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Originally posted by James Waltman:
These are my endurance notes.

This is just what I saw and heard. Some of it is second hand. Some of this may have some errors. Please correct any errors you see.

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U of Delaware starts the endurance – goes 3ft and stalls out
They are way off the pace and holding everyone up – a lot. Something is making them much slower than they were in the autocross
UW, Montreal, Oklahoma, Auburn all get held up by Delaware.
Delaware is running laps in the 90 second range – Auburn is running the 72 second range

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Originally posted by BuckeyeMike55:

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Originally posted by markocosic:
Hey all,

So I dropped by on the Saturday on the way to the Rouelle Seminar and snapped a few shots/generally had a good chinwag. Some decently turned out teams and machinery out there, bang-on event organisation (it appeared!) and stinking hot weather.

'Big up' to WSU for the hotel room on Saturday and cheers UoW for teh invite even if we did leave once the frat boys broke out the G&T... :P WWU - unless there are issues with insurance I'll add the WWU vs. Best Western pics in a week. Claude's seminar was /excellent/ BTW, can thoroughly recommend that one for those debating whether or not to go - the guy is a gentleman, a scholar and has more than enough jokes about the French and the Americans to keep us all entertained...

Pictures here, sorted into "cars", "car details" etc. They should all have names/numbers on:

Formula SAE West 2006 Pictures

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Originally posted by markocosic:
No apparent objections so...
Hotel 0, WWU 0
Clearance... ...insufficient!

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Originally posted by James Waltman:
These are my endurance notes.

This is just what I saw and heard. Some of it is second hand. Some of this may have some errors. Please correct any errors you see.

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Texas A&M passes Wollongong

Kansas – Gas cap fell off – noticed during driver change – put back on and the team continues.

Michigan State was running fast but had a constant mist/cloud from what looked like the coolant overflow

Texas A&M stalled out on the track – 20 seconds or so and they were on their way again.

Toledo spins out

Texas A&M pulled into the pits for a few minutes – looks like they leave again with the same driver. ???

Michigan State DNF – the mist/cloud was all of the water boiling off – leads to engine troubles

Toledo was gaining on Texas A&M but had to change drivers before they got close enough to pass

Wollongong's second driver spins off course – gets going again

Big flame from the Kansas tailpipe every time they pass us

RMIT has trouble starting the car during the driver change. They get it going and get back on the course. Geoff is driving second (Big Bird)

Kansas passes Wollongong

RMIT stalls/spins? gets it going again
Half a lap later Geoff decides to see how fast the car is across the grass...
Was there trouble controlling the car?

Kansas completes the endurance but is missing a cap for the fuel tank??

UMR gains on RMIT and then passes

RMIT seems a little down on speed??

Ohio State gets pulled into the pits on a misflag by a course worker. They can't restart their car = DNF

RIT passes Akron

Cal Poly Pomona spins off course on the first lap.

U of Washington passes Akron
UW spins 1 lap later at the same spot and Akron passes back
UW passes Akron 1.5 laps later
UW spins

UMR drags a cone around for a long time

RIT seems quick

Cal Poly Pomona DNF at driver change – couldn't restart

Oklahoma was good through the driver changes

U of Delaware starts the endurance – goes 3ft and stalls out
They are way off the pace and holding everyone up – a lot. Something is making them much slower than they were in the autocross
UW, Montreal, Oklahoma, Auburn all get held up by Delaware.
Delaware is running laps in the 90 second range – Auburn is running the 72 second range

U of Washington passes Montreal

U of Washington completes the endurance

Ecole Polytechnique De Montreal – DNF

U of Victoria (B.C.) holds up Cal Poly SLO for a lap

U of Victoria looks unhealthy

Auburn passes UVic

Black flag for Auburn
Held for about a minute then sent back out

Cal State Northridge is faster than ETS and passes them

ETS has a mirror loose – it flaps all over the place

U Victoria is off and towed away

Western Ontario passes Cal State Northridge
Clemson passes Cal State Northridge

Western Ontario stalls out – goes about 30 yards and stall out again

Clemson gains on ETS
ETS ignores/misses a blue flag that would have let Clemson pass
Clemson passes ETS at the next passing lane

ETS gets loose on a corner right in front of us – right before the flag station
UC Irvine stalls out right then and ETS is stuck behind them
ETS got loose on the corner because of a flat tire
ETS – DNF

UC Irvine stalls out and holds up Chalmers

UC San Diego has big problems stalling and surging - It causes the whole field to bunch up

Chalmers is pulled off of the course – sent back out again

UC Davis spins out – stalls – gets going again

Clemson goes off course. The driver plants the throttle and whips it all the way around to get back on course

Sophia passes the Brazilian car (the red one with E85 and a Turbo? Sorry)
They are evenly matched and pass back and forth a few times

UCSD is stalled out and rolling – they start the car again as they pass by me and they continue on
UCSD is having serious trouble – they are barely limping along

Kettering passes UCSD and completes the Endurance

U of Texas San Antonio loses a wheel = DNF

U of Alberta seems wounded and is slow – they get a black flag and DNF

Arizona's muffler falls off after only a few laps. They had added a bit of tube that must have made it heavier (I assume it was an effort to pass Noise Check)

Washington State is running a solid endurance – they are faster than the other teams who are still running. Washington St completes the Endurance

Oregon State was running at the end of the endurance because engine troubles were holding them up. They were running well but DNFed. I don't know why.

My boys at WWU were fighting their ECU all night.
I asked them this morning what the status was. They were waiting for a new chip. From where? Overnight from Bellingham.
They park the car in line for the brake test because they hadn't passed yet. The chip shows up and they throw it in. Pass the brake test and head straight to the endurance line. They are one of the last cars in line.
Jack gets in two laps before he gets a black flag. The coolant overflow bottle was spraying all over. DNF
I know that they are disappointed but I'm proud of how hard they were working on it.

I think that I'm missing the Design Review now.
I'll try to get a video of it and post it.

The awards ceremony is in an hour. I'll post the results later.
I'll get more pictures up soon.

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Originally posted by markocosic:
No apparent objections so...
Clearance... ...insufficient!

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Originally posted by MikeDutsa:
why is your car called V8? it is running with an F4i isn't it?