Well after checking the main site I still don't see a list of total points and final standings for this years event. If anyone can whip up an Excel list or the likes it would be great.

It'll be up within the week, I'm sure... the competition just ended yesterday!

The company that the SAE hires to do the scoring and stuff (used to be EDS back in my day) puts together a real nice fully detailed spreadsheet that'll be up on the SAE site. You can check out the ones from years past (back through '97) in their results section. It'll have all the data you want, I'm sure.

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Do you know if they post every team's best lap in endurance? I'd really like to compare our times with the rest of the field.

I'd expect the results spreadsheet will be very similar to those from recent years, which are here:

http://www.sae.org/students/fsaeresu.htm

They've got all the times plus cone count from every run, every driver, every school. All the data you could ever need.

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Well, I haven't seen the top 5 yet:

1. Cornell
2. Texas A&M
3. Auburn U
4. UMR
5. UW

Get this: Less than 20 points separated 2nd through 5th!!

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Originally posted by Charlie:
Get this: Less than 20 points separated 2nd through 5th!!

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You guys beat us by 1.6 points, and I think A&M was in front of you guys by about 7 points.

You weren't kidding about close.

Cornell had us all pretty good, though.

The results are up now (just the overalls, not the full results with times and stuff for each event) as a .pdf:

http://www.sae.org/students/fsae2004results.pdf

They will be posted as an Excel file in the future, accessible here:

http://www.sae.org/students/fsaeresu.htm

Wow, last place!!! Unfortunately, we didn't have our act together enough to compete this year, but hopefully next year we'll be up in Detroit with a pretty decent car. Congratulations to Cornell and especially the folks at Auburn who help us out occaisionally!

-Christopher D. Burch

Mercer University
Bear Motorsports

Is that THE MIT (the mekka for mechanical engineering) on the 41st place?

Actually that was us in 41st place. We were extremely proud of it too.

We were happy just to have competed in all the events unlike last year, were we barely made it through the safety techs. I still can't believe we finished endurance.

Just like any new team (this was our 2nd year) we are fighting a huge learning curve and we're still trying to get a proper team infrastructure set up.

-Rich James

MIT had A LOT better car than they had last year as a first year team. And they finished endurance the second time out. There's 100 teams out there who didn't this year, and 110 who didn't last year, so you should be proud about that.

There's some scan of the results at http://www.sae.org/students/fsaeresu.htm

It says the actual Excel sheet is "forthcoming"

Anyway - you can print this out 7 read it.

Bert

As with any year, anyone who finishes all dynamic events should be proud of it - it's not easy, especially for 2nd year teams like MIT. I suspect that they'll be in the running in the future, and I expect that the competition will only get tighter for the top 10 spots. This year was no exception to that - our point total in 2003 wouldn't have made the cut this year.

Congratulations to all who attended and competed. This was my fifth competition (four as a member of the team, the first was just observing...Kolp will attest to the fact that I was just some random camera guy at the time...) and my last in my capacity here, but suffice to say, it's a great way of spending the middle of May if you can do it.

I'll certainly try to be back for next year though, and will certainly try to keep in touch with all things FSAE as I can. I'm entertaining the option of having my advisor's new company sponsor an organizational behavior and dynamics award next year. Will keep everyone abreast on plans on that as things develop. As is, it's just an idea that popped up in my mind last night, so there's some grunt work to be done on that I'm sure. Hell, the company ain't even incorporated yet. I'll believe it exists when I get a plane ticket to Cali and some cash.

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This was my fifth competition (four as a member of the team, the first was just observing...Kolp will attest to the fact that I was just some random camera guy at the time...)

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By "random" Mike means drunken.

Kolp's management report in 2001 refers to me as a "drunk Canadian" at least three times.

That torch has been passed on. Sachin's way more of a boozehound anyway. We got him to snort pepper at Big Bucks. And dance. Kind of.