Welcome to Olin College's SAE Baja

Stylized Image of the 2007 Baja Car leading the way.

Welcome to the webpage of Phoenix Racing,
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering’s SAE Baja Team.

Franklin W. Olin, a Cornell-educated engineer and founder of the Olin Corporation, started a philanthropic foundation under his own name which has donated money to build and outfit 72 buildings on college campuses throughout the United States. In the 1990’s, the Franklin W. Olin Foundation made an unprecedented move, using $400 million dollars to start a new college in response to calls for reform in engineering education from the National Science Foundation and engineering community. Olin College was born, with the goal of educating engineers with “business and entrepreneurship skills, creativity and an understanding of the social, political and economic contexts of engineering”.

The first full class arrived on campus in fall 2002, and today 304 enthusiastic, passionate, entrepreneurial engineering students make up the student body, receiving four-year, full tuition scholarships. Our amazing faculty and staff complete the Olin community, in which creativity and entrepreneurship are encouraged in the spirit of Franklin W. Olin himself.

Phoenix Racing is an organization at Olin that embodies this spirit of creativity. We are currently creating a vehicle to compete in the SAE Baja Midwest Competition held in Illinois in May. (See the competition rules.) We will design this vehicle from scratch, starting with sketches and a CAD model and ultimately fabricating the competition vehicle. The design of the vehicle is absolutely critical, as all vehicles are required to use the same engine. Therefore, SAE Baja comes down to the chassis, drive-train, suspension, steering, and weight. We are excited about this challenge, and look forward to combining our skill-sets and engineering education to produce the best vehicle we can.

Welcome to our webpage, where you can learn all about Phoenix Racing at Olin College. Inside you will learn about our team members, what we do, and where we're going now. You can also find a gallery of photos to help you get a feel for what we do.

We love what we’re doing, but we need your help. While you're here find out about the opportunities we offer our sponsors, and how you can help us create the best possible vehicle.

Joe Funke and Jenn Cross on behalf of the Phoenix Racing Team

Special Thanks to our Sponsors

We would like to extend a huge hand of thanks to our sponsors. They really do make a huge difference in letting us do all kinds of amazing stuff.

General Dynamics and Olin College have done incredible things to help us out. When everything breaks and we don't make to it competition, and when we go to competition and take names they're right there with us all the way. We can't say enough about all the awesome things they do for us.

As we begin working on the 2008 season we're also beginning our search for sponsors. If you or someone you know might be interested in helping us in either a big or small way we can show you all the ways you can help!

While you're here don't forget to take a look at where we're headed for updates on our latest plans for the season.

Andrew Tsang,
Phoenix Racing