It still boggles my mind why slicks are used on dirt, especially with how dusty it was today. No other rallycross series runs slicks on dirt, that I know of anyways.

YES!! Best clip about sushi ever.

Patrick looks wayyyyyyy too excited, and Bucky looks wayyyyyyyyy too creeped out.

Most of the GRC tracks, while bringing the sport to the masses, seem to be completely boring parking lot tracks with the only dirt being a jump (both Austin and Dirtfish from last year being the exceptions). Would you like to see more permanent venues similar to those used by the World RallyCross Championship, where…

It still boggles my mind why Rallycross in America sees fit to use slicks on mostly dirt tracks. For the rounds where the track is basically a parking lot with the only dirt being the jump (New York, Washington D.C., Las Vegas, and Los Angeles from last year, for example) I can understand slicks, but when the surface…

Trucks?

Michigan as in MRacing?

My school is probably the exception with how it’s done, where the design work is done by people assigned to the car. Underclassmen are able to help build the car, however they are not able to do any design work, only the people assigned to the car are able to do that.

Not gonna lie, that’s awesome it made downforce sitting still.

Is that a bad thing? They have this car with battery technology, after all.

Actually, that’s how the senior design program is run, aside from the car teams. An outside company “sponsors” a project (aka gives the school money) and provides a point-of-contact with their company, so basically the company spends $10k to have four people work on a project for 8 months. Which isn’t bad, actually,…

My school runs the Senior Design program in such a way it’s a massive disadvantage for the Formula and Baja teams, as they basically have two different people to satisfy, the client (professor) and the competition. In addition to the people assigned to the teams don’t find out until classes start in the end of August,…

My old school doesn’t do Hybrid. In fact, they added Baja back into the senior design program after a 7-year absence. So now there’s four car teams (FSAE, Baja, Shell Eco Marathon, and an Ultra Lightweight Urban Vehicle project that’s pretty terrible), and all of them are pretty mediocre at best. Hooray professors who…

I’ve heard the same thing on resonators, wouldn’t surprise me if that’s why the idle test was added in.

You’re right, I wasn’t aware they were testing idle as well, rulebook says 100 dBC idle and 110 dBC at speed. Thanks for the correction.

Gotcha, yeah that’s my fault on the confusion, I saw last year’s car online and for some reason swore I saw it at Michigan 2013, I’m completely wrong on that one.

Racing karts? Rotax, Shifter, etc.?

Was your car the 2012 car, which IIRC is the last PITT car not to use wings?

That upper flap is HUUUUGE.

That’s what I was thinking, we’ll see next week how they work on track.