Formula SAE California 2011 Competition: - Updates, Pictures, Stories, and More

[D Collins Jr]

As we're heading out the door seems like an appropriate time to start this one...I know Oklahoma is planning to post facebook updates throughout the week for those who want to know what's going on in Fontana(http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Formula-SAE-Sooner-Racing-Team/170128263021).

Good luck and safe travels to everyone!

[Drew Price]

I will try to get some info on my twitter account as the week goes on, it's @drewpprice (http://twitter.com/#!/drewpprice).

[StephenP.]

We've been in Ontario for the past few day's and are getting all prepped for design and cost.

See you all soon!

[Thrainer]

I have created a twitter list with 101 FSAE teams and individuals. You can follow it here: http://twitter.com/#!/amzracing/fsae

If there's an FSAE-related twitter user who's not in our list, let me know.

Good luck to the teams in California. Congratulations to GFR, I was surprised. I guess eCar won't have aero, it's got enough static downforce already http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

Regards
Thomas

[Dean Case]

For those of you visiting California for the first time, there are LOTS of automotive/motorsports attractions in the area. If, and I know that’s a big “IF”, you have any spare time, consider the following:

Wednesday Night Speedway Motorcycles at Industry Speedway. This is 30 miles from Auto Club Speedway (which means over an hour in LA traffic on a Wednesday evening). Speedway bikes are not the same as flat track bikes. These are alcohol fueled 500cc singles racing on an 1/8 mile dirt track. There are typically 40+ four-lap races in an evening, each race under a minute long. http://www.industryspeedway.com/ Admission is $10 for students.

Depending upon how late the awards go, there is Saturday night at Toyota Speedway in Irwindale http://www.toyotaspeedwayatirwindale.com/ This is about 35 miles from Fontana. This is a ½ mile paved oval – It’s almost a scale model of the track in Fontana. A first-class venue.

The Wally Parks Motorsports Museum (aka the NHRA Museum) at the LA County Fairgrounds. http://www.museum.nhra.com/ This is a wonderful collection of racer cars – not just drag racers either. Open Wednesday-Sunday, 10 am – 5:00 pm. Each year, the L.A. Roadsters puts on one of the largest roadster shows, swap meets, and commerical vendor shows in Southern California. ??In 2011, the 47th Annual Show will be held on Father's Day Weekend June 18th and 19th in Pomona, CA (adjacent to the Wally Parks Musuem). http://www.laroadsters.com/

For anyone flying into SoCal via LAX, there is a great car museum about five minutes from the airport, the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo. http://www.automobiledrivingmuseum.org/ Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10 am – 4:00 pm.

Looking for non-car events that affordable? The Los Angeles event calendar and guide to what's hip, happening and affordable can be found at http://www.laintheknow.com/

The Riverside International Automotive Museum covers the history of racing in Southern California, and has an outstanding collection of Maseratis. http://www.riversideinternational.org/

Other links/locations worth checking out:

• Porsche Owners Club and Drifting at http://www.willowspringsraceway.com
• Chumpcar at http://www.buttonwillowraceway.com/
• Indoor karting at http://www.k1speed.com/ontario-location.html
• Vintage cars http://nethercuttcollection.org/
• Biggest bookstore devoted to car books http://www.autobooks-aerobooks.com/
• Like vintage aircraft? http://www.planesoffame.org/
• Another car museum… http://www.petersen.org/
• Toyota has a nice corporate collection that is open to the public (hours vary as it is often used for group events, but it is free) http://toyota50th.com/pdf/toyusamusbroch.pdf
• Motocross in nearby Perris. http://www.perrismx.com/
• And more motocross at Glen Helen http://www.glenhelen.com/
• Art Deco cars at http://www.mullinautomotivemuseum.com/
• If visting the OC http://www.marconimuseum.org/
• Get your kicks on Route 66… http://www.califrt66museum.org/
• Not the closest motorcycle shop to Fontana, but Malcolm Smith is a legend in the sport, and he has a mini museum of his career upstairs from the showroom. http://www.malcolmsmith.com/

[D Collins Jr]

Wednesday Update:
As of 2 PM today, I counted about 54 teams that have cars on site (of 80 registered). I believe that about 25-30 teams made it into tech inspection today, and I don't know how many made it out with a sticker. The lightest cars, that I know of so far, are Wisconsin-Madison at 331 lbs and Oklahoma at 338. For those that are trying to follow from abroad, tilt table (and fuel) open tomorrow morning. I'll plan on posting more updates tomorrow as scores are published onsite.

