I am with the University @ Buffalo. This year was the first year we took a car to competition in 3 years. Most of the people that did work on the car we took did NOT go to competition. Hence we got screwed on design. Not only that but misjudgments in the car noise made us have to seriously restrict our exhaust making the car run completly like crap. This also caused us to have unbeleivably crappy skid pad and acceleration runs. It ran better in AutoX but then in Endurance just died out.
Now heres the problem. Its just one thing after another with our team. If its not conflict within our own team its conflicts with money or time or resources. AND NOW, our own SAE members are trying to rub us out. They are bitching at us for our 101st place finish, and are trying to just eradicate the whole formula team.
Now I know we are each seperate teams but we are all on the SAME club for the SAME school. We should be in eachothers corners, helping!! .... But instead we get nasty emails, and derogatory comments from the other teams, calling us stupid, and lazy, and putting their noises up like they are better then us. Quite frankly Im sick of all this animosity. It's so hard to build a racecar when not only do you have your own excpectation to live up to but you also have a bunch of guys trying to make sure you fail breathing down your neck also.
UUUGH.... I just feel like Im fighting a losing battle. I just needed to vent. I just feel like all the top teams never have to deal with this stuff. I mean I don't see what goes on behind the scenes, no one does. I just want other people that are strugglin to know, you arent the only ones. I feel like our biggest problems aren't building the racecar, it's overcomming all the crap and all the crappy people trying to bring you down....
Seriously, I felt more like a team with everyone at competition then I do with my own fellow SAE members at Buffalo... :-/ ... I wish there was more love for the University @ Buffalo formula team... Just want to let you all know, if you don't see us next year, chances are it was because the people on our baja team voted us off SAE and took our money. >: O ....
Good luck to you all, and hopefully I can compete with you all again WITH a CAR next year at Detroit.
Sincerly,
Matthew Brehm