Formula SAE Lincoln 2015

[Cunningham]

While the Lincoln Airport is amazing and the city itself is pretty cool, moving the competition back to California (or perhaps Washington state) would result in many more interested volunteers and companies that are good matches for FSAE graduates.

At this point, given that both the US competitions are selling out, perhaps there is demand for a third event.

[K. Edwards]

Anyone notice that Lincoln posted the site map for 2015, except that it is last year's map? Was this a mistake, or are the autocross and endurance courses exactly the same as a year ago?

[raitinger]

Anyone notice that Lincoln posted the site map for 2015, except that it is last year's map? Was this a mistake, or are the autocross and endurance courses exactly the same as a year ago?

K,

Good catch, you can find the 2015 maps I posted here

I'll let SAE know they need to change it.

Lawrence

[Pennyman]

Any suggestions for where to follow this event other than this website?

[Mbirt]

From the FSAE Michigan thread:

There's some activity on the FSAE subreddit https://www.reddit.com/r/FSAE/ .
Links to Facebook and twitter feeds of FS events and teams were posted in the Michigan thread.
Twitter
Facebook

Hopefully, someone at the track can live post times or commentary.

[Alumni]

The rumor mill started swirling about a month ago that we might see some much improved coverage next year. (This is actually what brought me back to the forum recently.) Keep the pressure on and let SAE know that there is serious interest in it not only from alumni, but parents, girlfriends, and hardworking students that may not be able to make it to competition for whatever reason.

It provides more exposure for event sponsors so as long as the necessary upgrades to infrastructure don't break the bank, it's nearly a win-win.

[ausracing]

Just a quick (and hastly written because exams are getting closer) overview of the design finalists.
Pictures attached at the bottom and next post.
Good luck to everyone!

Car #2 Texas A&M University
600cc (Yamaha), space frame, pushrods, 281kg, World Ranking (WR) 15th


Car #3 University of Wisconsin Madison
KTM 525 EXC with turbo!, electric throttle and shifting, mono/space hybrid, 235kg, LC0, E85, done well in design past years, WR 74th


Car #6 Michigan State University
600cc, m/s hybrid, unequal legnth a-arms/push rod, R25B, 284kg, WR 29th


Car #8 University of California - Berkley
250cc Go kart engine!!!, (FYI Ecole from Canada ran a 250cc in ~2012? but had reliability issues, they are always top 3 in design at Michigan) spaceframe, 208kg, 20.9kW @8000rpm,


Car #9 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
At FSG last year with that awesome Aero car, WR 39th, 600cc, apparently DRS, spacef, 258kg


Car #45 University of Washington
Used to do FSG but think they stopped when they got an electric team (maybe wrong here, sorry in advance), had some cool aero in the past, yamaha 450F bored, DRS, GPS/Telemetry, full coque, LC0, 226kg, WR 28th


Car #86 Ohio State University
That front wing! DRS working (maybe only rear?), 257kg, 600cc, electric brake bias, R25B


Car #89 Western University
Hectic Aero, top ten michigan overall, 2nd in Formula Canada (FNorth), looks pretty spritely from videos, heading to Germany, WR 19th, 600cc (CBR), 275kg, DRS apparently, 1050mm track, twin mufflers

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Some cars have drivers in them when quoting their weight, just quoted off this
http://students.sae.org/cds/formulas...olnprogram.pdf

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Also can we keep this to just FSAELincoln and what happens there rather than a huge thread about how design events are/should run (Eg FSAEMichigan) that would be super

[ausracing]

Cars 45, 86, 89. Photos attached below.

[Swiftus]

Whoah. Everyone is way over 200 kg! (I read that some cars are w/driver, but why quote your car's weight w/driver?)

[JT A.]

Whoah. Everyone is way over 200 kg! (I read that some cars are w/driver, but why quote your car's weight w/driver?)

I think the survey that you fill out for the event guide asks you to list vehicle weight with 150lb or 175 lb driver