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I'm revitalizing my College Motorsports interests here. This time, I want to try to focus in on the different races. And in this thread, I'd like to focus on the eight different competitions in Formula SAE around the world. I won't say I'll religiously update this material, but I'll try. The website I'll be working with to read up on what happened is here:
http://www.fsae.com
Let me provide you an introduction.
--- INTRODUCTION TO FORMULA SAE ---
Formula SAE is a competition put on by universities and colleges worldwide to compete in a series of different tests. SAE stands for the Society of Automotive Engineers. SAE also sponsors other kinds of racing including Baja buggies, solar cars, and much more. Formula SAE has nothing to really do with competitive racing. But what it is about is for students to create a race car from CAD drawings to actual production. These cars must complete a series of tests including skidpad, acceleration, slalom, and even an endurance challenge. The majority of races take place in Autocross-style events in parking lots. There were even some events at race tracks. The cars are all built by students from start to finish. I believe you don't have to be a mechanical engineering major to take part in something like this. Just build a car, test it out, and go race. Two of my Extra segments in my college football threads mentioned the websites of certain race teams. Here are my two extras which touched up on Formula SAE:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2439110&postcount=1 (during Week 6)
Now if you're visiting this link and want to look up Illinois, here's an updated link courtesy of dougiemeats: http://www.mechse.uiuc.edu/clubs/sae/General/index.html
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2447803&postcount=2 (during Week 7)
Many more teams are out there. I just can't name all of them for you in one post. What I may do is update my website with a link of a host of other FSAE teams. But even that list is a work-in-progress like my college football and basketball "registries." Constantly updating it when I learn of a new team I haven't included.
Here are the winners from recent events:
- 2005 FORMULA SAE -
FSAE Brazil: USP Sao Carlos
FASE Australasia: Western Australia
- 2006 FORMULA SAE -
FSAE: RMIT (Australia)
FSAE West: Texas A&M
Formula Student: Toronto
FSAE Germany: TU Graz (Germany)
FSAE Japan: Sophia University (Japan)
FSAE Italy: Joanneum Racing Graz (Germany)
FSAE Brazil 2006 is currently going on as we speak. This is the thread I'd like to use for FSAE competition. My other thread, "College Motorsports" { https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=72563 } was a general thread involving colleges in racing. Most future race car enginners did some college work. Cars are graded in a variety of different fields including cost, aerodynamics, fuel consumption, and whatever else there is. Machines are powered by motorcycle engines. For example, one of the race cars by Texas-Arlington ( http://maepro.uta.edu/fsae/ ) was powered by a Honda CBR600 motorcycle engine. People here in America probably know most of the universities which compete here in America. There is no actual RACING of these cars against each other, but it would certainly be fun to have competitive racing action with all these different cars being fielded and campaigned. Imagine if all the SEC or ACC teams competed on the track at once in racing competition. Perhaps imagine if Florida State's FSAE race car was taking on North Carolina State's FSAE car. Or imagine Kentucky's machine matching wits against Florida or Mississippi State. I still think it would be interesting to see if universities and colleges could actually come up with a plan to have competitive racing. Or perhaps imagine if Texas and Oklahoma took their rivalry to the race track. I even joked that every school should field Radical SR3's painted up in school colors. So you could see Michigan and Ohio State colors. There are also non Division 1 schools that compete and even non-football schools competing like Portland, Texas-Arlington, Marquette (under construction), California State-Northridge, Drexel, and Alabama-Huntsville.
If I get any results from FSAE Brazil, I'll share them with you all. But this is the thread to talk FSAE competition. Let's see if I can get an audience or have some success discussing FSAE results here.
http://www.fsae.com
Let me provide you an introduction.
--- INTRODUCTION TO FORMULA SAE ---
Formula SAE is a competition put on by universities and colleges worldwide to compete in a series of different tests. SAE stands for the Society of Automotive Engineers. SAE also sponsors other kinds of racing including Baja buggies, solar cars, and much more. Formula SAE has nothing to really do with competitive racing. But what it is about is for students to create a race car from CAD drawings to actual production. These cars must complete a series of tests including skidpad, acceleration, slalom, and even an endurance challenge. The majority of races take place in Autocross-style events in parking lots. There were even some events at race tracks. The cars are all built by students from start to finish. I believe you don't have to be a mechanical engineering major to take part in something like this. Just build a car, test it out, and go race. Two of my Extra segments in my college football threads mentioned the websites of certain race teams. Here are my two extras which touched up on Formula SAE:
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2439110&postcount=1 (during Week 6)
Now if you're visiting this link and want to look up Illinois, here's an updated link courtesy of dougiemeats: http://www.mechse.uiuc.edu/clubs/sae/General/index.html
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=2447803&postcount=2 (during Week 7)
Many more teams are out there. I just can't name all of them for you in one post. What I may do is update my website with a link of a host of other FSAE teams. But even that list is a work-in-progress like my college football and basketball "registries." Constantly updating it when I learn of a new team I haven't included.
Here are the winners from recent events:
- 2005 FORMULA SAE -
FSAE Brazil: USP Sao Carlos
FASE Australasia: Western Australia
- 2006 FORMULA SAE -
FSAE: RMIT (Australia)
FSAE West: Texas A&M
Formula Student: Toronto
FSAE Germany: TU Graz (Germany)
FSAE Japan: Sophia University (Japan)
FSAE Italy: Joanneum Racing Graz (Germany)
FSAE Brazil 2006 is currently going on as we speak. This is the thread I'd like to use for FSAE competition. My other thread, "College Motorsports" { https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=72563 } was a general thread involving colleges in racing. Most future race car enginners did some college work. Cars are graded in a variety of different fields including cost, aerodynamics, fuel consumption, and whatever else there is. Machines are powered by motorcycle engines. For example, one of the race cars by Texas-Arlington ( http://maepro.uta.edu/fsae/ ) was powered by a Honda CBR600 motorcycle engine. People here in America probably know most of the universities which compete here in America. There is no actual RACING of these cars against each other, but it would certainly be fun to have competitive racing action with all these different cars being fielded and campaigned. Imagine if all the SEC or ACC teams competed on the track at once in racing competition. Perhaps imagine if Florida State's FSAE race car was taking on North Carolina State's FSAE car. Or imagine Kentucky's machine matching wits against Florida or Mississippi State. I still think it would be interesting to see if universities and colleges could actually come up with a plan to have competitive racing. Or perhaps imagine if Texas and Oklahoma took their rivalry to the race track. I even joked that every school should field Radical SR3's painted up in school colors. So you could see Michigan and Ohio State colors. There are also non Division 1 schools that compete and even non-football schools competing like Portland, Texas-Arlington, Marquette (under construction), California State-Northridge, Drexel, and Alabama-Huntsville.
If I get any results from FSAE Brazil, I'll share them with you all. But this is the thread to talk FSAE competition. Let's see if I can get an audience or have some success discussing FSAE results here.
