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Dartmouth Formula Racing rolls out their car at Formula Hybrid 2015.
Photo by Douglas Fraser.
Pastor Maldonado (VEN) Lotus F1 E23.
Formula One Testing, Day 2, Friday 27th February 2015. Barcelona, Spain.
G'day sports fans ... .up until a couple of years back I was heavily involved in our universities Formula SAE motor racing project.
In 2003 we took on the world in Detroit and Wollongong won the world championship - a feat previously not achieved in 23 years of competition. Our vehicle that year code named 'Stumpy' (the Wombat) set a new benchmark for SAE at the time.
The following year we returned to the US with "Sergio" our best attempt to date, but, like working with children and animals race cars can and will go their own way ... and we had a couple of minor issues with Serge - still for our money he was the best thing since sliced bread.
Fast forward 15 years an poor Serge had been thrashed and experimented on by every man and his dog - the rules for FSAE which is in fact a design competition state that a new vehicle is built for each year with rule changes making this necessary.
Serge became a restoration project for a few of the guys that built him (yours truly included) with the intent of seeing him 'concourse ready' again one day last year.
Last weekend a new event was trialled at Eastern Creek Motorsport Park dubbed - 'Formula Sydney' and Sergio was allowed to participate in his own 'demonstration class' (he doesn't meet the current rules to compete) he was still in need of some new components (including, critically, slick racing tyres) but he had his moment in the sun again - finally.
I was on his pit crew for the day on the Saturday- with access to the track and snagged a 'few' frames of Serge and couple of the other teams vehicles .. including the current Wollongong vehicles (there are two classes petrol and electric)
A team of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology students recently competed at the Formula SAE West competition, held June 13-16, 2007 at the California Speedway in Fontana, California. The School of Mines finished in sixth place overall against 80 registered teams. The competition consists of eight separate events including design, cost, manufacturing, sales presentation, skid-pad, acceleration, autocross and endurance.
Of these events, the team took tenth place in sales presentation, tied for sixth place in design (which marks the School of Mines team's first time in the design semi-finals), sixth place in autocross and seventh place in endurance. The team also placed third in the Design Communication Award presented by Autodesk.
Students conceive, design, fabricate and compete with small formula-style racing cars. The restrictions on the car frame and engine are limited so that the knowledge, creativity, and imagination of the students are challenged. The cars are built with a team effort over a period of about one year and are taken to the annual competition for judging and comparison with vehicles from colleges and universities throughout the world.
In addition to the team’s success, team advisor Dr. Dan Dolan was the recipient of the highest award which can be bestowed on any Formula SAE Advisor, the Carroll Smith Mentors Cup Award. The main criteria for the award is that the recipient will have given extraordinarily of personal time and expertise to help the students become professional engineers, will have developed a personal relationship with the team members and will have set a positive role model. This award recognizes Dr. Dan Dolan for his time and effort contributed to the development of project-based learning at the School of Mines.
Shoutout to all our volunteers—staff, reviewers, inspectors, judges, mentors, recruiters and sponsors! We couldn’t do it without you!
At the Formula Hybrid competition.
Sebastian Vettel (GER) Red Bull Racing RB10 stops out on track.
Formula One Testing, Day One, Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain, Wednesday 19 February 2014.
McMaster University during tilt test at Formula Hybrid 2015.
Photo by Patricio Sarzosa.
Kamui Kobayashi (JPN) Toyota TF109
Formula One Testing, Autodromo Algarve, Portimao, Portugal. 18 January 2009