[StephenP.]

Grizzlies Racing - 1st car into tech inspection and first car through tech inspection!

Don't get to say 1st too often yet, hopefully we've got a few more opportunities coming!

[jordan.k]

Congrats to OU on the weight. Breaking the lightweight car misconceptions: spaceframe, Ape and big aero. Should be an interesting comp with all of the aero cars fighting it out. Hopefully a preview for next year in Lincoln?

[bob.paasch]

ETS is also around 331 lbs. We're at 358 with the wings and undertray.

[Kirk Feldkamp]

Anyone have the design semis list?

[bob.paasch]

Design semi-finals:
Washington
Oregon State GFR
Bath
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
ETS
Missouri S&T

Three singles, two twins and two four.
Singles and twins all on 10" Hoosiers. M S&T the only car shod with Goodyears.
Three cars with wings, plus UW with an undertray.

[Prof McCarthy]

This is a link to the SAE Socal facebook site with photos of Thursday at 2011 FSAE California:
https://www.facebook.com/media...0.326074.92647534369 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150214844764370.326074.92647534369)

[spierson]

I have been posting our status on twitter, twitter.com/drexelfsae

[AxelRipper]

Been updating our happenings at www.facebook.com/ketteringfsae (http://www.facebook.com/ketteringfsae)

[bob.paasch]

Design finals:
Bath
ETS
GFR

[SAE_intl_girl]

Top Four Teams presenting at tonights Presentation Highlights :
Univ of Washington
Univ of Alberta
Univ of Texas - Austin
Cal State Univ - Los Angeles

Congratulations to those teams!

[Rachel]

Does anyone know the schedule for tomorrow?

[SAE_intl_girl]

Originally posted by Rachel:
Does anyone know the schedule for tomorrow?

Endurance walk for drivers starts at 7:45 am until 8:15 am then first car should be on track by 8:30.

I will be posting run order on this link tonight once autocross event has been scored.

[D Collins Jr]

By our books (so highly unofficially, Oklahoma takes skidpad with a 4.87 average, and ETS was fastest in accel at 3.91 (I believe). Autocross from 1:30-4:30. It's on 91.9 FM locally. I'll leave it tonspmepne official to say if that's mirrored online anywhere.

[D Collins Jr]

Oregon state wins autocross followed by Kansas, Maryland, ETS, Missouri S&T, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Illinois, New Mexico, and RPI. All unofficial of course. Alberta won cost event. As of now and on my spreadsheet, GFR and ETS bold a commanding lead over the rest of the field. Should be a good endurance tomorrow, I'll be counting on kaley or someone to have good updates during the day.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Originally posted by D Collins Jr:
Oregon state wins autocross followed by Kansas, Maryland, ETS, Missouri S&T, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Illinois, New Mexico, and RPI. All unofficial of course. Alberta won cost event. As of now and on my spreadsheet, GFR and ETS bold a commanding lead over the rest of the field. Should be a good endurance tomorrow, I'll be counting on kaley or someone to have good updates during the day.

I will do my best! Also I will posting Endurance Run Order tonight as soon as i get them.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Hey Teams...
Sorry about delay hotel internet has not been fast; however I see Mike (Endurance Captain) has posted run order on another link:

http://fsae.com/eve/forums/a/t...607348/m/39520890051 (http://fsae.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/825607348/m/39520890051)

[Prof McCarthy]

Photos from Friday at 2011 FSAE California are available at the SAE SoCal section site: https://www.facebook.com/media...0.326402.92647534369 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150215870544370.326402.92647534369)

[Prof McCarthy]

Photos of Friday 2011 FSAE California are at the SAE SoCal facebook site: https://www.facebook.com/media...0.326402.92647534369 (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150215870544370.326402.92647534369)

[SAE_intl_girl]

So it is race day...I will doing my best to post as much updates as possible during the endurance event. Besides fastest times, breakdowns and successful runs...what would the audience like to additionally know? Let me know

[Sam. B.]

I think fastest times, breakdowns and successful runs will be fine. What you did in MI was perfect. I can't wait for the start!

