Formula SAE West 2009 Competition: - Updates, Pictures, Stories, and More

[Bandeira]

Hello Guys,

Do we have news from the Brazilian Teams? Cars #11 and #76?

Cheers!

[Wildcat_Alum]

Here are some Autocross pics.
I haven't sorted through them, and I'm not a great photographer, I caught the last half, and watched Rochester Institute of Technology pull a 62.xx, for time of the day.

http://jonschwab.smugmug.com/g...cd/1/568587098_UgCxt

*I'll try to go through and remove the blurry pictures, and the ones that seem to be missing cars.

[D Collins Jr]

Day 3 Update:

So, this is unofficial of course, and doesn't include the Auto-X scores, but here's the way things look from our score sheets:

Design Finals: Oregon State & Rochester

Cost won by RIT
Presentations won by SLO
Skidpad won by Missouri-Rolla
Acceleration won by RPI
Autocross won by RIT (unposted to date)

Top ten in points looks something like this:
RIT
Oregon State
Missouri S&T
RPI
Maryland
Washington
Oklahoma
Illinois
Auburn
Cal Poly Pomona

Lots of cars dead on the track today at Auto-X. Washington got a couple of wheels airborn, would be really excellent if someone could post pictures. Right now, it looks like it's RIT's event to lose. They've been top 3 in every event and hold a 40-50 point lead on the field. For comparative purposes, that's more than what separates positions 2-10. Everyone will know more of course when the Enduro run order gets posted.

Good luck to everyone tomorrow, and especially on their return trips home!

[Nice Vans]

By the way here is a sweet accel video of Kansas:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

[BeaverGuy]

For those of you that keep saying "Oregon" there is no Oregon car, only Oregon State. Oregon is the green and yellow school located further to the south and without an engineering program. We aren't all that fond of them and even less found of being referred to as them.

Go Beavs. Bring this home and make it a BSAE and FSAE double.

[rkellz007]

Josh,

Given the picture at the beginning of this page of posts I am not sure that the 'other' Oregon has an engineering program either ;-)

ryan

----ARRRGHHHHH, the rick roll..... I suppose that's what I get.

[Wildcat_Alum]

Washington on 3 wheels:
http://jonschwab.smugmug.com/p...68598581_eHFaR-M.jpg

[Crispy]

If you are interested in some more information about our suspension failure you should check out this video that describes a similar failure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0LPUI0lfVw

Go Beavs

[Jersey Tom]

Autocross results...?

#1 - Goodyear
#2 - Goodyear
#3 - Goodyear

I dig it. Can't wait to see how enduro shakes out.

[Kemper]

hey, does anybody have pics of the indian car? i forgot to take some, ill try to get it tomorrow.

anyway, today was "game over" for us. maybe because of excessive inclination of the engine, the rear cylinder of our SXV550 wasnt getting proper lubbing and blew right in the middle of noise test. at least we learned a lot to be used on our next car.

now, I was watching the last minutes of auto-x and a car which I dont remember where is it from got some engine problems. I guess they DNF'd right after Saskachewan car's DNF. It was a tiny car that was having serious acceleration issues, I think the color was either black or dark something. I would like to know what happened to them