Good Afternoon all,
For those who may be interested, a variation on FSAE competition is being held at present by the JSAE at Fuji Speedway in Japan.
I understand there are some 17 entrants, all from Japan.
The Fuji Speedway, owned by Toyota, is the venue despite that facility being slated for demolition and redevelopment in the very near future.
Initial reports are patchy, but I keep hearing rumours of poor organisation and a misunderstanding of the concept of Formula SAE.
The event finishes on Saturday, so I would be interested to hear from anyone there who visits this website, and maybe even post some pictures
PDR

Rudeness is a weak mans imitation of strength

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.geocities.co.jp%2FMotorCity-Race%2F9293%2Flink.html&lp=ja_en&tt=url


there's some links from the MEIJO University Site

Regards All

Frank

I count 11 teams. The University of Toronto Formula SAE Shootout will be hosting over 15 schools and 18 cars. More info on another thread.

Vinh

University of Toronto Formula SAE Racing Team
www.fsae.utoronto.ca

wow Vinh, you managed to make that post sound absolutley nothing like an advertisement. but since it is for such a good cause i will forgive you.

was having a bit of a look at tokyo denki's site thru babelfish, see if you can understand anything about this story:

First chapter

The road to new Turkey
Beginning!
I echo run three say Takahashi who does the steering wheel & accounting charge of the machine. There being a meaning, because the column which I write, "the companion of load of the Turkey - circles -" with to publish it was not possible "the echo run member and second sections of Turkey of secret", publication "of the road to Turkey" of the echo run member being late considerably, you put away... m (_ _) m
Well, it was time when new student enters. Now echo run three in the machine, it reached the stage whether it probably will enter into the detail design gradually. It is late more considerably than schedule... new student everyone, how our echo runs three joining to the member of the machine, you probably will aim toward victory be it is? Now being light-handedness, the ひ - the ひ - saying, it increases. How do you do!
* Motor Vehicles Div. bean knowledge *
Strange (reference civilian Kyushu boy "enclosure") of the Kagoshima valve
て げ -> very enormous
て げ て げ -> low approximately
It is to come it is to come -> it has done lively young, glossily
(So) put out it is -> so is, (don't you think?)
The て it accompanies and -> is languid
ぬ the っ -> (humidity raising) is thick
Old boy -> lady
And others - it shakes, -> the blackboard turning off
Example
A you
"The あ -, the present ending げ て it accompanies, -"
B you
"The ほ it is with, the present て げ ぬ っ?",
A you
"The っ, the old boy there it is to come it is to come it has done! Being healed, - "
B you
"Your ほ it is with the old boy lover shelf -"
A you
"Put out - it is"
B you
"And others - it shakes,and others - it shakes!The て げ て げand others - it shakes! !"

the road to turkey.

im really interested, what was a japanese team doing in turkey?

- if it isnt coming, you need a bigger tool.

gug,

he has been bitten by a drop bear..
what he's trying to say is...

"The team "bush-turkeys" are all powerful, we can't beat them, don't even try"


nah seriously.. i think you got to be careful you're not getting literal interpretations of names happening..

they have wonderful literal interpretations.. like plentiful, peaceful one, etc etc

regardless, it seems Babel fish just ain't up to the task, especially with informal speech

regards
Frank

http://www.uq.edu.au/fsae/

Hello all

We finished Formula J-SAE yesterday.
I write down result of this event.

place team
1 Sophia Univ.
2 Kokushikan Univ.
3 The Univ. of Tokyo
4 Kanazawa Insitute of Technology
5 Utsunomiya Univ.
6 Knazawa Univ.
7 Nihon Univ. College of Science and Technology
8 Meijyo Univ.
9 Tokyo denki Univ.
10 Kanazawa Institute of Technology
11 Tokyo Metropolitan College of Aeronautical Engineering
12 Nagoya Insitute of Technology
13 Musashi Insitute of Technology
14 Doshisha Univ.
15 Keio Univ.
16 Nihon Univ. College of Industrial Technology
17 Osaka Univ.