[SAE_intl_girl]

So we are getting ready...track is hot and entering now is Oregon

[SAE_intl_girl]

Oregon is struggling on first lap with their time being 93 seconds but he appears to be stopped at timing line with a shifting problem. Oregon could be in serious trouble and volunteers are yelling chain is off.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Sadly top contender Oregon was pushed off track and given DNF.

On another note Kansas is on track with a time of 79 seconds for their first lap however it appears thy missed a slalom on track during that lap...that's going to add more time.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Kansas shaving time off second lap with a second lap time of 70 seconds

Wow...Maryland on first lap getting a fastest lap time of the morning with a 67 second run. Maryland getting a 64 on second lap. My fingers might not be able to go this fast!

kansas with a black flag and short talk.

[SAE_intl_girl]

ETS on track and second lap with faster time than first with a rum of 67.3 seconds

[SAE_intl_girl]

Kansas is lapping pretty consistent with a 70 second lap time.

Maryland is consistent at about 65

Oklahoma has now entered the track. Currently we have Kansas, Maryland, ETS, Missouri and Oklahoma on track

Maryland still having fastest lap time.

Oklahoma first lap time was 71 seconds

[SAE_intl_girl]

Missouri with new fastest time...64.2 seconds

[SAE_intl_girl]

Maryland driver change and back on track

[SAE_intl_girl]

Kansas in driver change and having problems.

ETS was also in driver change but re-entered track before Kansas

[SAE_intl_girl]

Missouri now in driver change.

Officials hovering around Kansas car and verdict is a DNF due to an oil leak.

Missouri is pushing car away also with oil leak.

Oklahoma is in driver change now...will a restart be in their future?

[SAE_intl_girl]

On track is ETS, Maryland, Wisconsin and New Mexico.

And Oklahoma restarts!!

[SAE_intl_girl]

Wisconsin in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Maryland has finished!

First team to complete the event.

ETS also just pulling in for a finish.

CONGRATS!

[SAE_intl_girl]

On track:
Illinois
Wisconsin
Oklahoma
RPI
U. Washington
New Mexico

[SAE_intl_girl]

New Mexico breaks axle on course during lap 8. DNF for New Mexico

[SAE_intl_girl]

Illinois in for driver change.

Oklahoma third team to finish successfully.

Illinois restarts and heads to start line

[SAE_intl_girl]

Wisconsin has received the final checker.

[SAE_intl_girl]

RPI unfortunately we just got word broke on course and they will receive a DNF.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Univ of Bath on track. Their first lap time is a 72

[SAE_intl_girl]

Washington in for driver change.

Bath second lap time is a 68.

Texas - Austin holding consistent lap times at 68.

Washington with a restart!

[SAE_intl_girl]

Bath down to a 66 second lap time.

MIT on track with fastest of 73 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Bath consistently holding lap times at 66 seconds.

MIT shaving off some time with a 70 second lap...best lap time yet.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Texas - Austin in driver change.

Western Washington on track with fastest time of 71.8 seconds...but not consistent with lap times.

Illinois given final checker! Fifth to complete endurance with good results.

Texas - Austin restarts and heads to starting line to re-enter the track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

San Jose State on track.

Bath coming in driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

San Jose with a lap time of 74 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

MIT in for driver change.

Bath restarts engine and heads to start line for re-entry on track.

U. Washington receiving a DNF on course as they are towed off course.

MIT restarted and heading to start line.

Western Washington in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Drexel is on course. Fastest lap time at moment is 73 seconds on second lap

[SAE_intl_girl]

Western Washington with a restart in driver change and back on course.

[SAE_intl_girl]

San Jose pulled in for driver change.

Texas - Austin pulled in for a finish.

Western Washington pulled in on their own into driver change after stalling near last turn on their 13th lap...now they are pushing their car away from event.

[SAE_intl_girl]

19th car in run order has entered endurance track and we are only one hour into event.

Bath has received the final checker! Congrats to the lads from across the big pond.

Drexel has pulled into driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

MIT with a final checker!

[SAE_intl_girl]

On track Rutgers, San Jose State, UC Berkeley and Cal State Fullerton...but getting towed off course is Berkeley.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Oakland entering the track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State Fullerton in driver change.

San Jose State gets final checker and completes endurance.

Cal State Fullerton restarts and heads to starting line.

Alberta enters the course.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Rutgers in for driver change.

