A KAYAK found in a garage will be speeding around car racing circuits this summer.

The fibreglass shell of the unwanted craft is undergoing a transformation, thanks to pupils of Chatham House Grammar School in Ramsgate, that will see it become a battery-powered mean machine in the south-east heats of the green car challenge at the County Showground in Detling.

Qualification will mean that the kayak-car will line up on the grid for the national final at Goodwood racing circuit in October.

Chatham House has pioneered the sport, and has been in the top three nationally in the competition since it launched seven years ago.

The latest vehicle is called Where’s My Paddle?

Team leader Lester Edmeades, from the school’s physics department, said: “We decided a kayak was the best streamlined shape and size. We hunted high and low without success, until one was eventually located via a parent at the school.”