Formula Car Team

COMPETITIONS

Michigan Tech Racing has a great history of solid performance at FSAE competition.

Our team has placed as high as 8th, and recently has performed in the top half of a highly competitive field of approximately 120 teams.

Extensive use of modeling / simulation, advanced controls, and high performance materials

Blistering vehicle performance:  0-60 mph in 3.5 sec and 1g+ skid pad performance

By adopting a two-year design cycle in Fall 2008, Michigan Tech Racing will enter the 2010 competition with all the components for success:  an innovative design, attention to detail and craftsmanship, and the necessary testing and validation

2008
42nd Overall (out of 136), 34th in Endurance-Economy

2006
89th Place Overall (out of over 150)

2004
62nd out of 134

2001
Twentieth place out of 123 schools

Runner-up in the Mechanical Dynamics Functional Digital Car Award

Third place in TRC Safety and Crashworthiness Award

2000
Twenty-first place overall

1999
Eighth place out of 100 schools

Second place Lear Best Interior Award

First place Recyclability Award

Second place TRC Safety and Crashworthiness

Visteon Static Performance Award

1998
Tenth place out of ninety-eight schools

First place Lear Best Interior Award

Michigan Tech Formula SAE The goal of the Formula Car competition is to design an open wheel formula style racecar for the weekend autocrosser.

The car needs to be able to accelerate quickly and handle well for the novice and experienced drivers, while still being inexpensive.

Formula SAE is judged by industry engineers on both dynamic and static events.

Static events include design of the vehicle, cost, and a presentation to a potential investor that would mass-produce the vehicles.

Dynamic events include an acceleration run of 75 meters, a skidpad event, an autocross event, and a twenty-four lap, two-driver endurance/fuel economy event.

The team finished 48th out of 106 at the international Formula SAE competition held in Romeo, Mich. in May 2007