Formula SAE Australasia 2011 Competition: - Updates, Pictures, Stories, and More

[MalcolmG]

I thought I'd start a new thread for competition-specific stuff, since the FSAE-A 2011 thread dates back to May and isn't competition-specific.

It's tough not being there for the first time in 6 years, I'm eager to see everyone's cars and hear how they're all getting on.

Here's some facebook links with photos
Rex Chan's pics from Thursday
MUR's 2011 comp album

Monash have also posted a couple of pics on their wall
http://www.facebook.com/monashmotorsport

Apparently ADFA are through tech inspection but are the only ones so far.

Anyone going to be tweeting from comp? Kirby?

[MalcolmG]

More links with updates and photos

http://motorsport.mech.uwa.edu.../australia-2011.html

http://fsae.co.nz/index.php/ne...ainmenu-44/2011-news (come on guys, too much text, not enough pictures!)

https://scribe.twitter.com/#!/...ing/fsae-australasia

http://curtinmotorsportteam.blogspot.com (also needs pics)

[Boffin]

Malcom

That is correct. ADFA through tech.
Monash, Melbourne, ECU and two others failed on a few things.

Absent on thursday, atleast
WA
Swinburne
UTS
Curtin?

Wings:
Monash
ECU

And nearly all of the padock is wearing goodyears

[CandiceW]

Not much point bringing the car in on Thursday as all we had to do was register and attend team and driver briefing.

We are through tech inspection, and we did well in the static events so fingers crossed we will get some good points.

Overall very impressed with the field this year looks like it should be an awesome and very competitive comp.

[StevenWebb]

I'm waiting for the (monash) troops to arrive to sort out some issues with the car and get it rescruited tomorrow before we can pass brake/noise, not the best position for us to be in unfortunately so tomorrow will be big for us.

Originally posted by Boffin:
And nearly all of the padock is wearing goodyears

interesting goodyear related story which i discovered today...
we had an extra set of goodyears
Adelaide ordered a set of goodyears
Melbourne at the last minute bought a set of tires, which as it turns out was probably Adelaides set.
Melbourne wanted a set a bit earlier to test on so we lent them our spare set, which they replaced with the new set when they arrived a few days ago.
Adelaide were then calling everyone asking for some tires at comp, so we lent them our set, which we got from Melbourne, which was the set that Adelaide originally ordered for the competition!

[Rex Chan]

Goodyears and Ohlins and ADLs (Melbourne really would like a dash logger, so we're noticing all the cars with them). Very popular things to have on your car this weekend.

[Kirby]

finished doing tech inspection. ran to time and we had 15 cars though at the end of today. a few minor issues for the remaining teams, but should be through early tomorrow. I think there was a record clearance of all three tech events today and there were six!! cars lining up for practice track before the end of the day.

The pressure is of the volunteers because we had such a great response this year!!!

I'll be starting my twitter feed tomorrow, stay tuned for updates!

(p.s. shame on you malcolm for not rocking up)

[Rex Chan]

photos up on fb now. FSAE-A 2011: Friday (Scrut, Tilt, Noise) [December 16, 2011]

[Rex Chan]

2011 FSAE Comp - Thu

Photos from the 2012 Melbourne Uni team.

[Rex Chan]

And some from today (Friday):

2011 FSAE Comp - Fri