Texas Autocross Weekend 2008

[Dr. Bob Woods]

UTA will be hosting the 8th annual "Texas Autocross Weekend" on 25 through 27 July 2008. The original intent was for Texas and Oklahoma schools to get together, but it has grown to a national event with schools from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, Canada, Alabama, South Dakota etc. joining us for a weekend of pure FSAE. This is a time to let your hair down and share secrets and drive each other's cars.

The venue is an open house Friday afternoon at the UTA shop to view our fleet of 18 cars and to do any last minute repairs. Friday night we will have a social at my house to view videos and play games. Saturday will be a practice at UTA's big lot with a FSAE course in the morning and a SCCA-style course in the afternoon. Saturday night will be another get together sponsored by Texas Engineering Systems to hear about new features of SolidWorks and Cosmos. On Sunday, we will attend the Equipe Rapide monthly autocross held at Pennington Field on a concrete parking lot.

Saturday's driving is open to anyone and will be timed by our local autocross club Equipe Rapide. ER will allow 3 or 4 drivers per car on Sunday.

Please e-mail me directly if you intend to attend.

-Dr. Bob Woods
Woods@uta.edu

[Dr. Bob Woods]

UTA will be hosting the 8th annual "Texas Autocross Weekend" on 25 through 27 July 2008. The original intent was for Texas and Oklahoma schools to get together, but it has grown to a national event with schools from Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Ohio, Canada, Alabama, South Dakota etc. joining us for a weekend of pure FSAE. This is a time to let your hair down and share secrets and drive each other's cars.

The venue is an open house Friday afternoon at the UTA shop to view our fleet of 18 cars and to do any last minute repairs. Friday night we will have a social at my house to view videos and play games. Saturday will be a practice at UTA's big lot with a FSAE course in the morning and a SCCA-style course in the afternoon. Saturday night will be another get together sponsored by Texas Engineering Systems to hear about new features of SolidWorks and Cosmos. On Sunday, we will attend the Equipe Rapide monthly autocross held at Pennington Field on a concrete parking lot.

Saturday's driving is open to anyone and will be timed by our local autocross club Equipe Rapide. ER will allow 3 or 4 drivers per car on Sunday.

Please e-mail me directly if you intend to attend.

-Dr. Bob Woods
Woods@uta.edu

[war eagle racer]

I'm going to have to ask the team but leave a spot open for Auburn

[Dr. Bob Woods]

Plans are progressing for our Texas Autocross Weekend. We have 6 teams registered: UTA (10 cars), U Texas (4 cars), KU (3 cars), OU (2 cars), SDSMT (2 cars), and LSU (no car). As of now, there will be 57 team members at the event. 53 will drive on Saturday and 38 will drive on Sunday.

I have not heard from some of the ususal suspects: U Houston, UTSA, KSU, WSU, UMR (by some other name), Letourneau, UNM, and Auburn. If you plan to attend, let me know ASAP.

-Dr. Bob Woods
Woods@uta.edu

[Mike Cook]

Bob, University of Maryland would love to come but its just to costly/time consuming right now. Were saving our money for nationals...see you all there.

Mike

[war eagle racer]

auburn will be coming with 3 cars

[Anvit Garg]

Dr Woods:

I have sent you an email regarding the attendance of the engineering side of FSAE at U of Houston.

I am not aware of the college of Technology's plans on attending with their vehicle.

[Dr. Bob Woods]

We had a great time at this year's Texas Autocross Weekend. Eight universities and 21 cars, three different tracks.

See summary posted at: http://fsae.uta.edu/Texas%20Autocross%20Weekend%202008%20Summary.pdf

-Dr. Bob Woods