Lap times of current teams on track:
Oakland with a 70.6
Oregon Inst of Tech with 75.1
Drexel with a 72.9
Alberta with a 75.0
Rutgers with a 72.9
Cal State Fullerton with a 74.8

Oregon Institute of Tech in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

OIT restarts and heads to start line

[SAE_intl_girl]

Drexel finishes endurance with a checker!

[SAE_intl_girl]

Sorry...had to take a break and during that break I missed Kettering entering and unfortunately exiting th course due to breaking on track during second lap.

V8 Racing pulled in for black flag for missing several blue flags; however team also received checker for driver change.

Oakland finished endurance receiving the checker!

[SAE_intl_girl]

South Florida
Queens
Honda Technical College
Manitoba
V8 Racing
Cars currently on course.

Alberta receives final checker and comes off while Kansas State starts.

Run order is at 30th assigned in 2 hours.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Queen's coming in for driver change. USF also in driver change. Let's see who's first back on track...race within a race?

[SAE_intl_girl]

Missouri though receiving a DNF on endurance did set the lowest lap time with a time of 63 seconds

And for that driver change race...USF wins. Queen's is still trying to restart.

Meanwhile in driver change now is also Honda Technical College.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Awh and just as I hit the post button...Queen's received a DNF in driver change and is pushing the car away from event.

Kansas State passing timing line sounds like they are having some issues...maybe drivetrain or clutch?

V8 Racing receiving the checker resulting in 16 cars completing endurance currently.

Manitoba in driver change.

Cal Poly Pomona now on track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Manitoba successfully re-entering track after driver change.

Bad news for Kansas State as they apparently broke on course during lap 9.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Congratulations to USF for receiving a checker to finish endurance.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Portland State now on course.

South Dakota State in for driver change.

And receiving the checker for a finish is Honda Technical College.

Cal Poly Pomona currently fastest car on track with a 72 second lap time.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal Poly Pomona in for driver change.

South Dakota State re-entered track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

UC Irvine has joined the party on track.

Manitoba has finished and left endurance.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal Poly Pomona started and entered track. Let's see if driver 2 holds best lap times of this group.

[Rex Chan]

It sounds like quite a few cars DNF'd in the restart. Is it usually this common? I wonder if there is a relationship between testing time and enduro restarts?

We did quite a few enduro simulations in the run up to comp (FSAE-A 2010), and the only issue was with our second enduro restart: we'd hit the barrier during practice, and the idle went up from 4000RPM to like 7000RPM. As a result, the engine stalled if the revs dropped.

[SAE_intl_girl]

36th car in run order has crossed the starting line.

[SAE_intl_girl]

UCSD dragging a cone enters into driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Portland State pulled into driver change.

UCSD refires engine for track entry for second driver.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Univ of Victoria in for driver change.

Portland also with a successful engine refire to track entry.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Victoria with a refire and entry onto track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal Poly Pomona finished with a checker!

South Dakota State getting a black flag and pulling into driver change area...apparently just a warning. They have one more lap but pulled onto track and really struggling to get moving.

[SAE_intl_girl]

South Dakota State does finish however with lap time of 239 seconds...

[KGilmar]

Any course times for UVic?

[SAE_intl_girl]

UCSD unfortunately DNFs on course on last lap...ashame as they might have finished a lap ago if not stuck behind South Dakota State last lap of 239 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Originally posted by KGilmar:
Any course times for UVic?

76.77 was best lap time.

[SAE_intl_girl]

UNAM car 36 in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

UC Irvine receiving checker flag for a finish resulting in 24 successful finishes.

Univ of Arizona gets black flag for a driver talk.

ITCH comes in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

With cars on track times are consistent with a 80 - 82 seconds.

UNAM car 36 DNF on lap 13 due to losing a tire on course.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Univ of Arizona in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Delaware in for driver change.

Saskatchewan pushes away from driver change area due to leak as volunteers throw down some dry spill.

Another fatality with dying on course is car 29 ITCH on lap 15.

Delaware refutes and enters track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Currently on track is Delaware and Arizona who will wrap up the morning heat run before volunteer lunch break.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Holding fastest times between Delaware and Arizona is Delaware with a time of 77.6 whereas Arizona is a 78.7.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Arizona finishes!

[SAE_intl_girl]

Delaware with a checker!

First time finishes for Arizona and Delaware.

Lunch break stoppage. Race will resume in one hour with University of Hartford taking th course.

[SAE_intl_girl]

And we are back from the lunch break with Hartford crossing the starting line and completing their first lap with a time of 94 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State LA at the starting line and entering the track. Their first lap time is a 92 seconds.

