UTA FSAE wins SCCA nationals

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http://www.scca.com/popup/raceresult.aspx?event=12143&file=382

http://www.scca.com/eventresults.aspx?event=12143&hub=3 West Friday

http://www.scca.com/newsarticle.aspx?hub=3&news=3448

http://www.scca.com/newsarticle.aspx?hub=3&news=3451 Very last line of page

FSAE is considered a subclass of A class modified.

Erik is a current student, Kenny is from a few years back (our suspension and motor guru), Dr. Woods is a senior level professor and team director, Alejandro is a current student.

F'08 had a fuel injector mount break off, covering everything near it in fuel before Ale could shut everything else and get out. They say he made it out in approx 4.7 seconds, where rules requirement is a 5 second egress or shorter.

This was the at-track report, before all points and times were tallied.

This weekend it's off to Texas Motor Speedway with F'07 and F'08 for some autocrossing.

This week has been madness.

Yesterday started off normal enough. We worked the first heat, and I was dumb and picked the corner where everbody and their mother pegged this one cone... so I did alot of running. After that, F08 wouldn't start. Alejandro and I bummed a new starter off of KU, swapped it out... and STILL had starting issues! We did alot of push starting... Then the real fun started. On Alejandro's second run one of the fuel injector mounts broke off, and fuel started spraying all over the place. Alejandro did his best 5 second egress (without breaking the shifter) and had to get towed back to the grid. We were pretty bummed, but the SCCA, Dr. Bob, and Kenny were nice enough to let us finish all of our runs in F07. The driving ended with me in first, Kenny a very close second, Nick from KU in 3rd, Woods 4th, and Alejandro 5th. Alejandro DNF'd his first run, the car broke on his second, so he only had one run that counted. The attrition rate was high. The university formerly known as UMR broke an upright, one of KU's winged cars got the front wing ripped off on a cone (very first run) and their other winged car broke the steering column. So we all went over to KU to fix our cars. After welding our intake up, I also had to weld UMR's upright and KU's steering column. I didn't even sabotage anything!!

Today was less stressful. We put the car back togethor, and after that it was pretty flawless... but we still had starting issues. We let F08 idle pretty much the entire day, and it never overheated, and although we put gas in it, I don't think we needed too. The day ended with me in 1st overall, Kenny 2nd, Nick from KU in 3rd, Woods 4th, and Alejandro 5th. Nick was not very far off of Kenny and I although he only got 1 run each day due to car issues, he is fast!!

We're about to go to the banquet and get our awards!

Thanks to everyone on the team who helped build, and helped get the car ready for nationals. We're still the fastest!!!
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Formula SAE   Drivers: 19       Trophies: 6
T 1  108 Eric  Leichtle       2007 UTA FSAE Blu        Hoosier    36.109    35.136    34.780      72.821
     [8] Coppell, TX          UTA                      Texas Regi 38.974    38.125    38.041    
T 2  107 Kenneth Hassler      2007 2007 UTA Formula S  Hoosier    36.869    36.745    34.871      73.056
     [7] Benbrook, TX         University of Texas at A Texas Regi 39.510    38.826    38.185     (0.235)
T 3    7 Bob Woods            2007 UTA FSAE 07 F07 Bl  Hoosier    41.254    36.432    35.643      73.919
   [107] Arlington, TX        UTA FSAE                 Texas Regi 38.922    38.344    38.276     (0.863)
T 4  134 Nick Roberts         2006 University of Kans  Goodyear   35.466     DNF       DNS        74.204
    [34] Olathe, KS           Jayhawk Motorsports      Kansas Cit 38.738     DNS      47.243(3)  (0.285)
T 5    8 Alejandro Moreno     2008 UTA F08 Blu         Hoosier     DNF       DNF      35.836      74.583
   [108] Arlington, TX        UTA Racing               Texas Regi 39.380    38.747     DNF       (0.379)
T 6   34 Jared Anderson       2006 University of Kans  Falken     36.830    36.883     DNS        75.077
   [134] Derby, KS            Jayhawk Motorsports      Wichita Re 39.213     DNS      38.247     (0.494)
  7   82 Adam  Hardin         2008 Missouri S&T FSAE   Falken     39.096    36.149     DNS        75.646
   [182] Rolla, MO            Goodyear/AMAE/Ford       St Louis R 40.223    39.497     DNF       (0.569)
  8   70 Nicholas Deneault    2008 WSU FSAE SR2008 Bl  Falken     39.281    39.091    37.405      77.811
         Wichita, KS          Wichita State University Wichita Re 42.197    41.699    40.406     (2.165)
  9   10 Erich Ohlde          2008 University of Kans  Goodyear   39.077    39.053    38.499      77.815
   [110] Lawrence, KS         KU School of Engineering Kansas Reg 39.869    39.454    39.316     (0.004)
 10  182 Neil Schreiber       2008 Missouri Universit  Goodyear   38.304     DNF       DNS        78.013
    [82] Rolla, MO            Goodyear/AMAE/Ford       St Louis R 42.395    39.997    39.709     (0.198)
 11  119 Michael Stanley      2008 University of Mary  Hoosier    38.023    38.199    38.086      79.569
    [19] Ijamsville, MD       UMD FSAE TR              Washington 41.546     DNS       DNF       (1.556)
 12   26 Nolan  Pray          2006 Formula Hardrocker  Hoosier    39.945    40.089    38.573      79.831
   [126] Rapid City, SD                                Land O Lak 42.798    42.917    41.258     (0.262)
 13   19 Michael  Cook        2008 University of Mary  Hoosier    39.548    37.996     DNF        79.982
   [119] Tracys Landing, MD                            Washington 41.986    50.176     DNS       (0.151)
 14  110 Colin  Snyder        2008 Univsersity of Kan  Goodyear    DNF      39.864    40.797      80.734
    [10] Wichita, KS          University of Kansas     Wichita Re 43.823    42.382    40.870     (0.752)
 15   39 Chad Kirby           2005 SDSMT FSAE Blu,Slv  Hoosier    42.981    41.404    40.558      85.279
   [139] Haysville, KS                                 Wichita Re 46.551    44.721    45.497     (4.545)
 16  126 Eric   Lee           2007 Formula Hardrocker  Hoosier    50.476    41.400    45.044(2)   85.492
    [26] Rapid City, SD                                Land O Lak  DNF      44.092     DNF       (0.213)
 17  139 Samuel Voegeli       2005 FSAE FSAE           Hoosier    51.091    45.848    43.858      89.694
    [39] Rapid City, SD       Formula Hardrocker Racin Land O Lak 49.805    48.029    45.836     (4.202)
 18   88 Andrew  Pautsch                                          48.635    45.752    44.303      90.977
         Rapid City, SD       Formula Hardrocker Racin Land O Lak 50.137(1) 46.674    47.135     (1.283)
 19    4 Len Necefer          2007 Jayhawk Motorsport  Falken      DNF       DNF      45.814(1)   99.016
         Lawrence, KS                                  Kansas Reg  DNF      53.202     DNF       (8.039)
 
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