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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Monday, August 8, 2011
FSG 2011 - Another Top Ten Finish for MRacing!
MRacing came in 8th place, our 6th consecutive top ten finish!
After a few disappointments early on, we managed a strong comeback with a 4th place endurance finish and 9th place in design, keeping us up in the top ten.
Results are available at:
(overall results, acceleration results, and endurance results not yet available at the time of this posting).
A big thanks to our sponsors for making all of this possible, and to UAS RheinMain, Opel, and the town of Russelheim, for graciously hosting us prior to competition! Thank you!
The team is about to depart for Frankfurt Intl airport for our flight home where we will resume design work on next season's car.
Sunday, August 7, 2011
FSG 2011 - Day 12 Update 1
Autocross scores are out. We finished 12th with 66.33 points out of the possible 100.
This means we are the 12th-to-last team to run in Endurance. The endurance event has already begun and will be running until late this afternoon. A live stream with commentary is available at
The complete endurance running order can be found here:
We are still waiting to hear the final scores for acceleration.
Saturday, August 6, 2011
FSG 2011 - Day 11 Update 2
Cost scores are up. We placed 36th receiving 67.05 points out of a possible 100.
Endurance tomorrow; we will likely go in the afternoon as we believe we are in the faster group (based on autocross times) and it's supposed to rain in the morning.
More updates tomorrow.
FSG 2011 - Day 11 Update 1
We've completed acceleration and are heading out to autocross. Our best acceleration time was a 4.02, and we know that at least 5 or 6 other teams have set faster times.
In other news, we made design finals!
Scores have been been posted for business as well as skidpad, you can find the results here:
In business we scored 53.52 out of a possible 75, finishing 32nd.
In skidpad we scored 40.64 out of a possible 75, finising 37th.
Friday, August 5, 2011
FSG 2011 - Day 10 Update 2
This morning we competed in skidpad and gave our business presentation. Skidpad did not go as well as we had hoped it would. We set a fast time of 6.31, while many other competitive teams were in the upper 5's. We will post the official results when they are posted tomorrow.
After skidpad we cleaned the car up for design which everyone felt went pretty well. The officials tried something new by pitting us against 9 judges instead of the usual 5 or 6. This worked very well for us as it gave us a much greater opportunity to demonstrate our knowledge and we hope to see this happen at FSAE Michigan as well.
Cost took place immediately following design, after which we took a team photo in the marquee and headed back to the pits. A full bolt check was performed along with a suspension setup in preparation for the weekend's events.
Tomorrow we will be competing in acceleration and autocross. Final scores and results will be posted as they are revealed.
FSG 2011 - Day 10 Update 1
Today we compete in all of the static events (Business Presentation, Cost Analysis, and Engineering Design) as well as our first dynamic event, skidpad. We will keep you posted on our progress.
Also, a big thanks to Mick Sachse for bringing us some of his "Brain Octane" home-made honey!
Thursday, August 4, 2011
FSG 2011 - Day 9 Update 2
Quick update: Heading out to scrub in tires. Afterwards a suspension setup and design preparation.
Also, the official event photos can be found here:
FSG 2011 - Day 9 Update 1
We've completed tilt, noise, and brake! The car is ready for dynamic competition. The rest of today will be spent preparing the team for design and the car for competition.
Locked up all four wheels on the first go
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
FSG 2011 - Day 8 Update 3
We passed Tech! They stayed open late to accommodate some of the teams in line, including us. That leaves us with noise, brake, and tilt to complete tomorrow before scrubbing in tires and performing setup.
Pic of the car being worked on after our first scrutineering/tech attempt:
FSG 2011 - Day 8 Update 2
We went through tech early on in the day, but didn't pass due to a few minor issues (fire extinguisher mount on the pushbar, brake light not big enough). These problems were quickly remedied, however due to the long line which has formed around tech, we will likely not be able to make it back through before they close down at 7pm. A few team members are out getting food for the team while the rest are going to put the car away once tech shuts down. There is a welcome ceremony at 8pm which we will try to attend.
Tomorrow we have to arrive early to get through tech as well as the brake, noise, and tilt tests. Afterwards we will likely do a suspension setup and prepare ourselves for the design event on Friday.
FSG 2011 - Photos! Days 2-7
Here's a selection of photos from the past few days of our trip.
Day 2
Loading the car into the trailer for testing at Opel
Have to make sure the oil pan doesn't scrape on the ramp.
Day 3
Day 4
Day 6
UAS/HS RheinMain and MRacing with the Russelheim Mayor
Day 7
The car in the pits, ready for tech
FSG 2011 - Day 8 Update 1
This morning the team performed some final preparation for scrutineering/tech inspection before heading over to the scrutineering site. Unfortunately as they were preparing to inspect our car, we were sent off to the panoramic photo (a panoramic photo taken of every team and car). We'll be going back over to scrutineering immediately after the photo is taken.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
FSG 2011 - Days 6 & 7
On Monday the team started off by packing up our equipment for transport to Hockenheim. At noon we transported our car, along with HS RheinMain's, to the city center, where we met with the Mayor of Russelheim for a photo shoot with our teams.
We then spent most of the afternoon with Opel, who took us on a tour of their museum and gave us a presentation on their vehicle dynamics simulation work.
We'd like to give a huge thanks to the city of Russelheim, the HS/UAS RheinMain team, and Opel, for being such generous hosts and providing invaluable testing time. Thank you!
Today, Tuesday, we spent a majority of the day at the track registering and unpacking the car/setting up our pit. Some of the team went for lunch in Heidelberg whilst others stayed at the track to watch motorcycles lap the 'ring on an open track day.
From this point on the frequency of blog posts will be increasing as we keep you up to date with the progress of the team throughout competition. Assuming we have adequate internet access at the track, we hope to update at least 3 or 4 times a day. We will also start uploading photos to Picasa and post the link when they are available.
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