Hartford shaving some time down to 90 seconds.

Cal State LA shaving time down to 85 seconds.

Guelph University now on track.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Hartford down to 88 seconds

CSULA down to 83 seconds

[SAE_intl_girl]

UC Davis on track with a time of 100 seconds

[SAE_intl_girl]

ESIA San Luis Potosi is on track and their first lap time of 115 seconds

And UC Davis is DNF for mechanical on course.

Hartford pulls in for driver change.

Montana on track with their first lap time of 89 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State LA in for driver change.

Hartford with successful refire and course entry.

Montana last time around was 83 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

ESIA gets a DNF on lap 4.

Xiamen just pushed off starting line only to struggle at timing line with keeping engine fired. Team pushes car away from event.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Montana in for driver change.

And in queue line it looks like San Deigo State is pushing away; appears to have a busted transmission chain?

[SAE_intl_girl]

Hartford with a successful finish.

USC broke on course giving them a DNF.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State LA with a finish!

[SAE_intl_girl]

Montana with DNF on their 13th lap.

[SAE_intl_girl]

CSU Fresno enters on track and their first lap time is 94 seconds.

Guelph receives the checker bringing total finishes up to 29 cars.

Two more cars (Cal State Sacramento and UAEMex Racing) yet to start on track but waiting in queue.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State Sacramento gets black flag for a driver talk as they missed same slalom twice.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State Fresno in for driver change.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Lap times this late afternoon are about a consistent low 83 - 85 seconds.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State Fresno failed to restart in driver change resulting in an DNF.

Cal State Sacramento is now in driver change...will they suffer the same fate?

UAEMex Racing just entered and with their first lap completed had a time of 121 seconds

[SAE_intl_girl]

UAEMex Racing getting a black flag for missing the first slalom. Quick talking to the driver by officials and they will re-enter.

Cal State Sacramento started engine and re-entered course.

[SAE_intl_girl]

Cal State Sacramento finished with a checker.

UEAMex Racing failed to restart in driver change.

2011 FSAE California Endurance is now over!

Thanks everyone.

[Jon Oneill]

Awesome coverage. This is the kind of thing we need at every event.

Thanks.

[FSAE.com]

Formule ETS wins 2011 FSAE California! (http://www.fsae.com/winner_fsaew.shtml)

Top 5 Overall
1. Formule ETS - École de technologie supérieure
2. Sooner Racing Team - Oklahoma
3. Wisconsin Racing
4. University of Maryland
5. Relentless Team Bath Racing

[RacingManiac]

Congrats ETS! Was this the first overall win for them?

[Wildcat_Alum]

Here is link to a collection of pics from this weekend. I caught most of Autocross, and some of Endurance, along with the paddock and other areas. I'll continue uploading once I get back to a real internet connection. Feel free to use/download/comment any of the pics.

Formula SAE 2011 California (http://jonschwab.smugmug.com/Formula-SAE/2011-Season)

UofArizona finished endurance for the first time, congrats to them, and everyone else for a great competition.

[Scott Wordley]

Great coverage, thanks for the updates.
I know a lot of our team, myself included, were sitting round at 3am, busily hitting the refresh button to see how it played out... FSAE tragics!

Congrats to ETS on taking the win.
Apparently you don't need aero after all to win West!
Also great to see Sooner and Maryland up there, but a shame a lot of the other fast teams dropped out. Would have been interesting to see how fast GFR could have gone with a few more laps, and S&T and Kansas were obviously very quick. Does anyone know how fast UIUC were lapping? From pics I have seen their aero looked awesome.

Also what was the story with UTA this year? They didnt go to East or West? Was looking forward to seeing how they interpreted the new aero rules...?

[plak424]

Anyone know where Hartford placed?

[P. Jayaraman]

Likewise from here, congratulations to every team that made it out there!

With respect to Illinois' performance in endurance, we weren't exactly able to extract the full potential of the car. We were unfortunately running a bit on the high side with respect to oil temperature and had to ask our drivers to be somewhat cautious (we suspect oil overheating as a cause of our DNF at Michigan's endurance event)

[Umur Selek]

Lots of pictures on our facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RutgersFormulaSAE

[RStory]

My photos from autocross:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/r...s/72157626879928021/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertstory/sets/72157626879928021/)

[spierson]

What an event. There were so many competitive teams this year, great job to all that showed, I was really impressed with the number of really fast cars that I saw.

