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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)
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)
Sergio Perez (MEX) Sahara Force India F1 VJM07..
Canadian Grand Prix, Friday 6th June 2014. Montreal, Canada.
Sergio Perez (MEX) Sahara Force India F1 VJM07..
Formula One Testing, Bahrain Test One, Day Four, Saturday 22nd February 2014. Sakhir, Bahrain.
Jolyon Palmer (GBR) Sahara Force India F1 VJM07 Test Driver..
Formula One Testing, Day One, Tuesday 25th November 2014. Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Photo taken for the community-based tourism project Rutas del Sur developed in Venezuela by the Programa Andes Tropicales fundation.
Foto tomada en el marco del proyecto de turismo de base comunitario Rutas del Sur desarrollado en Venezuela por la Fundación Programa Andes Tropicales.
Photo prise dans le cadre du projet de tourisme de base communautaire Rutas del Sur développé au Venezuela par la fondation Programa Andes Tropicales.
Sergio Perez (MEX) Sahara Force India F1 VJM07..
Formula One Testing, Bahrain Test One, Day Three, Friday 21st February 2014. Sakhir, Bahrain.
Formula One Redbull Racing team driver David Coulthard drives his car past a mosque in Istanbul July 17, 2005. Coulthard drove his Formula One car over Bosphorus bridge on Sunday to become the first Formula One pilot crossing between Europe and Asia as part of a campaign for the upcoming first Formula One race in Istanbul. REUTERS/Ziynet Ozen-POOL