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mtg
05-26-2003, 11:15 AM
This summer, the UMR team is going be autocrossing the St. Louis and Kansas City autocrosses. We sent some emails to UMC and KU about summer driving- hopefully we'll see them at some autocrosses.
Anyone else that wants to autocross against UMR and other schools in the area, I encourage you to come out. SIU-Carbondale and UIUC have made it out to St. Louis within the last year.

The St. Louis region SCCA offers a discount for FSAE teams- we pay member fees ($20).

Matt
UMR FSAE
mtg7aa@umr.edu

mtg
05-26-2003, 11:15 AM
This summer, the UMR team is going be autocrossing the St. Louis and Kansas City autocrosses. We sent some emails to UMC and KU about summer driving- hopefully we'll see them at some autocrosses.
Anyone else that wants to autocross against UMR and other schools in the area, I encourage you to come out. SIU-Carbondale and UIUC have made it out to St. Louis within the last year.

The St. Louis region SCCA offers a discount for FSAE teams- we pay member fees ($20).

Matt
UMR FSAE
mtg7aa@umr.edu

Eric Wort
05-28-2003, 06:10 PM
So far UIUC is planning on running this weekend(June 1st) in St. Louis. Anybody else planning on going?

Eric Wort
UIUC Formula SAE (http://dilbert.cen.uiuc.edu/soc/sae/formula/)

mtg
05-28-2003, 07:23 PM
UMR will be there with our 2002 #24 car and our 2003 #26 car.

I hope the weather is going to be nice.

See you there.

Eric Wort
05-29-2003, 06:50 PM
Unfortunately, I forgot that we loaned our trailer to the 1/4 scale tractor pull guys for the weekend. So we won't be there Sunday.

We'll probably try to make a couple of other autocrosses this summer though.

EDIT: I've just been notified that we may have another trailer to take the car with, so we may be there after all.

Eric Wort
UIUC Formula SAE (http://dilbert.cen.uiuc.edu/soc/sae/formula/)

[This message was edited by Eric Wort on May 29, 2003 at 10:17 PM.]

mtg
06-04-2003, 09:21 PM
Eric, I guess you guys weren't able to get a trailer to make it down to St. Louis http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif

The next St. Louis SCCA autocross is June 29th. We'll be there with 2 or 3 cars. Hopefully UMC will be there too.

Can you guys make it down June 29th?

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Eric Wort
06-05-2003, 11:34 AM
We're currently planning on being there. How'd your car run?

Eric Wort
UIUC Formula SAE (http://dilbert.cen.uiuc.edu/soc/sae/formula/)

mtg
06-05-2003, 01:33 PM
We took off all the supertrapp plates on our mufflers for fun http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif It was probably running at about 130 - 140 dB. We had some flames shooting out both pipes.

It ran good until we ran out of E-85. It didn't run so good after that. That's the annoying part of running corn gas in your car- you can't go to the corner gas station and pick up a few gallons.

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Eric Wort
06-07-2003, 09:17 PM
Yeah, its handy to roll the car out of the trailer and drive it up to the pump. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Eric Wort
UIUC Formula SAE (http://dilbert.cen.uiuc.edu/soc/sae/formula/)

mtg
06-11-2003, 11:13 AM
We are going to the Solotime event #3 in Kansas City June 21-22. Anybody else gonna be there?

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Moeye
06-18-2003, 12:18 PM
A couple of guys will be taking the 03 car to Rantoul, IL this weekend. We took the car to Rantoul last week, it was a lot of fun. The course was designed by a B-Mod driver, so it was a very fast course with wide sweepers and fast chicanes and kinks. I would say wings would have been beneficial. The concrete track surface was about 107 F last weekend, so the tires stuck to the ground real nice.

One warning: The surface is very bumpy, our setup is not very stiff, but we were catching air.

mtg
06-18-2003, 01:58 PM
Where is Rantoul, IL? That sounds like a course of aero domination.
So far, we are the only FSAE team entered in the KC Solotime event this weekend.
How about some other FSAE teams come out to the June 29th St. Louis autocross?

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Eric Wort
06-26-2003, 04:01 AM
Rantoul is a small town about 20 minutes north of Champaign-Urbana. The course is a parking lot of an old WW II military airbase.

It is about 3.5 hours away from St. Louis, maybe a little less.

We calculated the average speed to be around 60mph http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_eek.gif two weekends ago.

I think we're planning on being in St. Louis the 29th.

Eric Wort
UIUC Formula SAE (http://dilbert.cen.uiuc.edu/soc/sae/formula/)

mtg
06-27-2003, 08:43 PM
UMR will be at the St. Louis autocross on Sunday.

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mtg
07-08-2003, 07:30 AM
UMR will be at the July 13th autocross in St. Louis.
UIUC made it out to the last one, and made for some good competition.
Anyone else going this weekend?

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Moeye
07-08-2003, 11:24 AM
UIUC will be attending the 12th and 13th of July autocross in Rantoul.