A few weeks ago was the Formula SAE competition at the AAA Speedway outside LA. There were over 50 teams from all around the world including Korea, India, Brazil and Columbia. Our car (Oregon State) ended up finishing 2nd overall, with 1st place finishs in the endurance race and the overall dynamic events (the competition has 2 parts, static events and dynamic events). While our car does not use areodynamics, and we're down 20-30 hp on most cars (we use a Honda CRF450 that does about 50hp, other teams use 600cc 4-bangers that do 70-80hp), we also weighed in at 307lbs wet. This meant we were over 100 lbs lighter than the average car there and were nearly as fast as all the high-hp cars with big downforce.
And yes, our car is a carbon-fiber monocoque. It's pretty sick :)
We're taking our car to the Hockenheim ring in Germany in August for their competition, and then to Austria the next week for another. The Germany event is the premier event in the world, attracting the very best teams.
I was lucky enough to get a media photography pass by agreeing to provide my photos to SAE for use on there website, so I thought I'd post up a few here for you all to see. I'm really happy with how they turned out!! FYI i was using a Canon XTi with a 70-200mm f/2.8.
OSU:
driving hard!
Rochester Institute of Technology (they got 1st place :angry:)
Renssellaer Poly:
University of Texas Austin had one of the best looking cars there:
Cal Poly Pamona:
UW. Northwest represent!!
Western Washington:
lockin' it up:
more driving hard!
University of Calgary:
Clemson:
University of Idaho:
University of Illinois:
Auburn:
Kansas:
Kookmin (S. Korea):
Maryland:
Missouri S&T:
Oklahoma:
Cal:
And yes, our car is a carbon-fiber monocoque. It's pretty sick :)
We're taking our car to the Hockenheim ring in Germany in August for their competition, and then to Austria the next week for another. The Germany event is the premier event in the world, attracting the very best teams.
I was lucky enough to get a media photography pass by agreeing to provide my photos to SAE for use on there website, so I thought I'd post up a few here for you all to see. I'm really happy with how they turned out!! FYI i was using a Canon XTi with a 70-200mm f/2.8.
OSU:
driving hard!
Rochester Institute of Technology (they got 1st place :angry:)
Renssellaer Poly:
University of Texas Austin had one of the best looking cars there:
Cal Poly Pamona:
UW. Northwest represent!!
Western Washington:
lockin' it up:
more driving hard!
University of Calgary:
Clemson:
University of Idaho:
University of Illinois:
Auburn:
Kansas:
Kookmin (S. Korea):
Maryland:
Missouri S&T:
Oklahoma:
Cal:
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