hey mike shaw, who's texas university? They must not teach you much down there in sheep fucking town. We are The University of Texas at Austin, you can read it about four spots above Texas A&M in the overall standings. And tell your ringer he's way to cocky, too good to talk racing with someone from UT who posted the fastest endurance time of the morning...BTW does he even know what a heim joint is?

Does anyone know the winners of the various awards?

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Originally posted by leadfootedfool:
Does anyone know the winners of the various awards?

Yeah, I wanna know if OU won the Brake award again. Twice in a row would rock.

Wilso,

Why so bitter? You should be proud of what your team did....but it hardly puts you in a position to get cocky.

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Originally posted by Foote:
Some of the acceleration runs
West Australia 4.32
Lehigh 5.37
RMIT 4.671
Penn State 4.285
SVSU 4.135
Cornell 4.135
Texas A&M 4.049
I don't think anyone beat texas.

I think we might be a transparent team, not a single picture of our car in the 1000 pictures posted here, and now even our 4.186 acceleration run gets forgotten. And by the way, I doubt SVSU made that time as we finieshed 4th behind Texas A&M, Cornell and Drexel.

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I think we might be a transparent team, not a single picture of our car in the 1000 pictures posted here, and now even our 4.186 acceleration run gets forgotten.

Same things for Laval, McGill, Chicoutimi and Trois-Rivière Didier... maybe all quebec's team are invisible! Only a few pictures on 1000!

Don't feel to bad the first picture of anything from our team were our four 12" subs.

Sorry for missing shots of your cars guys. My camera filled up when I was 2/3rds of the way through the autox line on Friday. I meant to get a bunch more Saturday but I was just not in the mood. And it was tough keeping track of which schools I'd already shot and which I hadn't.

Here's a tip for getting your car in lots of pictures. Find an uber hot chick to put in the drivers seat wearing skimpy clothing. I guarantee your car will be the most photographed one at the event!

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Originally posted by Wilso:
hey mike shaw, who's texas university? They must not teach you much down there in sheep fucking town. We are The University of Texas at Austin, you can read it about four spots above Texas A&M in the overall standings. And tell your ringer he's way to cocky, too good to talk racing with someone from UT who posted the fastest endurance time of the morning...BTW does he even know what a heim joint is?

I don't know how you can get off talking to me like that. Don't you have a better place you can post your bitter, stereotypical insults than this message board?

I don't need to prove A&M's worth in any area of sports or academia to you or anyone else on this board. I certainly dont need to prove A&M's worth in the FSAE competition -- our cars do more than enough talking.

Ever since the inception of FSAE at A&M we have been a threat as a top contendender, posting 3 top 5 finishes in the 7 short years we have been involved. We are one of the top teams every year, and will continue to do so for years to come. The only thing that separates us or any other top team from that 1st place finish is judge biases in designs, loopholes in the cost reporting process, and freak failures in endurance.

Does this signify that we or any other top team that don't finish endurance are any less smart, less hard working, or less of a competative team? NO. We proved this year we are one of the best with first place finishes in autox, acceleration, and a 3rd place finish in skidpad. We had true shot at the #1 spot if we could have made those last 7 laps.

Even so, our school, college of engineering, and former FSAE members have nothing but pride for this year's team and all they accomplished. That pride will be shown for the world to see this November in the R&T magazine, and neitehr you nor anyone else can take that away.

This is a board for building up fellow FSAE members from various schools across the world. The comments you've posted are an insult to both you, your team, and your school. Your name and IP should be banned from this forum for destructive attitude.

First, I want to thank everyone who worked so hard on updates for those of us who couldn't be at comp this year. You didn't have to put that extra time in, it's cool people like you that help make being a part of FSAE so awesome.

Second, I want to say congrats to the University of New Mexico for their 14th place finish. UNM has been working really hard the last three years to bring the quality of our cars up to par with the really good teams, and now I think we are finally there. I know there are more than a couple of teams that didn't deserve the place they got, but UNM is very proud to be in the top 20 overall for the first time!! Thanks to all the teams that have been so cool to us and helpful the last couple of years, especially UTA and UW.

Go Lobos!!

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Originally posted by Mike Shaw:

Don't you have a better place you can post your bitter, stereotypical insults than this message board? ... Your name and IP should be banned from this forum for destructive attitude.

