<![CDATA[Jalopnik: Formula Sae]]> http://cache.jalopnik.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jalopnik.com.png <![CDATA[Jalopnik: Formula Sae]]> http://jalopnik.com/tag/formula sae http://jalopnik.com/tag/formula sae <![CDATA[Here's the trailer for the Formula SAE documentary "RELENTLESS"]]> Oregon State University is producing a documentary about the collegiate racing/engineering series Formula SAE and, if the trailer is any indication, RELENTLESS looks like it wants to be to collegiate Formula SAE racing what SENNA was to Formula One. Awesome. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5862185&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Watch a race car flip while standing still]]> Student racing teams of the Formula SAE know the tilt table as a mildly tedious element of pre-contest scrutineering — not a health risk. Luckily no one was injured when this tilt table decided 67 degrees just wasn't tilty enough. (Thanks to Ruben for the tip!) More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5816165&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Oregon-German team wins Formula SAE for second year in a row]]> The Global Formula Racing team, a combination of engineering students from Oregon State University and Duale Hochschule Baden Württemberg Ravensburg in Germany, won the Formula SAE Michigan challenge this weekend, the Super Bowl of college-built race cars. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5802095&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How a university punished a female engineering student for this bikini photo]]> A Canadian university suspended its student racecar-building team after one of the engineers in training had the audacity to pose with it while wearing a bikini. It's an independent study course in sexism, administrative idiocy and misplaced priorities. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5792168&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Time-Lapse Video Makes Formula SAE Chassis Fabrication Interesting]]> The annual Formula SAE competition challenges college students to build an open-wheel racer from scratch, as seen here in this amazing time-lapse video of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign team fabricating a chassis. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5142827&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Holy Small-Displacement V-8! WWU's Viking XXX Formula SAE Car]]> Reader Alex tipped us off to this fully awesome carbon-fiber monocoque Formula SAE car that a friend of his worked on while at Western Washington University. While the chassis is impressive, the best part of it to us is the engine: .554L, Kawasaki 250 heads, custom machined-from-billet block and crank, and oh, eight freaking cylinders. We can't wait to see what they'll come up with for an encore. a quad-turbo W-16 125, maybe? More »
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