Thanks to generous Stanford Alumni for giving to the Stanford Fund which is offering the Stanford Formula Racing Team stage II sponsorship. Because of you, the Stanford Formula Racing Team will be able to gain real-world engineering experience.

The team met with Red Bull this weekend and representatives of Red Bull Racing pledged Level I sponsorship. Along with a few other perks, we'll be getting a bunch of free Red Bull, and tickets to an F1 viewing party. Thanks Red Bull Racing!

Exponent, an engineering and scientific consulting firm, has pledged Level I sponsorship to the Stanford Formula Racing Team. Thanks Exponent!

The Mathworks, the producer of the famous MATLAB and Simulink product line, have generously offered Level II sponsorship to the Stanford Formula Racing Team. Thank you Mathworks!

Larry Schwartz of Schlumberger generously offered to Sponsor the Stanford Formula SAE Team monetarily and by providing the team with coveralls for work in the pit. Hopefully we'll get a visit from an engineer from Schlumbergber as well. Thanks Schlumberger!

Alan Kohler from Yuasa has agreed to donate four motorcycle batteries to the Stanford Formula Racing Team. They are being shipped to Alex's house and should arrive soon. The model is the YT12A-BS. Thanks Yuasa!

A handful of members of the Stanford Formula Racing Team met with prospective sponsors this past weekend, including Schlumberger, GM, Fluor, Mathworks, HRL, and Lam. We sat through various presentations, and made our case for sponsoring SFR. Most of the representatives seemed genuinely interested in the project and promised to do their best to pitch it the appropriate person at their company.

Alex, Bernie, and Mike met with Nanci Howe, Noe Lozano, and Chris Edwards to discuss group certification. The meeting went extremely well, and with the support of our faculty advisers we were able to convince Nanci that building the car is a viable project. We are now an approved, ASSU-recognized student group, cleared to fundraise, cleared to race.

Around ten team members put together a mock chassis this weekend given the measurements in the electronic drawing that Brian and Alex had put together. This build session was all possible thanks to the Kwan family's lending of their garage and some tools, and thanks to Brian's pillaging cough "borrowing" of some tools from various build sites on campus. We leaned that that base of the rear triangle had to be widened about two inches, and that the rest of the drawing was fairly accurate. Building the mock chassis helped us to visualize where we wanted to put the steering rack to minimize bump steer while also being structurally plausible and good for driver ergonomics. It also helped us visualize where to place the bell-cranks and where we wanted to mount our shocks. Check out all the pictures in the Gallery. As always the pictures are also available in high res on the ftp server.

About 14 members of the team made a trip to Berkeley to check out their car and facilities. Pictures from the Berkeley trip are all up on the ftp server and posted in the Gallery. Feel free to upload your own.

Pictures are up in the Gallery from the trip to check out Ted's dyno. We uploaded some videos on the ftp server too. The 2L engine that Ted has mounted on the dyno produces over 270hp normally aspirated and turns 11k. This engine is a monster. Needless to say the trip was exhilarating while also being informative. A lot of the pictures are of the dyno itself, in case we ever wanted to build a dyno ourselves.

Pictures are up in the Gallery from the trip to Ted and Nancy's that Alex, Malcom, and Bernie took. The picture of the wall with all the framed certificates on it are COURSE RECORDS that Nancy has made. This couple is truly great.

Pictures of the Pomona trip are up in the Gallery. Pomona hosted an autocross, so along with being able to host their own formula event, they also got to make some money and ride in a variety of modified street cars. Yeah...that Evo, we definitely rode in that. The interior behind the front seat was completely stripped and the turbo was pressing 22psi. I've never felt a car pull through a corner as hard as that Evo. And, oh yeah, the Z06, that blonde girl was driving....yup, we rode in that as well.