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Cornell Racer#1
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I graduated awhile back so, I was not at the 06 competition but, I heard stories of accidents from my buddies who are on the team now.... :( Must've been a sad day.....
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flynfrog
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i was refering more to the party that took place after the race in the hotel :twisted:
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wowf1
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lol 'World Champs'. Do you know how many other Formula Student competitions there are elsewhere in the world? That reminds me of your baseball 'World Series', confined only to the USA...
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flynfrog
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wowf1 wrote:lol 'World Champs'. Do you know how many other Formula Student competitions there are elsewhere in the world? That reminds me of your baseball 'World Series', confined only to the USA...
you forgot the candian teams :roll:
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RacingManiac
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wowf1 wrote:lol 'World Champs'. Do you know how many other Formula Student competitions there are elsewhere in the world? That reminds me of your baseball 'World Series', confined only to the USA...
it is by far still the biggest and most contested FSAE event in the world...and so far of all the foreign teams only the Aussies have beaten the American teams.....while sadly for the Brits they haven't won a F-student yet..... :roll:
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AeroGT3
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Cornell Racer#1 wrote:CORNELL FSAE baby!! 9 Times WORLD Champs!! :D
With what, 60 people and a massive budget?

That's like Renault bragging about winning the WC with Super Aguri only being 2 pts behind. Considering the resources that are literally thrown at Cornell, they actually have quite a poor team.
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wowf1 wrote:lol 'World Champs'. Do you know how many other Formula Student competitions there are elsewhere in the world? That reminds me of your baseball 'World Series', confined only to the USA...
Before you *try* to bash other's ignorant, it might help to cease being ignorant yourself. The World Series is not confined "only to the USA."

Formula SAE was until recently.
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Ranald
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Sorry for keeping this off topic but where else does the Baseball World Series visit? I always thought it was just the US. Excuse my ingorance.
"I was having a ---" - Kimi Riakkonens response to Martin Brundles questioning of why he had missed Peles presentation to Michael Schumacher before the Brazilian GP 2006.
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RacingManiac
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they come to Canada....there was a time when Toronto won the "world series".....
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AeroGT3 wrote:
Cornell Racer#1 wrote:CORNELL FSAE baby!! 9 Times WORLD Champs!! :D
With what, 60 people and a massive budget?

That's like Renault bragging about winning the WC with Super Aguri only being 2 pts behind. Considering the resources that are literally thrown at Cornell, they actually have quite a poor team.
60 people?? pshhhhh!

Haven't you seen the 80 or so people walking around with Virginia Tech shirts??? :D

I respect Cornell greatly. They established a great formula for success. Minimal changes year to year, sticking with what works. How many teams do you see performing a ground-up re-design each and every year...and they wonder why they don't finish the endurance.

Great design + reliability + decent drivers = Winning. It's pretty simple really...
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flynfrog
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slimjim8201 wrote:
AeroGT3 wrote:
Cornell Racer#1 wrote:CORNELL FSAE baby!! 9 Times WORLD Champs!! :D
With what, 60 people and a massive budget?

That's like Renault bragging about winning the WC with Super Aguri only being 2 pts behind. Considering the resources that are literally thrown at Cornell, they actually have quite a poor team.
60 people?? pshhhhh!

Haven't you seen the 80 or so people walking around with Virginia Tech shirts??? :D

I respect Cornell greatly. They established a great formula for success. Minimal changes year to year, sticking with what works. How many teams do you see performing a ground-up re-design each and every year...and they wonder why they don't finish the endurance.

Great design + reliability + decent drivers = Winning. It's pretty simple really...
you forgot the luck variable :wink:
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Cornell Racer#1
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AeroGT3 wrote:
Cornell Racer#1 wrote:CORNELL FSAE baby!! 9 Times WORLD Champs!! :D
With what, 60 people and a massive budget?

That's like Renault bragging about winning the WC with Super Aguri only being 2 pts behind. Considering the resources that are literally thrown at Cornell, they actually have quite a poor team.
Instead of bashing other teams just coz they're better year after year than teams like yours, you might want to do more research on the team and how much they ACTUALLY get funded! Not much!! We all work hard at the most rigorous engineering program in the nation and spend weekends after weekends in the machine shop to make our cars THE best!

It's funny how everytime some "BIG" school takes up on something, other people bash it by having excuses like *Money*, *Resources*....
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Cornell Racer#1
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flynfrog wrote:
slimjim8201 wrote:
AeroGT3 wrote: With what, 60 people and a massive budget?

That's like Renault bragging about winning the WC with Super Aguri only being 2 pts behind. Considering the resources that are literally thrown at Cornell, they actually have quite a poor team.
60 people?? pshhhhh!

Haven't you seen the 80 or so people walking around with Virginia Tech shirts??? :D

I respect Cornell greatly. They established a great formula for success. Minimal changes year to year, sticking with what works. How many teams do you see performing a ground-up re-design each and every year...and they wonder why they don't finish the endurance.

Great design + reliability + decent drivers = Winning. It's pretty simple really...
you forgot the luck variable :wink:
No need for luck and don't believe in one either! ;) Good engineering + hard work, always pays off as it shows by the record! :roll:
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Ranald
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Again sorry for staying off topic but I would hardly say that a Championship covering 2 countries constitutes a Wolrd Series.
"I was having a ---" - Kimi Riakkonens response to Martin Brundles questioning of why he had missed Peles presentation to Michael Schumacher before the Brazilian GP 2006.
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flynfrog
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Cornell Racer#1 wrote:
flynfrog wrote:
slimjim8201 wrote: 60 people?? pshhhhh!

Haven't you seen the 80 or so people walking around with Virginia Tech shirts??? :D

I respect Cornell greatly. They established a great formula for success. Minimal changes year to year, sticking with what works. How many teams do you see performing a ground-up re-design each and every year...and they wonder why they don't finish the endurance.

Great design + reliability + decent drivers = Winning. It's pretty simple really...
you forgot the luck variable :wink:
No need for luck and don't believe in one either! ;) Good engineering + hard work, always pays off as it shows by the record! :roll:
you guys could have used some luck last year ;)

it did work quite nicely for us though and we had a blast with yoru team back at teh hotel
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