Congrats to the UWA lads on finally taking out the overall. Well deserved, and quite a thrashing in the end. Great work!

Kev, I can't remember if it was Nick McNaughton or Vass who confided in me that you were obviously the dead weight that was holding them back from success. Actually, come to think of it most of the crew in Yellow shirts were saying similar.

Maybe that applies to you too Dave ?

Speaking of dead weights - RMIT went out of the first enduro due to a dodgy clutch, after changing it on Saturday night. It might be detrimental to my reputation to tell all that I spent Saturday night up at RMIT helping them change their clutch....

Uni of Queensland came second overall, a great result for them and a triumph for simple design. I believe it was Frank's last stand with the team - so given the dead weight principle they should be up for a win next year. UoW came third, they looked pretty good all weekend so I am surprised they ended up as far back as they did on points.

Huge congrats and a big sumo bearhug to the Tokyo Denki crew, who came through for fourth place overall - after winning fuel economy and skidpa*. They backed their car into a wall on Saturday, bending up a rear corner pretty bad and doing a bit of chassis damage. Afther that they spent all Saturday night up at RMIT fixing their car, and I have to say it was a damn pleasure to watch such an efficient operation in action. They stripped the car down to a bare chassis, and did a complete engine rebuild and chassis/suspension repair job in the time it took RMIT to do an engine change. (Bloody monocoques....). Job done and workshop returned to pristine condition by 6am - after which they returned to the track to a faultless day and first finish in the Oz event since they started competing. Yoku dekimashita lads. Oh, and extra kudos to them for having one of their lads sprint across the stage during the awards ceremony dressed as a Pokemon.....

Can't remember who came fifth, I think it was UNSW. They always put in a damn good effort.

Big celebrations at Monash for the first ever finish and sixth place overall. Congrats to all, there were a lot of new students in the team this year and they all worked their borlottis off. Mostly second years - so bodes well for the team in future years.

Big ups to the team from India - well done to get over here and put in such a big effort. Apparently in India they don't such things as 600's, so they had to import everything as needed. They won Cost and the Endeavour award, and got the biggest roar of applause of all. Nearly brought the house down.

Speaking of which - a nasty squall blew over the pit garages of Deakin / Swinny / etc as we were packing up on Sunday. Carnage all round. All-team photo was cancelled as the SAE had to evacuate the site for safety. Apparently after the teams left, the scrutineering marquee and a few others went over too. Scary.

Probably lots more to waffle about but I'm hungover and grumpy and short of words....

Cheers all

Congrats to UWA, nice to see an overall win to go with the engineering acolades.

Geoff: Great to hear about the Monash result, give my best to the guys.

Ben

We're pretty chuffed with the car, she's done us proud. We finally had a bit of luck on our side, which is a bit of a contrast to the 18 months preceding the weekend. To finally get a win is an excellent feeling, we're pretty sure that to win a competition you need a heap of preparation and hard work, and an equal amount of luck. Eddie Martin tells me that you make your own luck in racing, but there's some things you just can't have any control over.

I don't know about this dead weight policy, Geoff. Perhaps you should leave the RMIT boys alone next year to let them have a win. Good luck to the lads for the upcoming east-west campaign.

For now, we've all got to deal with mean hangovers...

how did that forecast of wet weekend turned out? All event end up being dry?

Congrats to UWA on their fine victory!

Pictures, anyone?

Hi All,
I'm back in my office from Werribee.
The best Australian event ever in my opinion.
The best cars are the best in the world, and we saw a distinct improvement in the middle.
I was asked why I wasnt doing commentary, but the radio mikes were not working so all present were not subjected to my rambling.
At t6he banquet, I stood down as official Tech Advisor to the Aussie comp. There are several reasons for this, not the least being that I can help the teams more when not constrainjet by the SAE (Like, I can freely post on here =])
I took over 500 pix at the event, and have here on my thumb drive a good pic of most of the Enduro competitors.
Problem is, I have no idea how to post them.
Any advice or offers?
Pat Clarke

500 pictures seems a lot to host by any individual i think. You ever thought about putting it up on http://www.fotopages.com?

Gotta say well done to all over the weekend, great show in car quality, and sportsmanship all round.
Well done to the whole Swinny team, shame we had the probs during endurance guys, esp after all the probs in the Mon-Wed leading up to the comp (3 engine rebuilds).
First run saw the body not attached properly before I went out, and we got black flagged after 2 laps. Then during the second run, had a spherical bearing in our front right pullrod pull through it's housing - first failure of that type in over 40hrs of testing
And that happened whilst we were running some pretty quick times (still waiting for proper data, but unofficially we were running within 1sec a lap of UWA)
Again, well done to all esp Monash (for finishing Enduro) and Deakin - and we hope to see ya all next year, hopefully with a few more OS teams

Andrew Costin
Engine Team Leader 05
General Annoyance 06
Full Boar Racing
Swinburne University

Hi Rinaz
I didn't exactly mean I was going to post 500 pix, but my problem is I'm not sure how to post any number of pix in any place.
I'm one of those engineers born in the years BC (Before Computers) =]
Pat

Congratulations to UWA, they totally outclassed everyone!!

There were 5 FAST cars:

UOW
UWA
QLD
Tokyo
RMIT

Our slowest driver was passed by UWA in the first enduro, and our other drivers spent the day passing (lapping even) other cars.

There was a fair amount of grip out there, and the track was quite fast meaning that the spool was not a "bug-bear".

