Hey Everyone,

The powers that be are thinking of doing another west coast practice event like last year at Buttonwillow.....

If we can pull it together, this year it will be in So Cal @ Irwindale Speedway or Cal Speedway or something equivalent.... in mid April making it 6 or so weeks before the competition.

Structure will be similar to the Buttonwilllow event (i.e. dynamic practice and static judging)

Cost per team should not be more than $100 and it will probably be less (i.e free if things work out well)

Please post replies to let us know who is interested in such an event

Thanks,

Ian

def interested

CP SLO

you know were in.

Cal Poly Pomona

anyone else?

Long Beach is in.

send me an email i think we will be down as well (u of a) and can probably help out a lot, certain sponsorships and what not. RKemmet@gmail.com

I'm pretty sure UCB would be up for it as well.

UCSD SAE will be there with last-years car, in the least.

UCD will most likely make it there.

Alright! That's what I want to hear

Even if the guys don't make it down, I'd be glad to help out in any way I can.

Hey everyone,

We have secured the venue for the FSAE practice event.....

April 16th 2005
California Speedway

Event details soon to follow

Thats awesome. Way to go. Please keep us in mind if any help is needed. We will try in any way.
Ricky
CSULB

CSUN will be there.

We wanted to be at the autocross this week also but we had a problem with last years car last weekend.

Let me know if we can do anything to help.

i'd love to be there. hopefully i can make myself a team by then to bring down there!

Even if you don't have your team together it would be worth the trip down to see some other cars in person and get a real idea of the scale of the parts and performance capabilities of the cars. Not to mention a lot of good "do's and don'ts" from folks who've been-there-done-that.

Stanfurd? Who's that?

If you're interested, you could swing up to Berzerkely and take a look if you're interested. We're starting testing in Alameda very soon as well.

-Kirk
U.C. Berkeley

heck yeah i'd like to visit berkeley. PM me back or email me (kwancho@stanford.edu) and we can talk more. and im definetly gonna be at this practice, team or not.
-alex

a bit off topic....but Doug Milliken is coming to Cal Poly SLO March 4th and 5th. You're all welcome to come, and I'm sure that you'll learn quite a bit to help you get started.

js10: is he speaking there? is it open to anyone?

yeah, he'll be speaking for an hour and a half to 2 hours. Its' open to everyone, but the trip from Canada may be a bit much for what you'll get out of it.