

If you don't want to know the results, don't scroll any further and make sure you watch the two videos below for all the racing action:

Session 1:

Session 2:

In the penultimate round of racing, there has been some tight heats really impacting the leaderboard. Catch up with the sessions below to find out what happened before scrolling on to the results.

Round 8 Session 1:

Round 8 Session 2:

Make sure you watch the Challenge Session 1 & 2 videos below if you don't want spoilers for what happened in the challenges!

Catch up with Session 1 and Session 2 if you haven't watched them already, spoilers are contained below!

Catch up with Session 1 and Session 2 if you haven't watched them already, spoilers are contained below!

The first testing session of the Winter 2018 season took place last week with 17 robots all lining up to flex their coding muscles. The best recorded lap of the night went to Chitty Chitty Pi Pi with 16.54 seconds, and they also had the best average times of the night at 16.69 seconds.

The full testing session can be rewatched below, check the video description for time stamped entries for each robot.

The results are in... And here they are!

Thank you to all of the competitors who took the time to fill in the short survey we published a few weeks ago. This blog post is intended to share the results of that survey, and address the common themes that were raised by multiple competitors and let you know what's next for Formula Pi.

There were 18 respondents out of a possible 31 respondents.

The first seven questions were used to gauge feelings about Formula Pi and the last three were designed to give free feedback.