Issue 24

September2016

Chief Editor Justin Bekker

Contributors

Summer Racing Over the summer, Warrior Racing continued to test

and race RWX and RW9. This included taking

“Xena” to a hosted by the University of Pittsburgh,

and an autocross in Oscoda, MI. RWX continued to

perform, finishing 3rd at the Pittsburgh shootout, and

winning the Formula SAE class at the Oscoda auto-

cross. The team continued to make improvements to

RWX adding pneumatic shifting for the first time on a

Road Warrior. Warrior Racing also hosted our sec-

ond annual end of season shootout. This gave first

year team members a chance to drive a formula car

for the first time. It also a goodbye for our two gradu-

ating members, team President Tirath Matharu and

lead analyst Pranav Sridhar.

Help Us Take the Checkered Flag Warrior Racing is taking part in a crowd funding campaign

through the WarriorFunder program at Wayne State Univer-

sity. We are looking to reach our goal of $2,500 to cover our

competition fees this season. We are just over half way there,

at $1,455 but time is running out! We only have until Octo-

ber 14th to reach out goal! To help us out, please visit:

https://warriorfunder.wayne.edu/project/2723 By helping us out, you too could receive some Warrior Rac-

ing gear including t-shirts, hats, team posters. There is also a

chance to receive a personalized shop tour, your name or

logo on our next Road Warrior and passes to Kart to Kart go

karting.

Welcome Warriors Fall marks a busy time for Warrior Racing, we brought RWX and RW9 to many events both on and off

campus. First we took RWX to the Woodward Dream Cruise, not even the rain could dampen our spirits.

Next we had RWX and RW9 on display at Wayne State’s Festifall. We attracted a lot of attention as new

students heard the roar of our Road Warriors. Thanks to all of those that stopped by and took a picture with

out team, including the WSU Cheerleading team, WSU Police, and Dean Farshad Fotoui.

Tire Talks with Dr. Edward Kasprzak Warrior Racing hosted a lecture from Dr. Edward

Kasprzak as part of the SAE Industrial lecture series.

Dr. Kasprzak gave a presentation on tire testing and

the SAE tire testing consortium. He also shared in-

valuable knowledge about the design event and his

Formula SAE experience. Our whole team took in

great information from Dr. Kasprzak’s visit, and we

would like to thank him again for making the trip

down to meet with us. We also got to see Dr.

Kasprzak the following day at the SAE workshop

hosted by Lawrence Tech. Warrior Racing alumni

Adam Niner and Kristina Vujic flipped sides from

spectators to presenters at the workshop, as they cov-

ered team management and organization.

Bake Sale Sept. 29 / 10AM-5PM

College of Engineering Lobby

Game Night Sept. 30 / 8PM

1507 College of Engineering

Past / Current / Future Events Page

Kart 2 Kart

Bake Sales

Whirlyball

Major events, like SAE gatherings or intercollegiate races, need to

have bigger articles on the main page. These events on this page should

be about fundraisers and the such. If there’s updates on the cafe’,

they’d go here. When competition roles around I always do a refresh of

the point breakdown and what happens each day. You can put that

here, but that does deserve a full article (see previous newsletters for

examples)

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Royal Purple has been a part of War-rior Racing for several years now, and we’re always grateful to receive their generous donation of lubri-cants! Thank you Royal Purple!

Relay for Life team “Just Walk It” is a non-profit organization who raises money for cancer research and to pro-vide support to patients. For the past two years they have helped plan our fundraisers and special events, mak-

www.royalpurple.com

main.acsevents.org/goto/JustWalkIt

Warrior Racing is proud to welcome back Liberty’s Gears to our program! They have assisted our team with the precise manufac-turing of many Drivetrain and Suspension components. Needless to say Road Warrior 8 wouldn’t be on the ground without their support! Thank you Liberty’s Gears!

Our team’s success is made possible through the generous donations and sup-port from the following companies. Without them our team would not have the re-sources needed to provide invaluable hands on experience and to manufacture our for-mula cars. From all members of our team, thank you Warrior Racing sponsors!

Brian Geraghty Dr. Michele Grimm Dr. Marcis Jansons

Dave Preston Phil Hughes

Carl Occhialini

The Royce Family Andrew Murrell Sanket Sirpotdar

Jim Vito Angela Childrey The Niner Family

Contact Information & Media Sites

5050 Anthony Wayne Drive

Suite 1530

Detroit, MI 48202

Office Phone - 313.577.3829

Website - fsae.eng.wayne.edu

Facebook - facebook.com/WSUWarriorRacing

YouTube - youtube.com/wsuwarriorracing

President Kristina Vujic

kvujic@wayne.edu

Business Director Adam Niner

adam.niner@wayne.edu