Luck or not?

     It has been a while since I have been here, but today sounds like a good day to write. It is raining outside and I love a good storm. But the real reason I am here is to talk about my project. Today in engineering we turned in part of our innovation project. Basically the idea of the project is to build a car to transport the "cargo".
     Before class we needed to build the car, test it, and do some written work. My team mates were not helpful on this subject at all. But today we tested the car. This consists of a starting line, then 20 feet away a large circle with a small circle inside it. The "cargo" that my team transported was 5 ping pong balls.
     We get to test the car twice with time between for any changes we need to make. We tested the first time and the car only went 8 feet and a few inches. This made me and my team stress. So during the time allotted I took the car and without help again I basically rebuilt the car and modified it tremendously.
     After a couple of practice tests we were not confident with the car but class was almost over. So I set it and let it go, to our amazement it had an almost perfect run. Landing 6 inches from the exact middle, the small circle has a radius of 9 inches. We went from the worst in the class to the best. In the end the testing of the car got a grade of 110%. My group thought it was just luck, but I think it was more.