Iowa State’s Baja SAE Team has already won a long race and earned a top-10 overall finish. The team’s racing season still has stops in California and New York. To get ready, the student-engineers have been collecting data and fine-tuning their off-road racer.
It was a Friday afternoon and there was Zach Verbeck in the back of the Cyclone Racing garage, working away on a homemade brake dyno, looking for data that could improve the performance of Iowa State’s mini off-road racer. The senior from Cedar Falls who’s studying mechanical engineering was taking torque readings in foot-pounds. He …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Baja racing team slowed in first race, ready to regain off-road speed”
Somehow, the off-road racer built by Iowa State student-engineers held together through the end of the four-hour endurance race, earning the Baja Team its second checkered flag of the season and its best-ever overall finish. Sometime in the last quarter of the race, the rough, muddy racing sheared tubes used to repair damage from the …Continue reading “Update: Iowa State Baja Team expects more success”
Iowa State’s off-road racers already have a big win to their credit. Last month, competing over a dusty course at the University of Texas at El Paso, the Baja team bounced to a frame-bending-but-not-breaking win in the four-hour endurance race. That helped the team move up to seventh overall (among 96 registered teams from as …Continue reading “As rocky racing turns to mud runs, Iowa State Baja Team expects more success”
The Baja team of Cyclone Racing is working to take it competitiveness to a new level this year. With its 10 horse-powered Baja car, the team took second place at the Backwoods Baja Competition at the University of Wisconsin-Stout, which ran from Oct. 26 to Nov. 2. Happy with its results but eager for a …Continue reading “Cyclone Racing Baja team takes 2nd; members take higher goals”
The ISU Lunabotics Mining Team just finished first place at the 2013 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida from May 20-24. Below are videos from the team. “Harlem Shake” video Video of HERMES competition run NASA EDGE videos of the entire competition Visit the team on Facebook for more. The …Continue reading “Watch the latest fun videos from student clubs!”
Update: 6-14-13 The Baja Team placed 10th at the SAE International Baja Rochester Collegiate Design Series, making its best finish in the last 20 years. The team raced against 87 universities from all over the world in the endurance portion of the competition after passing the safety inspection and all dynamic evens on the first …Continue reading “Iowa State Baja SAE Team lends help to competition, still finds success”
Students swarmed the Baja SAE garage last week, assembling their mini off-road racer and manufacturing spare parts for their two summer races. “The big thing we tried to address this year was reliability,” said Scott Brehm, a graduating senior from Rickardsville who’s a mechanical engineering major and the technical director of Iowa State’s Baja SAE team. The team …Continue reading “It’s all about reliability for this year’s Iowa State Baja racing team”
They’ve already survived a race through the Oregon mud. And so the members of Iowa State University’s Baja SAE Team think they have an off-road racer that can compete when the series moves to Wisconsin. This year’s student-designed and student-built racer, in fact, made it to the finish of the competition’s big event, a four-hour …Continue reading “Iowa State Baja SAE Team carries results, confidence into Wisconsin race”
Chase Schuette prepared a gear shaft for another dose of heat treatment. Justin Upah attached plastic body panels to the metal chassis tubes. And Eric Schluttner huddled over a 10-horsepower, Briggs & Stratton engine, preparing to finish and attach a safety cover for the belt that connects the engine to the transmission. It was another …Continue reading “Iowa State’s Baja SAE Team optimistic about off-road racer”
Iowa State’s Mini Baja Team was ninth heading into the last – and biggest – event of the SAE Baja 2010 competition in Bellingham, Wash., sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers. And the off-road racer the students had designed and built was running like they thought it would. But there were some problems during …Continue reading “Iowa State Mini Baja Team hopes for better luck, better performance this year (updated 5/24)”
