Formula SAE California 2010 Competition: - Updates, Pictures, Stories, and More

[sbrenaman]

I didn't see a FSAEC thread yet.

Portland State - 2nd time at competition (with a car that works, last time was 2008), hoping to finish enduro! We're at the Hyatt Place at Ontario Mills.

[Corey H]

University of Arizona is also at the Hyatt...let the techno disco parties begin!!

Our first year with a car that has been driven, broken, and fixed before brake test!

[t21jj]

I'm told that Iowa State arrived in California last night.

Also ISU's first time to California.

[Dsenechal]

Good Luck everybody at West, wish I could be there. I cant wait to see pictures of everybodys cars!

[jpusb]

In this situation, I hate so much living so far away from the FSAE and Autocrosses world...

It's so frustrating to go just to 1 competition per year...

Please keep us updated with the cali event

[Chris Texas]

Did UTSA find a starter motor?

Chris Drew
Team Captain
longhornracing.com
The University of Texas Formula SAE

[tougeferio]

Yeah we scavenged the starter off of our F4i and it works great! Were at the hotel in Ontario putting some final touches on our car. Can't Wait to see all of yall there.

[Wesley]

Good luck to everyone!



And good luck Sooners!

[ttk3]

RIT repaired significant shipping damage and is ready to defend.

Good luck to all and be sure to keep us in the loop!

[c1inside]

Good Luck To all the teams!!!!!Polytechnic University of PR representin'!! Tech Inspection Tomorrow!! Hope All you guys pass the Tech Inspection!
We're At the Best Western in Ontario....Any other Teams here????

[Drew Price]

About 24 cars successfully through tech today, lots of promising looking cars, and most of the cars look like they have at least a little bit of run time on them.

Going to be busy tomorrow, we will try to get everyone else through as quickly as possible, looking forward to seeing how statics goes for everyone.

Best,
Drew

[Steve Yao]

UTSA, stream seems to be down.
Who is tweeting this? Any pics up?

[Ben K]

Drew,

What do you get to inspect? At least you aren't running after cones in the lots during dynamic events! http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

Ben

[Prof McCarthy]

Pictures from Day 1 of 2010 FSAE California can be seen at the SAE SoCal Section facebook page.

[Steve Yao]

U of Washington is thru tech and into practice area.
www.twitter.com/uwfsae (http://www.twitter.com/uwfsae)

[Drew Price]

I'm working tech inspection, and coursework for auto-x and endurance tomorrow and saturday, so no photos from me till tomorrow.

We've basically tech'd everyone who brought a car, at #51, looks like that's about all the cars there are.

Everyone is trying to squeeze into fuel and tilt and noise tomorrow, I think everyone who is together and running will make the dynamics appointments tomorrow.

More later, there is a lull in tech so I will go check out noise and walk the paddock to see the cars I passed yesterday and this morning.

Best,
Drew

[Prof McCarthy]

Pictures from FSAE California Day 2 are posted on the SAE SoCal Section facebook page.

[D Collins Jr]

Day 2 updates:

as of now, no static scores. Semis was rochester, s&t, Oregon state, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Kansas. For those paying attention, that's 4 wing cars and 6 trays.

Tech sped up today, and the car count seems high. Driving tomorrow!

[bob.paasch]

RIT, Oklahoma and Oregon State in the design finals. Coincidentally, all three headed to Formula Student Germany in August.

[D Collins Jr]

Design finalists have been announced, Oregon state, Rochester, and Oklahoma. 56 schools scored points in design, which j believe is the total at the event.

[chucked]

the University of Western Ontario is currently loving this california competition.

here are our results so far:
design 7th
skidpad 8th
acceleration 9th
business 10th
autocross 12th

looking forward to endurance, and hopefully a top 10 finish!

[Prof McCarthy]

Pictures for Day 3 of 2010 Formula SAE California can be found on the SAE SoCal Section facebook page.

[RANeff]

We at Colo State had some problems when we broke a CV outer spline shaft while setting up launch control this morning. We worked towards a fix, but had to BABY the car through Skidpad and Accel. A better fix was attempted which allowed us to complete some ok auto-x runs, but without any practice before auto-x we struggled with the extra power from the lower altitude and higher grip on the different surface. Still having fun though!

