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- Houston, Texas, USA
- JMarine25
GTPlanet, I'm already kind of known for my college football reports each week. I'm not just trying to come up with anything and everything. But I wanted to create this thread to talk about motorsports competition among colleges and universities. Any form of motorsports from Baja racing to maybe some home-made race cars is perfectly fine here. This can be ANY collegiate effort in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, any form of college students getting involved in motorsports, this thread is open for discussion.
To start, I'll start with something called Formula SAE.
Okay, so it's not exactly a chance to see Michigan vs. Ohio State at Mid-Ohio or Lime Rock Park. So what is Formula SAE? It is an oppurtunity to see future race car designers and engineers compete in some one-off racing events including endurances. The most recent Road & Track magazine featured five universities which competed in some sweet competition. Those universities include:
University of Michigan {Ann Arbor, MI, USA}
University of Texas-Arlington {Arlington, TX, USA}
University of Wisconsin {Madison, WI, USA}
Cornell University {Ithaca, NY, USA}
Texas A&M University {Corpus Christi, TX, USA}
During this competition, Texas A&M won top honors. If I find pictures, I'll show you some of the cars designed by these five universities. What I will tell you is that Texas A&M's car looks pretty bad. This "Aggie-mobile" has a pretty blunt front of it. Fellow Texans, the University of Texas-Arlington, created a car that's damn near like a Star Mazda race car or something that you could race in the SCCA. I believe the UTA Mavericks developed a car using carbon fiber underbody. The Wisconsin Badgers developed a car with the Penske colors. You know, the white car with red accents like the Marlboro colors on cars. Michigan was big blue with maize accents, just like the Wolverines on the gridiron. The Big Red of Cornell had their own red car. But the most stylish was the Texas-Arlington ride.
In the future, I'll have pictures and maybe a website or two. Carry on, please.
(UPDATE!) SAE competion among colleges:
http://students.sae.org/competitions/ (SAE Racing series)
http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/ (Formula SAE Home)
http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/fsae/teamsites/ (The Teams)
http://fsae.uta.edu/ (The University of Texas-Arlington team mentioned earlier)
To start, I'll start with something called Formula SAE.
Okay, so it's not exactly a chance to see Michigan vs. Ohio State at Mid-Ohio or Lime Rock Park. So what is Formula SAE? It is an oppurtunity to see future race car designers and engineers compete in some one-off racing events including endurances. The most recent Road & Track magazine featured five universities which competed in some sweet competition. Those universities include:
University of Michigan {Ann Arbor, MI, USA}
University of Texas-Arlington {Arlington, TX, USA}
University of Wisconsin {Madison, WI, USA}
Cornell University {Ithaca, NY, USA}
Texas A&M University {Corpus Christi, TX, USA}
During this competition, Texas A&M won top honors. If I find pictures, I'll show you some of the cars designed by these five universities. What I will tell you is that Texas A&M's car looks pretty bad. This "Aggie-mobile" has a pretty blunt front of it. Fellow Texans, the University of Texas-Arlington, created a car that's damn near like a Star Mazda race car or something that you could race in the SCCA. I believe the UTA Mavericks developed a car using carbon fiber underbody. The Wisconsin Badgers developed a car with the Penske colors. You know, the white car with red accents like the Marlboro colors on cars. Michigan was big blue with maize accents, just like the Wolverines on the gridiron. The Big Red of Cornell had their own red car. But the most stylish was the Texas-Arlington ride.
In the future, I'll have pictures and maybe a website or two. Carry on, please.
(UPDATE!) SAE competion among colleges:
http://students.sae.org/competitions/ (SAE Racing series)
http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/ (Formula SAE Home)
http://students.sae.org/competitions/formulaseries/fsae/teamsites/ (The Teams)
http://fsae.uta.edu/ (The University of Texas-Arlington team mentioned earlier)
It sucks because I know I'd learn alot too...
