I hope, in the worst case scenario, it would be okay to entrer the competition with the car alone, if the pilot does not make it in time. I invested quite a bit of money and time into it already, made a mess on my work table, then my wife got angry about it, and I got burned by a soldering iron, too. There is no turning back!
I still have to wait for a week before I can ask the company to investigate where it got stuck.