[cmeissen]

FSAE West Tire Temps

The tire temperatures we measured today at the competition are availalbe at the following link. We have not done any analysis of this data are just posting the raw data.

http://www.optimumg.com/FSAE%2...t%20Tyre%20Temps.zip (http://www.optimumg.com/FSAE%20West%20Tyre%20Temps.zip)

If you have any questions contact us at engineering@optimumg.com or come talk to us tomorrow.

Chris Meissen
OptimumG

[David C. Li]

University of Washington Car 47

Results so far:
Design 7th (9 Way Tie)
Skidpad 11th
Acceleration 2nd
Business 3rd
Autocross 6th

Pretty excited for Endurance tomorrow! Or in 9 hours or so..!

[bob.paasch]

First day dynamic: Missouri S&T took 1st in both Skidpad and Autocross, and GFR 1st in acceleration.

[scott_rfr]

So what's all this talk I am hereing about data systems being banned? Last I heard they were making teams take there data box out during autox to prove it didnt run the car from a cost event perspective. Now I am hereing about a possible rule to now allow data during endurance because they are afraid teams can control there car?

Scott
Rutgers SAE
2006-2010

[ttk3]

Originally posted by scott_rfr:...Now I am hereing about a possible rule to now allow data during endurance because they are afraid teams can control there car?
http://punxter.com/pics/M/ARC.jpg

As in Formula R/C?

[Lexusteck]

Can anyone post result sheets? We out here in the dark want to know what is going on.
Lexusteck
University of Kansas prehistoric alum

[BradyJ]

2nd that for results sheets!

Huge thanks to Prof McCarthy for the timely shots as well!

[ttk3]

Design Results:
1. OSU
2. RIT
3. Oklahoma

It's going to be a close one...

[Mike Cook]

Endurance was interesting:
UMR Broke
Oregon broke
South Dakota broke
Kansas broke
RIT finished but second driver was slow
Ohhhhklahoma looked good and made it through I believe.

[MegaDeath]

Originally posted by scott_rfr:
So what's all this talk I am hereing about data systems being banned? Last I heard they were making teams take there data box out during autox to prove it didnt run the car from a cost event perspective. Now I am hereing about a possible rule to now allow data during endurance because they are afraid teams can control there car?

They said in the drivers meeting for enduro that you cannot LOG DATA DURING THE DRIVER CHANGE.

Data is allowed, you just can't log it during the drivers change.

[Mike Cook]

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[MalcolmG]

can't log during the driver change? I can understand not being able to download it, but not log it? Doesn't seem to make any sense at all, and I can't imagine how they would even tell.

[bob.paasch]

Overall:

1) RIT
2) Oklahoma
3) Washington

[spierson]

Originally posted by MalcolmG:
can't log during the driver change? I can understand not being able to download it, but not log it? Doesn't seem to make any sense at all, and I can't imagine how they would even tell.

As I understood it, they did not want to have any teams changing things on the car during the race to gain any kind of advantage. The officials are unable to tell if you are just downloading data, or if you are changing variables. So to relieve the confusion, they said no data logging. They also mentioned that we could probably get away with data logging during the race without them knowing. They have said they have no way of enforcing it, so from my perspective it was more of a gentleman's agreement to not do it. You have to remember, they can't control who does it, so to keep things fair they don't let anyone do it.

Also, great results for Drexel.

10th in Autocross
10th in Fuel Economy
8th in Endurance

[chucked]

The University of Western Ontario, UWO Formula Racing, had a very satisfying competition. Finished FIFTH overall!

results:
Design: 7
accel: 9
Skidpad: 8
business: 10
autocross: 12
cost: 13
endurance: 7
fuel economy: 17th (for only 10.3pts)

Overall: 5TH!!!

we had some serious problems with the fuel system during endurance, some of the injectors got clogged, and the ECU compensated this by dumping a ton of fuel in the other cylinders, therefore we lost a lot of HPs and chugged 3.3kg of fuel. this cost us a lot of points, but we will make this doesn't happen again.

the lesson here is to make sure your fuel filter has a tighter screen than the size of your injector holes, we had a 40 micron fuel filter screen, I recommend going to a 10 micron screen.

All the best.

[jpusb]

Endurance was interesting:
UMR Broke
Oregon broke
South Dakota broke
Kansas broke
RIT finished but second driver was slow
Ohhhhklahoma looked good and made it through I believe.

