Please Support Anteater Racing!

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With the end of winter break and the start of winter quarter, Anteater Racing has begun manufacturing this year’s race cars. We plan on building three competitive cars this year and we need your help! Every year, Anteater Racing requires thousands of dollars worth of materials, tools, and processing to build. We are only able to afford this because of donations from sponsors and supporters of Anteater Racing.

Additionally, we have been challenged to raise $150,000 to receive an additional $110,000 to renovate our workshop. This will update our workshop with better tools and more storage, allowing Anteater Racing to work more efficiently and develop better cars.

Please donate to our Zotfunder. Anteater Racing needs support and any donation is appreciated.

Wraith, Lithium and Renegade at UCI’s Fall Quarter Design Review

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2019 Anteater Race Team
UCI 2018 Fall Design Review
UCI 2018 Fall Design Review

Each of the three Anteater Racing Teams, Wraith the Internal Combustion car, Lithium the Electric car, and Renegade the off-road car presented their projects last Friday at the UCI’ Senior Project Fall Design Review located in Engineering Plaza. Each team and its members were there ready to talk about their car and the goals that they have set for the rest of the year.

Below are the fall design posters for the 3 teams:

Internal Combustion 

Baja

Electric

Each team has been working very hard to achieve the goals they have listed on their posters. If you wish to see the progress made by each team come out to our weekend track days in the UCI parking lots (check the calendar on our website for dates and times). Lastly, if you are a UCI student and want to help us make our teams’ goals a reality follow this link (Anteater Racing Campaign) and it will direct you to a support page. Thank you!!

Vehicle Testing at Lot 70 on Bison

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UCI Vehicle Testing
UCI Vehicle Testing

Come out to our test days! Find some time to see what our engineers are working on and come out to the UCI campus lots on the weekends. Please check our website calendar on a weekly basis to view the test scheduling for each car; the time and location of testing is subject to change each week, so be sure to stay updated and continue to follow Anteater Racing. 

https://youtu.be/WC2tHT7HnPk

Phantom acceleration testing at Lot 70

Finals are just wrapping up this week, and our teams are eager to make progress over the holiday season.

Come see the week by week process and meet some of the crew members!

Please follow our calendar for updated schedules; notifications for news updates will be offered soon.

SoCal Shootout at Adams Motorsports Park, Oct 20, 2018

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UCI Racing at Adams Motorsports Park

(a pic of Phantom (Left) and Marauder (Right))

UC Irvine Racecar is off to a fantastic start for the 2018-2019 school year!

On October 20, 2018, our team of engineers were able to compete in the first ever Socal Shootout. Universities that gathered at Adams Motorsport Park in Riverside, CA  included: UC Irvine, UC Riverside, CSU Sacramento, California Baptist University, Cal Poly Pomona and CSU Fullerton.

This is the first friendly exhibition for universities of Southern California to collaborate with one another, yet also compete for respect and reputation; the team with the best times around the track would also take home a prize of $1,000.

Socal Shootout was a time-trial event. The representing vehicles from each school would compete to record the most laps in the least amount of time. Our driver for internal combustion, Matt McMurry, pushed Phantom to the limit averaging a lap time of 47.325 seconds in the main heat; Matt’s fastest lap, and the fastest lap around the track, on the day was 46.48 seconds. The average lap time for the main heat of all other teams that competed was 59.98 seconds. Adams Motorsport Park is a unique course with many straight aways; which is unusual to the courses we normally race; Phantom was able to reach speeds of 86+ mph.

https://youtu.be/UPPIh-JgKUU

With some of the fastest times around the track, UCI internal combustion placed first with Cal Baptist and CSU Fullerton placing second and third. 

By the end of the day, our off-road baja vehicle, Marauder, was able to exhibit a show taking times around the motorcycle track that is also at Adams Motorsport Park. No other baja team showed up from the opposing universities and it was a good opportunity to exercise Marauder’s capabilities.

All in all, Socal Shootout has set an amazing precedent for this years UCI race team!

UCI Anteater Racing is Back!!! Getting Ready for 2019

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FSAE Wraith

FSAE Internal Combustion 2017-2018
Phantom

FSAE Electric 2017-2018
Joule 

FSAE Baja 2017-2018
Marauder

UCI Anteater Racing is back again for the 2018-19 school year. All three teams have their goals set high shooting for a top 5 placement at each of their respective end of the year competitions. We will be keeping you updated on each of the 3 teams throughout the year here on the website and if you have any questions or interests you can get in touch with us through our contact page. Go Eaters!