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Some more pictures, via Monash's FB.
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Ambrose,

Yes, indeed, my fake news correction above may be even faker.

To repeat my excuse, given the lack of any "program" listing the basic cars specs, I didn't bother taking any notes, so...

Further to the "fake news" edit in above post, it is worth considering why ECU used rockers to drive their hydraulically-interconneted-roll-springs, which, incidentally, act as "longitudinal-Z-bars"....

Here is a link to some photos I found on UNSW's FB page.
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(^ My emphasis.)

Noah,

A "mission statement", or "team motto", that I suggest would benefit all teams is,

"Do LESS, but do it BETTER, and do it SOONER!"

Rule 1.1 challenges the teams to...

BTW (3) - Had a closer look at TU's aero on Monday, with the car up on stands so I could see underneath. They have world-leading aero-downforce (of CzA = ~6.7 m^2), but...
... MUCH MORE IS POSSIBLE...

FAKE NEWS - From various sources it seems that a certain Herr Hellmuth (two ells, not one) Hirth was active in German engineering around the early 1900s, built aircraft engines, and founded Mahle....

Noah,

I would have liked to do a much better coverage of all the teams and cars, similar to the "Planet-Z" reporting I did back in 2013/14/15. Sorry, but SAE-A made that all but impossible this...

CORRECTION - The Munchen Skid-Pad time I gave in earlier post was only for one of their laps. I guess their other lap was the ~4.90 s, thus giving them an official averaged time of 4.758 seconds....

Sunday morning - some light rain overnight.

Z

Doug,

Hey, I was serious!

In fact, I am so liberal I would love listening to some Country, some Western, AND The Blues Brothers, live. Especially the Rawhide theme song, complete with flying...

FSAE-Oz-2018 - Teams and Cars
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Sorry, not enough time to do a full report, so just some highlights.

(And did I mention that NO PROGRAM has been printed?!!! That is, no...

Harry,

Ok, one more time, just for you.
~~~o0o~~~

New Venue.
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Winton Racetrack, which is near the Victorian country town of Benalla (about 200 km NE of Melbourne).

Most teams are...