That was unexpected! What happened to each of those teams?

[bob.paasch]

Originally posted by jpusb:

That was unexpected! What happened to each of those teams?

Our leftside inner tripod popped out of the housing. We don't know why yet, we'll probably take it apart later this week. I believe we were on the 21st lap.
Missouri S&T had an electrical problem and didn't get out of the driver change. SDSMT lost a head gasket on their ape.

[RacingManiac]

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 MalcolmG:
can't log during the driver change? I can understand not being able to download it, but not log it? Doesn't seem to make any sense at all, and I can't imagine how they would even tell.

As I understood it, they did not want to have any teams changing things on the car during the race to gain any kind of advantage. The officials are unable to tell if you are just downloading data, or if you are changing variables. So to relieve the confusion, they said no data logging. They also mentioned that we could probably get away with data logging during the race without them knowing. They have said they have no way of enforcing it, so from my perspective it was more of a gentleman's agreement to not do it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sounds more like you can't plug something into the car during the driver change....log, not log is not the issue.

[Bobby Doyle]

Originally posted by Mike Cook:
Endurance was interesting:
UMR Broke
Oregon broke
South Dakota broke
Kansas broke
RIT finished but second driver was slow
Ohhhhklahoma looked good and made it through I believe.

I think RIT's car was having issues - their second driver looked like he was just trying to finish. I don't know for sure, however. We lost shifting after the driver change - luckily the car was in second gear. Congrats to Washington for finishing endurance!

[LeedsUni23]

Hey all,

Sounds like a good competition! Unfortunately I couldn't head over from the UK because of a lack of money! I dont suppose any of you know how we (Leeds) got on? I spoke to one of the lads who was over there but he didnt even know how we had finished overall! Did any of you get a chance to see/speak to any of the lads from Leeds over there?

[Andy K]

We somehow managed to complete endurance after correcting our no-start problems from Michigan. Our drivers reported 240F water temperatures at one point, cooking the oil and clutch, but managed to limp it home. Looks like the engine is done, as it did not fire once back in the paddock. We'll be back next year at least 100lbs lighter.

[Sisyphus]

Leeds finished 17 in Endurance (out of 19 finishers) and 8th in Economy.

[DougH]

The +12V wire for our Main power relay had been ripped off during the driver exchange. One little wire. I don't think I'll be able to cope with that occurrence for a long time.

Doug
Missouri S&T
Engine guy

[TMichaels]

Originally posted by RacingManiac:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">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 MalcolmG:
can't log during the driver change? I can understand not being able to download it, but not log it? Doesn't seem to make any sense at all, and I can't imagine how they would even tell.

As I understood it, they did not want to have any teams changing things on the car during the race to gain any kind of advantage. The officials are unable to tell if you are just downloading data, or if you are changing variables. So to relieve the confusion, they said no data logging. They also mentioned that we could probably get away with data logging during the race without them knowing. They have said they have no way of enforcing it, so from my perspective it was more of a gentleman's agreement to not do it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Sounds more like you can't plug something into the car during the driver change....log, not log is not the issue. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I do not really get it, since you may use a wireless network to change parameters on the fly during endurance...without anyone noticing it.

According to rule B1.2.2 it is not prohibited to change engine parameters for example and of cause there is no difference if the driver changes this by switches on the steering wheel or if the race engineer does this via a radio data system...except for F1...

Regards,

Tobias

[RacingManiac]

While I agree with that I think it has more to do with the fact that you are not allowed to work on the car during the driver's change. And physically plugging in a cable be it as to download data or altering car parameter is probably considered a violation of that. As with any rule they can only police rules within what they are capable of policing, so wirelessly doing so is fair game I guess. But obviously not everyone has that capability...

[jpusb]

The +12V wire for our Main power relay had been ripped off during the driver exchange. One little wire. I don't think I'll be able to cope with that occurrence for a long time.

Doug
Missouri S&T
Engine guy

That's a shame. I really liked your car this year, one of my 3 favorites in MIS. What happened to you in MIS? I was arriving at the endurance (USB) and saw you guys leaving with the front wing broken but I never knew what actually happened.