[Steeeeeeeeeeve]

Here is a set of pictures from autox and endurance that I took.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/t...185/with/5851413067/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triton_racing/sets/72157626878293185/with/5851413067/)

Steve Lee
UCSD

[Marshall Grice]

Found a lot of excellent photos, not taken by me.

http://www.ikonique.com/Events/2011_0618_FSAE/

[Umur Selek]

This is terrible:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLTWhYvnmQw

[Mike Cook]

Scores Posted on SAE. That was quick.

I had a great time this year. The event was very well run and it will be a shame to see California for the last time. Thank you to all of the SAE workers that made this event great again.

Mike

[spierson]

Originally posted by Umur S:
This is terrible:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLTWhYvnmQw

That's a shame.

[Sormaz]

Originally posted by Scott Wordley:
Great coverage, thanks for the updates.
I know a lot of our team, myself included, were sitting round at 3am, busily hitting the refresh button to see how it played out... FSAE tragics!

Congrats to ETS on taking the win.
Apparently you don't need aero after all to win West!
Also great to see Sooner and Maryland up there, but a shame a lot of the other fast teams dropped out. Would have been interesting to see how fast GFR could have gone with a few more laps, and S&T and Kansas were obviously very quick. Does anyone know how fast UIUC were lapping? From pics I have seen their aero looked awesome.

Also what was the story with UTA this year? They didnt go to East or West? Was looking forward to seeing how they interpreted the new aero rules...?

To expand on Prashant's comments, take our times with a grain of salt. For AutoX laps 2-4 we were stuck in 2nd gear, and endurance was a battle against engine heat. Our first 5 laps of oil temp went something like this: [200,250,290,299,310]
We crossed the finish line with an oil temp of 340F and an engine temp of 129C...it was quite amazing

I know these issues are the name of the game and every team has there own "if only" situations, but I also know our car had some better times in it.

[Umur Selek]

Results:



http://www.sae.org/images/cds/...08571237_Binder1.pdf (http://www.sae.org/images/cds/selfservice/308571237_Binder1.pdf)

[Thrainer]

Wow, that Tilt test must be the error of the month. At least three things went wrong catastrophically.

I didn't know there were so many prices to win at US competitions. Eight tires and 5k USD for the winner, not bad at all. Seems like Maryland will be able to do a nice comparison between Hoosier (4 new tires) and Goodyear (6 new tires) if they want to.

Congratulations to all teams. Looking forward to seeing GFR (with wings?), RIT and ETS at FSG.

[DMuusers]

Originally posted by Umur S:
This is terrible:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLTWhYvnmQw

This is unacceptable! I hope the driver is ok!

[Mazur]

What exactly went wrong with the TILT test? How did the operator not notice the extreme angle?

[rmk36]

Originally posted by Mazur:
What exactly went wrong with the TILT test? How did the operator not notice the extreme angle?

It clearly states in the rule book 60 degrees (plus or minus 20 degrees)...haha

[Some Guy]

It looks like that little orange thing the operator is looking at is an angle finder. Either the needle or bearing inside it may have gotten stuck. With how quick the transition from 45-60 degrees happens I could see you going right past that if there is no travel stop.

[Pete Marsh]

Congratulations ETS on a commanding win. 916 points!

I have always been a fan of your cars ever since I saw the awesome looking '06 car.

Accel, enduro and nearly fuel. Impressive. Any tricky system to the accel win? or is it just that fast?

Pete

[Sam. B.]

They hired Harry Potter to put some magic inside their tires :P

Congratulations ETS! I hope your results in Germany will be as good.

Sam

[SAE_intl_girl]

Originally posted by spierson:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Umur S:
This is terrible:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLTWhYvnmQw

That's a shame. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

FSAE and the volunteers working the tilt table regret the incident involving the UC Davis team. We are grateful no injuries were sustained and the car was able to finish the competition. Precautions were put into place to ensure this does not happen again in the future.

[Fantomas]

First the terrible brake test accident at FSUK2010 and now this.

When do the organizers learn that they have to be at least as professional as the top teams are?

Fantomas

[Sormaz]

Originally posted by Fantomas:
First the terrible brake test accident at FSUK2010 and now this.

When do the organizers learn that they have to be at least as professional as the top teams are?