Regards

Akira Niijima
Tokyo Denki Univ.
Drive Train leader
00sn081@ed.ccs.dendai.ac.jp
sorry, Japanese only

Here is a link to thier official site (translated)

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsae.or.jp%2Fformula%2Findex.html

-Charlie Ping
Auburn University FSAE
5th Overall Detroit 2003
? Overall Aussie 2003.

Here are 2 videos from the first Japanese car to come to the states. It was a huge beast of a caar (but it had reverse )

http://www.jsae.or.jp/movie/2001/fsae01b.ram
http://www.jsae.or.jp/movie/2001/fsae02b.ram

In regards to the Japanese vehicle's performance, I think it is tough to compare them to FSAE-A, or even Formula Student. They have a language barrier Australia & most of Europe don't have. They probably don't gain a lot from the english websites or forums.

-Charlie Ping
Auburn University FSAE
5th Overall Detroit 2003
? Overall Aussie 2003.

Thank you Akira,
Can you write a small report on the event for us? You have been to Australia and Detroit. How did the event compare? What was the standard of entries? How many teams finished?
See you in Adelaide
Pat

Rudeness is a weak mans imitation of strength

Hi Pat and all

I think Formula JSAE was a very unripe event still now.
For example...
Time measurement was counted by the stopwatch.
And, there is no staff who knows about the racing car at desigin event.
Nobody keeps deadline and it is allowed.
Nobody has Wire Twister and it does not become a problem by the technical inspection by that.
The course layout was very dangerous.
For example,
The brake test ran toward the cliff like a chicken race.

About the result of others, it upload to our site later.

I think that is very difficult to learn something in Formula JSAE.
But I hope Japanese event growing up to good event.

I don't wanna write any more.
Because we are loser in this time.

Regards

Akira

EVERYONE IS A WINNER IN THIS EVENT AKIRA !!!

congratulations, and thanks for the report

Frank

Thanks Akira and Thanks Frank
Pat

Rudeness is a weak mans imitation of strength

Hi everyone. I was in the University of Leeds team at the 2004 JSAE event at the Twin-ring Motegi. We had a blast going to Japan but it was so unfortunate our car couldn't run at the event. I just want to see if anyone has any photos of that event that they can share....

Best regards,

Afif

Akira, Did you (Tokyo Denki) and Sophia both use the same cars that you used at the Australian event, or were they new cars??
If they were the same event, I can't see how you guys could have been beaten-you placed really well at the Australian event, and were worthy of your placing

Andrew Costin
05 Operations Manager
Team Swinburne
Swinburne Uni
Australia

Off topic:
A nice small touch I notice in the JSAE group shot: a banner sign with the event and year up front. I know whenever someone walks in a FSAE shop and notices the panoramic, I have to take a close look at the cars to determine what year the pic was taken. Of course I could just attach a sign.

All the panoramics I have have the year printed on them. But I am old.

Afifz,

I think we (UT Arlington) might have some pics from the 2004 event. Try contacting Dr. Woods at his email address. I am assuming you can find the University website and find faculty email addresses here. If not, let me know.

As for the organization of the event, I am surprised that the 2005 event sounds so pourly organized. The 2004 event was so extremely well organized at the Twin Ring facilities that I find it extremely surprising that it would be so drasticly different. They went as far as to have a former F1 Honda Engineer from the 60's and 70's as the chief engineer for the event. I am sorry to hear that the Japan event has fallen under difficult times. I hope the event continues to grow and finds it's way back to the organization we saw at the 2004 event.

Erick-

Am I missing something? Where was it stated that the 2005 JSAE had fell on hard times or was poorly organized?

Yeah, I agree. The 2004 JSAE event was very well managed and planned. I remember when our car (Leeds Uni) had engine problems a group of Honda ebgineers of yesteryear came by to give a halping hand albeit to no avail. But yeah, the 2004 JSAE event was cool. Dunno about the 2005 event tho cos i didn't go...

Garlic,

Did I misinterpret the first post on this topic? Or did you just not read where this thread began?