I personally believe there should be two endurances per competition, and then the judges take your best time of the two, and maybe get extra points if you finish both, or something like that. That would be A LOT BETTER for foreign teams like mine, that can only go to ONE competition per year, and it's really frustrating and not inspiring at all to lose all that, all the trip to US, all the hard work through the year, just for something like a wire, or a f..ing chain. 'Cause it's not really rewarding to aim for the top ten and be back 27th or 37th. If there were two endurances, small teams could definitely learn A LOT more from the competition and grow up faster. But well.. that's the rules.

What happened to Kansas in the endurance?

[spierson]

Originally posted by jpusb:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">The +12V wire for our Main power relay had been ripped off during the driver exchange. One little wire. I don't think I'll be able to cope with that occurrence for a long time.

Doug
Missouri S&T
Engine guy

That's a shame. I really liked your car this year, one of my 3 favorites in MIS. What happened to you in MIS? I was arriving at the endurance (USB) and saw you guys leaving with the front wing broken but I never knew what actually happened.

I personally believe there should be two endurances per competition, and then the judges take your best time of the two, and maybe get extra points if you finish both, or something like that. That would be A LOT BETTER for foreign teams like mine, that can only go to ONE competition per year, and it's really frustrating and not inspiring at all to lose all that, all the trip to US, all the hard work through the year, just for something like a wire, or a f..ing chain. 'Cause it's not really rewarding to aim for the top ten and be back 27th or 37th. If there were two endurances, small teams could definitely learn A LOT more from the competition and grow up faster. But well.. that's the rules.

What happened to Kansas in the endurance? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Welcome to the world of motorsports. 2nd chances are something you just don't get. In acceleration and skid pad we had a couple ground wires come loose causing the engine to run terribly, had no idea until we got to the paddock. Stupid mistakes can have huge consequences. All you can do is learn from them and prevent it from happening again.

[jpusb]

Yeah I know the world of motorsports pretty well and you usually race in a season, and I've not seen seasons with less than 5 races.
What I mean is that, it's not the same to break a chain at MIS being a US team that can go to SCCA, FSAE WEST, Local AutoXs, etc. than to break it in the only competition you are able to go per year, which is overseas, and that shipment and travel taking half of your budget. What I'm saying is that it would be better for new teams, learning teams, and specially foreign teams, that's all.

[nick roberts]

What happened to Kansas in the endurance?

What didn't happen to us? One of the guys made a list during competition but i cant remember everything on it right now so heres a summary.

- Phantom electrical issues(we've all been there right?)
- Faulty fuel pump(killed our acceleration time)
- Sheared half shaft(Snap-ring groove cut too deep, no skid-pad time)
- Lost a cooling line during auto-x(led to blown head gasket after 1st run)
- Grenaded engine(assembly error due to hasty rebuild before competition)

I was really amazed that we were able to repair as much stuff as we did in the time we did during this competition. Its nice when a car designed to be maintenance friendly actually turns out that way. I believe the guys were able to swap engines and have the car running around 2.5hrs after the car blew the HG. Oh well, theres always next year right?

We would like to thank all the teams again that helped us keep going either with parts or machining during the event. It was awesome when 2 minutes after we announced we needed a half-shaft 6 teams showed up with parts. It really goes to show the nature of this competition and the people involved.

-Nick Roberts
University of Kansas

[RANeff]

I would like to second what Nick said. When we had to weld our outer CV carrier and we didnt have the correct welding rod, it took a mere 30 seconds for someone to donate the right stuff to us. I just hope we were able to do the same for some of the teams we tried to help

[jpusb]

Well that's a shame Nick, I really liked that car, other one of my 3 favorites at MIS this year, and one of the best looking cars I've seen in FSAE.

[ttk3]

Originally posted by Bobby Doyle:
I think RIT's car was having issues - their second driver looked like he was just trying to finish.

I'm told it was fueling issues. Bad for lap times, good for economy!

[RANeff]

How do we find out where phantom penalties came from?

[J. Vinella]

Originally posted by Bobby Doyle:
Congrats to Washington for finishing endurance!

Thanks man! It has been a long time coming. Ever since 2005 when we got 4th at west in a very strong field; we have been lurking in the shadows for too long.

The pinched fuel line at Detroit last year still kills me. Seeing all the top few cars go out before us on rain tires in endurance put the biggest smile on my face. But one lunch later that smile turned upside down.

For the most part it has always been the little things that got us. Don't dismiss the small stuff.

Poorly placed kill switch on 2008...the list goes on and on.

