BANDIT Thanksgiving UPDATE

 

img1411359318What is the team BANDIT thankful for this week you ask?

Chassis is fully assembled.

Front Suspension components including the upper and lower a-arms are tacked up and ready to be mounted to the car.

Rear Suspension team’s trailing arms are currently being cut out by Aqua Tech Waterjet, and we hope to have them jigged up by the end of the week.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Raider Placed 24th Overall!

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The results are in and our Raider team placed 24th in the 2016 Baja SAE Competition! This is an amazing outcome and the entire UCI Racecar Design Program is proud of our team’s performance. It is great to see all the hard work that our team has put in over last last school year pay off in the end. It won’t be long before they need to get back to the drawing board to a design a new car for the 2017 Baja SAE Competition but for now it’s time for our team to sit back and enjoy their success.

Baja SAE Results

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This past weekend, team Raider headed out to compete in the 2016 Baja SAE Competition in Gorman, CA. The events started off on Friday with tech inspection which Raider successfully passed. Next was the Static events where our Baja team showed significant improvement from last year. The real fun started with the Dynamic events where the team was able to push Raider to its limits and see how it stacked up in a field of 100 Baja vehicles. After the results came in, Raider impressively placed 12th in maneuverability and 14th in suspension and traction. The best event was saved for last with the endurance race. Our team started off strong but after some hard driving, a few suspension components called it quits which brought Raider back to the pits. Fortunately the support team was well prepared and performed some quick repairs in order to get Raider back in the race. The car was able to finish the race with no other issue and placed 31st. We are still waiting for the overall results and will post them as soon as they are available. Whatever the final results say, we are proud of our Baja team’s performance in the 2016 Baja SAE competition. More importantly however, we are proud of the hard work they have put in over the last several months to get to where they are now and the significant improvement they have shown since last year. Be sure to check back here and follow us on Facebook and Instagram to get competition updates and see how our Formula SAE cars are coming along.

Raider Gets Some Trail Time

With Raider’s competition in Gorman, CA less than a week away, here is another testing video for us to get hyped for the big weekend. The team has been packing up and preparing for any surprises that may come up at the competition. That means loading up on tools, spare parts, and most importantly, team members who know the car inside and out. Wish them luck as they convoy over to Gorman to make their hard work pay off.

Raider Off-Road Testing

There’s nothing like spending a sunny Saturday playing outside in the dirt. Yesterday, our Raider team got to work on prepping a local hiking trail for their car to tear up. They set up several features along the trail including ditches, breaking bumps, rock crawls, and a dirt jump. While part of the team worked on the trail, other members worked on testing the car to get the CVT dialed. Today the team plans to head back out to the trail to test out Raider’s suspension on the features they built. Check back here later and follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see how the day went!