Wednesday, August 17, 2011

FSG 2011 - Official Photos

The official event photos can be found here:


There are thousands of ultra-hires photos!

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!