500lbs + wings + no TC or lunch control = 2nd in accl by only .01 seconds...cars got some balls. Congrats fellas.

[Rotary Sprocket]

I'm just really proud of our team and all the hard work they put in to get us to Cali. After blowing two motors in testing the week before we were suppose to leave, dropping in our last motor (which was from 2002), converting from a dry sump system to a wet sump system and testing it for two hours the night before we had to leave, I had doubts that we would even make it to competition. But all that hard work paid off and the 3rd place in endurance and 6th place finish overall was a great reward for our team (especially after our failure in Michigan).

[Drew Price]

I have some photos I snapped out on track of some of the cars during Auto-X, I will throw up a link when I get them uploaded.

It was a pleasure meeting everyone last week, I worked tech for the first two days, and it sure was eye-opening.

I tried very hard to make everyone realize that I had been there and knew how frustrating it could be. I was lucky to always have well-informed and reasonable tech inspectors for our cars, so I picked up some things to pass along that way. I was surprised with the number of inspectors who had never even volunteered at a competition before let alone read or memorized the rules, so my queue was able to get lots of cars in an out. I think I only had to have 2 cars leave to repair things and come back to get them signed off, I was very impressed with the thoughtfullness most of the cars had in their preparation.

I will throw this out there, it seems like I talked with lots of teams who had recently had lots and lots of leadership changeover:

DO NOT USE NYLOC NUTS ON YOUR BRAKING SYSTEM!!! You are just asking for trouble if you ask me, I wouldn't do it on my own car - technically it's allowed, but I advised the chassis person for each team that they may want to re-consider doing that for their next car.

I had notes from the endurance that I didn't get written down in time and forgot a lot of them, I think all the major stuff was basically covered.

The S&T car was blazin' fast during endurance, but the really impressive one to watch was definitely the Oregon State car, esp. the 2nd driver - the thumpy single and locked rear end was interesting to watch the different driving style for sure, and once it got some heat into and the 2nd driver got in it went from looking a little loose in the corners, to just looking rediculously slidey.

One thing I did notice standing out there was that just about every single team (even the top teams) who were running singles or twins were boucing the engine off the rev limiter several times per lap (especially Oregon St.), the 4-cyl cars only touched it a few times during their entire driver stint. Until you're really used to the car, and used to pushing it, the singles and twins just make such a weird sound that it can be hard to tell where the revs are at, just something I noticed from driving our own car.

Possibly something that contributes to reliability issues, maybe something to think about.

Best,
Drew

[Nice Vans]

Pictures from Endurance can be found on OU's facebook page:

http:// www. facebook. com/pages/Norman-OK/Formula-SAE-Sooner-Racing-Team/170128263021?v=photos#!/album.php?aid=178981&id=170128263021&ref=pb

See you guys in Germany!

[bob.paasch]

Originally posted by Drew Price:
The S&T car was blazin' fast during endurance, but the really impressive one to watch was definitely the Oregon State car, esp. the 2nd driver - the thumpy single and locked rear end was interesting to watch the different driving style for sure, and once it got some heat into and the 2nd driver got in it went from looking a little loose in the corners, to just looking rediculously slidey.


Just for the record, we run a clutch pack limited slip, and it is far from locked. I hope SAE will post the laptimes, should be interesting.


One thing I did notice standing out there was that just about every single team (even the top teams) who were running singles or twins were boucing the engine off the rev limiter several times per lap (especially Oregon St.), the 4-cyl cars only touched it a few times during their entire driver stint. Until you're really used to the car, and used to pushing it, the singles and twins just make such a weird sound that it can be hard to tell where the revs are at, just something I noticed from driving our own car.

Possibly something that contributes to reliability issues, maybe something to think about.

Best,
Drew

Our first driver, Phil, was driving his first FSAE/FS endurance race. Also, we drop the rev limit a bit from autocross to endurance to get better BSFC. The combination had him hitting the rev limit more than usual, but our tripod failure was unrelated.

[spierson]

Endurance lap times were posted, I believe they are on the last page of the results on the sae website.

[Drew Price]

Thanks for the correction Bob, I wasn't meaning to criticize, I was just trying to gel all my thoughts from standing out on the track, I had a lot better view of all the cars than I had when we were competing, since I wasn't putting all my concentration into my own car!