I believe UQ posted the 5 fastest lap times of the day in the 2nd enduro, but we'll check that again.

Gong was great as usual.

The singles battled hard, but the track was too fast, the aero cars were OK, but the track was too slow for real benefit, and the front wings were catching cones in the twisty section.

It's a hard track to marshal because there's a hill. The hill causes confusion because there's a "blind spot" from nearly every angle on the track. SAE-A needs to erect a tower and have a single "race-controller" giving commands to marshals. Marshals need headsets so that they can hear.

Congrats to everyone, a great comp, with exciting racing. The slower cars were by no means slow. The standard of drivers was very "professional".

UQ 2005 FSAE-A results:

1st Acceleration (what a surprise)
3rd Autocross
2nd Enduro
2nd Overall

Retiring disgracefully,

Frank

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Pat, I sent you a private message, this link should work to take you there...

http://fsae.com/eve?a=tpc&m=19710853921

If it works for everyone, I guess its not that private!

A big congrates to all the teams, there were some real nice cars.

We are still gutted that we couldn't get our girl to run, but there is always next year.

But what hurts more was not being able to defend our title as boat race champs.

Again big ups to the winners esp. Erin and Deano.

And thanks to RMIT, the best bunch of ozzies around.

Hi Dan, I have responded and a few pix are cyberflying across the Pacific as I type =]
Check your email
Pat

Ok, the moment you've all been waiting for, pictures!

Big thanks to Pat Clarke for sharing these. Pat, if you'd like a more detailed photo credit or anything, let me know. And feel free to send me more, I'll add them to the gallery.

Here's the gallery link:

http://evilallianceracing.com/ipw-web/gallery/FSAE-AUS05

what happened to the NZ car? looks awesome with the multi element wings though.

Large res versions are available if you click on the "sized" picture. Rather, there's a thumbnail, a 640x480 sized, and then a 1024 full. And I think Pat has even larger res/quality versions if you ask him nicely.

Again, the gallery link first, then some samples...

http://evilallianceracing.com/ipw-web/gallery/FSAE-AUS05





http://evilallianceracing.com/ipw-web/gallery/FSAE-AUS05

Thanks Pat!

Thanks Dan!

Looks like a whole bunch of really good cars. Can't wait to see more tetailed pics, or possibly see the cars in person if some of them come to detroit.

More please!

Andy

Pat, these are really some excellent shots!

Deakin sidwinder getting a little sideways...

Hey thats my baby!!

I still get a chubby everytime i see her drift...Oh god..oh my...oh look at the time...i gotta go...

Well another competition is over and Western Australia decimated the field. It was hard to hear the exact number, at the awards night, but I think UWA got 952 points, the highest ever points score in a fsae event. It the best fsae car I’ve ever seen and it was an all round class performance by the team, well done to all the members of the UWA team, including those who started with their concept in 2003.

Nick, I think you over come small issues easier when you are well prepared and organized but there is no such thing as luck in racing, only good preparation. All failures are human in origin. Some may say that the car could be could be unlucky and be hit by a lightening bolt but then you really shouldn’t be driving in a thunderstorm.

RMIT had a fantastically well integrated and packaged car, very light and fast. Achieving a 4.2 second acceleration is great for a single, a very classy car with great build quality. Should be in with a great shot of winning in the states in 2006, after they fix some damage sustained in the second enduro.

Wollongong did well in cost, 2nd, and design, 4th. They had some issues in acceleration and skidpan leading to times that were a little off the pace. Dangerous Dave put in an awesome performance to get second in AutoX only 0.7 seconds behind the all conquering UWA. Their first enduro was solid but a touch slow with minimal cones. In the second enduro they were keeping pace with UWA but a side panel became dislodged after hitting a cone. The loose bodywork then pulled the kill switch toggle out and stopped the car dead. The most bizarre DNF in an enduro i’ve ever heard of. It was also unfortunate that the fire guys pulled the car through a half a metre ditch. I’m sure people in the CBD of Melbourne heard the comments that the UOW guys directed to the offending tow car.

UQ had a very strong run in acceleration and were very quick in Enduro although some “interesting” flag marshaling probably held them up a bit. A good all-round performance to finish second overall.

Although I was standing right near it I didn’t see Monash when it had it’s inside wheels about half a metre in the air. Does anybody have any photos of this incident? Great work by the team to finish both endurance heats. Scott and Jarrod certainly stood out on awards night in a strange version of “team uniform.”

The Auckland guys were the friendliest guys in the paddock with a great attitude and sense of humour throughout the event. A real shame they couldn’t get on track but I’m sure they will be back on track next year with a well tested and developed car.

USYD put in a great performance finishing with a 3rd place in enduro. They were extremely happy with their trophy at the awards night and ADFA had a very strong run to 3rd in Acceleration. The design event seemed to go really well this year and the final was a great step forward.

The top 4 cars were very quick in AutoX but a 3 second gap between 4th and 5th seemed to show a noticeable speed difference between some of the cars. The enduro had some incidents with Curtin and RMIT hitting a marshal’s barrier and USQ catching fire to name a few. The event was called off and the site was abandoned as Adelaide was still driving their second enduro, sans wings after an incident in the Autox. Winds had become too strong and had picked up and thrown some of the pit tents making the site too dangerous to continue using.


Eddie Martin
UOW Racing 01 - 04
FSAE-A Scrutineer / Track Marshall.