Terps Racing ~ Formula SAE Division

 

Holly Morris and the Fox 5 news team was on the scene with live broadcast on the Robotronics team's win in San Diego along with their upcoming competition this Saturday. On the team was Terps Racing driver Mike Stanley leading the team into competition. Not to be outshined Terps Racing was there along with their supporters.  Thank you to all who were there supporting the team!  To see the video follow the link below and look under the video section under the category labeled "Sidebar".

Link: Terps Racing Plug

 

University of Maryland's FSAE team will be attending the SCCA Nationals competiton in Topeka, Kansas in mid july. Drivers Mike Cook and Mike Stanley will be driving the Championship 2008 car. A big thanks goes out to Gurit and Middle River Aircraft for sponsoring us and helping us design an aero package to be used at the upcoming event!

We have a new compilation video of FSAE West:

 

Terps Racing FSAE West 2008 HQ (Clean) from Terps Racing on Vimeo.

Maryland wins First place at FSAE West 2008 at California Speedway!

Results:

1st Overall
1st Acceleration
3rd Skidpad
4th AutoX
4th Endurance/Fuel Economy
6th Cost
9th Presentation
T-10th Design

Photos will be up fairly soon, so keep an eye on this page!

Saturday morning the guys packed up to head out to California.  Our race is at California Speedway, in Fontana, from the 25th to the 28th.  Be sure to look for the results at www.sae.org. 

 

 

Just got back from the Formula SAE East Competition. A quick run down of how we finished:

 

Acceleration: 1st

Skid Pad: 2nd

Sales Presentation: 2nd

Endurance: 4th

Design: 5th

Cost: 10th

AutoX: DNF

 

Overall: 6th!!!!

 

The car was incredibly fast and I think our dynamic scores show this. We had a problem with our steering rack in the first lap of autocross which made us miss the event entirely. Besides losing all points for that event, we also had to run the endurance race with the back of the field. Since the course was very long and there were few passing zones, we got stuck behind slower vehicles most of the time. While we either ran the fastest (or second fastest-we aren't quite sure) lap of the endurance race, our overall results were definitely hindered by the slower vehicles on track.

In the static events we improved significantly over last years results. We achieved second place in the sales event this year which was a huge improvement. I'd like to personally acknowledge Jeff Gamerman for his work on this. Our design event went very well too. We were told by certain judges that our presentation was the best they had ever seen. Unfortunately our vehicle was slightly over 500lbs, and there is an unwritten law that no vehicles over 500lbs can make it to the design finals. Nevertheless, it was still a very good effort.

 

Overall, the event was a great success. We know exactly what we need to improve to be successful in FSAE West in June. Hopefully with a lot of hard work we can win that event.

First, I would like to thank everyone for coming out to the 2008 FSAE roll out. I hope everyone had a good time. It really helped the team prepare for their presentation events. Now, I'd like to remind everyone that the Formula SAE East event held at Virginia International Raceway is rapidly approaching. For those that do not know, this is the first time a SAE event has been held in Virginia. Were excited to finally have an event close to our home town. The event takes place April 23-26. At the same time, the Rolex Grand Am series will be running at VIR too. Tickets can be bought for the Grand Am race which will also allow for FSAE viewing here: http://www.virclub.com/ We encourage everybody to come down to watch the formula cars run; it is certainly an exciting event. Our endurance race takes place at 9:30am Saturday the 26th. With such a small field of cars this year, I doubt it will take much longer than about 1.5-2 hours. In other news, we have updated the media section. Check out the new pictures of the car.

The Formula SAE and Baja students invite you to attend the rollout of their 2008 vehicles on Wednesday, April 9th.
Come check out these amazing cars and take in their design, manufacturing, and sales presentations as a dry-run for the competition, with a Q&A session to follow.

The format of the evening will be to assemble at 6:30 pm in the SAE Shop room 1229 in the J.M. Patterson building (building number 083- College Park campus, MD)1 and enjoy pizza and soft drinks while checking out this year’s Formula and Baja vehicles. Around 7:15 pm the teams will deliver their design presentation followed by questions from the judges (You!!).

Our first newsletter has been posted. Check it out in the Newsletters section.

Terps Racing has a new look on the web!

The website is under heavy construction. Please keep an eye out for more updates.