Best,
Drew

[tingra]

For all those looking for some pictures, we got the pics I took of the first 10 or so Endurance runs uploaded to our facebook page.

h t t p : //www. facebook.com/ profile.php?id=9635731#!/album.php?aid=178981&id=170128263021&page=2

Don't be surprised that most of the pics are of Oklahoma!

[bob.paasch]

Originally posted by Drew Price:
Thanks for the correction Bob, I wasn't meaning to criticize, I was just trying to gel all my thoughts from standing out on the track, I had a lot better view of all the cars than I had when we were competing, since I wasn't putting all my concentration into my own car!

I didn't take your post as criticism, and I appreciate your reflections from the track. My post was just meant to be factual.

Looking at the endurance lap times, Missouri was just as fast as they appeared to be from my vantage point on the stairs. My condolences to them.

[jpusb]

Originally posted by tingra:
For all those looking for some pictures, we got the pics I took of the first 10 or so Endurance runs uploaded to our facebook page.

h t t p : //www. facebook.com/ profile.php?id=9635731#!/album.php?aid=178981&id=170128263021&page=2

Don't be surprised that most of the pics are of Oklahoma!

That is a very good looking car, why don't you guys come to MIS anymore?

What were the track temperatures on that endurance?

Anyone had graining issues?

[sbrenaman]

Thanks everyone who helped us out, I hope we helped everyone out that we could. We ended up creating a tool signout sheet at one point http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

Thanks to:
OSU/GFR for fasteners for our steering wheel
______ for safety wire
I think Colorado State for the caulking gun

We are a new team and we felt right at home!

[DougH]

Originally posted by rp:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Drew Price:
Thanks for the correction Bob, I wasn't meaning to criticize, I was just trying to gel all my thoughts from standing out on the track, I had a lot better view of all the cars than I had when we were competing, since I wasn't putting all my concentration into my own car!

I didn't take your post as criticism, and I appreciate your reflections from the track. My post was just meant to be factual.

Looking at the endurance lap times, Missouri was just as fast as they appeared to be from my vantage point on the stairs. My condolences to them. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks for the compliments. We never had our sights off of GFR; stiff competition. The team really wants to attend one of the German competitions for the next season.

In the mean time, here is the FTD autoX run:

Missouri S&T Autocross (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-etR25Bb7H4&feature=player_embedded#!)

The business leader is in the process of compiling all our videos into a you-tube channel.

Doug
Engine guy

[Nice Vans]

Originally posted by jpusb:

That is a very good looking car, why don't you guys come to MIS anymore?



Thanks for the compliment. We have missed MIS the previous two years because our finals fall during the same week. Unfortunately, our Dean will not allow us to go. However, our advisor is working on that and hopefully we will be there next year!

[TMichaels]

Originally posted by DougH:
The team really wants to attend one of the German competitions for the next season.

There is only one http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Regards,

Tobi

[Wesley]

h t t p: //w ww.youtube.com/watch?v=GzMM9kfU8-Q

[chucked]

Hi, I am trying to find out how many cars were at the competition?, and how many had registered?

the event guide shows that university of akron had car #84, so does that mean there was at least 84 schools registered?

thanks for the help

[thewoundedsoldier]

Isn't that movie due for a remake?

chucked, according to the results 56 teams showed up for design & presentation, 54 for cost, 33 for accel, 32 for skidpad, 38 for autocross, and 44 for endurance.

[MegaDeath]

79 teams were registered.

I think 58 showed up.

[moose]

If you're interested in seeing which teams registered: go to the official FSAE website, then on the left nav bar - "Formula SAE Series" --> "Formula SAE California" --> "Registered Teams"

To see who showed up, just look into the competition results page, should have enough info to tell who showed, who competed, etc.

[Steeeeeeeeeeve]

I have some photos of the competition that you guys can check out at Flickr: Triton Racing - FSAE West (http://www.flickr.com/photos/triton_racing). We were just there to spectate this year.

[mariosav34]

Hey, sorry to revive old thread, but did someone receive the group picture (the one with all cars), if so what did you have to do to get it, because we were so busy trying to repair our car that we didn't even remember that until it was too late.

Or could someone that took a pic (even if it's not the official one) upload it somewhere or send me a PM or something so i can give you my email.

Thanks a lot!

Mario

[John Waldrop]

Does anyone have the event guide for this competition from 2010?

John