Fantomas
Don't knock the organizers and techs. They put on an amazing production and we should be nothing but thankful for that.

Don't forget that even the best of the best competing teams have equally embarrassing moments here and there...

[Umur Selek]

In my opinion, they should get free admission next year as an apology.

[Dean Case]

Since many of you were unable to attend the presentation feedback session at Fontana, I wanted to share my notes.

2011 FSAE-California Biz Feedback Notes

Our veteran judges, some who have been here all six years, advised the overall quality was the best they have seen.

This years’ group of judges was the best ever (IMO). We had representatives from Mazda, Toyota, Hyundai, KIA, Suzuki, and Coda. We had journalists, academics and retired racers. We even had a former F1 team manager.

There were several near perfect scores. The top five were all viewed as amazing.

Preparation – It was OBVIOUS who did and did not prepare.

Showing up late in flip-flops and torn jeans and no presentation – just winging it. Really?

To paraphrase Scottish literary critic Andrew Lang; “Many of you use Powerpoint like a drunken man uses light-posts….for support rather than illumination.”

There is a phrase know in industry as “Death by Powerpoint”. Fancy graphics are great if they help you TELL THE STORY. Ask yourself if they did that?

One of the top-five teams used no powerpoint whatsoever. Content and delivery outweighed the lack of fancy graphics.

Handouts – About half of the teams had nothing. Really? Would you go to a job interview with no resume?

For those teams speaking English as a second language, we had very positive comments overall. An outstanding job.

Enthusiasm – The judges, especially the rookie judges, were surprised at how little enthusiasm many of you showed. Not sure if this was nerves, lack of sleep, or having the wrong team members doing the presentation. I KNOW you are enthused, but it failed to show in many instances.

Get help from within your school. Is there any competing university that does NOT have a business department?

Did you videotape your presentation? Why not? How will next years team improve?

Comments from top presentations:
“Extremely good market analysis”
“Original approach”
“Well balanced”
“Nice handouts”
“Outstanding delivery”
“Answered questions well”
“Good energy”
“Students well dressed”
“Well thought out”
“Good talk of customer relationship”
“Excellent financial analysis”
“Great use of team members to answer questions”

Comments on poor presentations:
“Bare-bones”
“Finished too early”
“Ran late”
“Showed up late”
“Blank stare instead of answers”
“No real financial proposal”
“Did they even read the rules”
“Poorly dressed”
“No presentation, just winged it”
“I expected a lot more from a school like……”
“Sloppy presentation”
“Needs to read rule book”
“Made poor use of time.”
“Wasted time in set-up.”
“No sense of market.”
“No clear idea of marketing.”
“Not compelling.”
“Work on delivery.”
“Unsure of what they were pitching.”
“No slides. No show and tell parts. Nothing.”

I've enjoyed supporting this event since 2006 and wish everyone well in Nebraska, Michigan, or wherever you compete in 2012. My goal remains to assist as many of you as possible in finding gainful employment in the industry. My favorite moment was last year when one of the judges DEMANDED a resume from one of the presenters -- he was THAT IMPRESSED with what he had seen that he wanted to talk career options.

[Sisyphus]

I second Dean's comments about the quality of the cars at the 2011 event.

The design and prep state of the cars we saw in Tech was much better throughout the field this year--very consistent throughout. The top half are always well prepared but we didn't have a bunch of dogs this year that needed a lot of work to pass. You guys must be doing a better job of reading the rules and Tech appreciated that! Not a bunch of 3-4 hour tech jobs with numerous trips to the welder! I recall only one "no hope" entry this year.

I think the requirement to submit drawings of your chassis with your SEF helped as we were able to point out problem areas so you could fix things before showing up at the competition. Any comments on this point?

Also, I think assigning random tech order numbers beforehand was an improvement to the process. It certainly was better than last year's "land rush" cluster! If we were to do it again in CA, we would need to fine tune things, of course. We would need to make sure that our order list in Tech gets updated when you swap numbers, and we needed a way to post the current number more prominently. Any comments from the Teams on this aspect?

Overall, I think it was the best FSAE-CA event and kudos to the Teams for doing a really good job throughout the field on their designs and preparation!

Gerry LaRue
Chief of Tech Inspection

[Dean Case]

KBB was at the California FSAE Competition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEQ3gUniDcc

[Mike Cook]

Tilt test gone bad on fox news?
http://video.foxnews.com/v/1315756816001/?test=faces