Yeah. Wilso should strive to follow your lead and be constructive and not at all bitter:

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Originally posted by Mike Shaw:

The only thing that separates us or any other top team from that 1st place finish is judge biases in designs, loopholes in the cost reporting process, and freak failures in endurance.

Classy. Damn classy.

Can't we just settle this all at the Texas Autocross Weekend?

I've put the RMIT pic and more back up. Working on an SVSU GP gallery, I'll start another thread for that.

Anyone know what the winning db reading was for the noise award? we got 88.8, but I have this strange feeling that since we were the first through noise that the meter was still warming up.
i think were were much closer to 110db.

i heard some team had a crazy anti-resonance chamber that put them under the noise limit at the requisite piston speed and way over everywhere else.

Beat me to the punch B.K.

I have to say it, If "If's and but's were candy and nuts..."

Trust me, I see it every week at the race track on the highest level of motorsports. Bad luck, politics of the officials, loose wheels and all other types of stuff out of my control, but most of the time, bad luck and your breaks that you judge as unfair are usually a product of the man in the mirror. 90% of racing teams week in and week out don't get beat by the competition, they get beat by themselves.

Jeff

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Originally posted by Denny Trimble:
Raid,
The individual working on wings gave up on it, and we haven't pursued it since.

The '04 FSAE courses were much faster than the '03 and '05; this year I'd hate to have wings on the car in Detroit. Topeka, however...

I'll post pics of the full results tonight to fill the gap before SAE makes the spreadsheet available.

I'm hanging out at SVSU, getting ready to drive tomorrow...

Thanks for the reply, but i was asking about the Western Australian guys, talking to then at FSAE-A 04 they said they almost got their wings done for that competition and should have them done for detroit,
i was just wondering what happened to them?

thanks

You'all can shut up. I liked the group from Texas A&M. They all were in good spirits for the Sunday road & track event despite the endurance result. Its a tough pill to swallow to go from 1st to 47th, and they showed a lot of class not to cry about it.

Mike - don't take it so personal. Forums can be a tough place. People vent thier own frustrations. I had to endure the "worst FSAE ever" thread last year.


Joe Paolicchi, FSAE

Yeah, I might be bitter, the 24-hour drive can do that to anyone. We too got caught up in the design loop holes and what not. I just hate how A&M can take the rivalry too far at times. Last year we had one of the worst cars in my opinion but I still worked hard to help get it there and did my best. We were down and some of the aggies kept kicking. Destroying our expensive magnetic logos is not cool. We have to pay for those you know. I apologize if I've offended people, I may have taken it over the line in an inappropriate setting. Hopefully we can get together at Arlington...although i'm sure you guys will still eat us for lunch.
Again my apologies to everyone.

-Chris Auerbach
UT FSAE Co-Captain 2005

Congrats to all on what was obviously a great event. Unfortunately I couldn't make it this year, after too many years of FSAE left my wallet looking rather under-nourished. I would have loved to have been there to see all the big names in action - maybe the lads from Cornell might spend their winnings on a trip to Oz in December

My congrats to all the lads at RMIT for putting on what must have been a damn good show. If I may take the opportunity to talk up my old team-mates, over the past few years I've had the opportunity to work with some of the most hard-working, talented and good-humoured individuals that I've ever met. Thanks all for putting in so much effort to prove a concept that no-one thought would ever succeed. Maybe the final result wasn't as hoped, but it seems you sure opened a few eyes.

A crying shame about the wheel bearing, but that's racing I guess. Someone will win this thing with a single one day

And I'll finish with a big thumbs up to all the lads at UWA. A well deserved result!

Cheers all

Didier and Guillaume,
I still have about another 800 pictures to put up right now (and some that won't make it up for sure). You may be in some of those. Maybe I can setup to upload during breaks from the Claude Rouelle seminar tomorrow. I would be happy to host pictures for anyone. Just send me and email and we can work it out.

Your acceleration time is impressive. I wrote the numbers down for some of the cars I watched and then had Justin post them because he was heading back to the hotel. Of course I can't be blamed so it must be Justin's fault.

Ben,
Drexel won the Bruel and Kjaer Quite Cup. I don't know what their reading was. I'll try to type up all of the rewards in the next day or two if SAE doesn't beat me to it.