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Posted by Patrick Dingle at 05/08/2001 5:18 PM EST


College Student on team #639, Red B^2, from Ithaca High School and Cornell University.


In Reply to: Cornell FSAE
Posted by Ryan Patridge on 05/08/2001 2:54 PM EST:



Our advisor is the head of Emerson lab! muhahahaha... Although i've never really run into a situation where there aren't free machines.

In seriousness though, thanks for the advice... I'm starting to realize they won't give us any money, but they will help us find it... So I'm going to see what they can find. We'll find a way.

And NEVER NEVER NEVER will I quit FIRST for FSAE!!! hahahahahahhahaha. NEVER... I have some friends on FSAE who are trying to recruit me and it isn't gunna happen. You evil FSAE people won't leave me alone. However, I might get involved in one of the mechatronics projects once I get the FIRST team here self-sufficient.

Patrick

: When I was at Cornell and on the Formula SAE racing team, we all had to look for donations wherever we could get them. I was on the fuel team, among others, and was able to get several expensive parts donated for the car both years I was on the team. I know last year the team got two $3000+ differentials donated. We did have a substantial sponsorship from GM, along with many other smaller sponsorships from local companies and team alumni, but we saved a lot of money just by making most of the car ourselves, taking full advantage of one of Cornell's machine shops (BTW, FSAE has dibs on the Emerson machine shop in Rhodes! :-P) No, Cornell didn't give us any money either, but they did give us an office in Upson to work out of, an auto lab the team shares with another team, and use of their machine shops. In short, look for company sponsorships and local facilities you can take advantage of, or quit FIRST and join the racing team.