About Us

Phoenix Racing is an organization at Olin College of Engineering that embodies this spirit of creativity. We are currently creating a vehicle to compete in the SAE Baja East Competition held in Alabama in April. 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 driver interface, electronic components, 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.

This year we have been generously supported by a number of companies individuals including DRS Technologies, Izhar Armony, and Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, ActiveShock, Bose, iRobot, and the Chisa Family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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New Gearbox Input Shaft

Wed, 05/06/2009 - 10:14 — Matthew Roy

Andrew Tsang machined a new Gearbox Input shaft to replace the one that epically bent at competition. Once it's all reassembled the car should be back to driving on Parcel B to get people more seat time before we recess for the summer. Read more >>

Competition Results

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:35 — Daniel Sotingco

So the competition results have finally been released and they can be accessed here: http://students.sae.org/competitions/bajasae/. We were 75th out of 88 teams. We plan to fix our vehicle to get it into working condition again, and we all returned from competition with lessons learned for next year.  A handful of small research projects are in the works for the rest of the school year so that we can hit the ground running as the next season starts.  Read more >>

The Enduro - Part 2

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 19:55 — Joseph Funke

If you were to envision the Endurance course, it would be similar to a bike trial through woods, but with more...challenges. Read more >>

The Enduro - Part 1

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 19:34 — Joseph Funke

As the first driver to lead off the endurance race, I woke up this morning with one thought in mind--don't break the car. My one objective, and I am sorry to say that I did not succeed. But let me walk you through what happened, as its a pretty cool story. Read more >>

Day 3 Recap

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 07:58 — Matthew Roy

Day 3: Acceleration, Traction, Maneuverability and Suspension events. Read more >>

Walking the course

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 02:14 — Jeffrey Atkinson

The premier event at the Mini Baja competition here in Alabama is Sunday's endurance race. The race will last for 4 hours on a 2.2 mile course over rough terrain made far, far rougher by backhoes and dumptrucks full of rocks and sand.
Having survived Saturday's brake test, acceleration, maneuverability, traction events, we get to tackle a laundry list of fantastic obstacles:
Mud bogs
Giant rocks
Stream crossings
A stream crossing with giant rocks in it
a 3-foot cliff
a 30-foot cliff
more mud bogs Read more >>

Congratulations!

Sat, 04/18/2009 - 16:51 — tdunphy

Congratulations on all that you have accomplished already!  Continued best wishes to all of you.

We're thinking of you.

~ Terri

Safety and Brake Testing

Sat, 04/18/2009 - 12:52 — Xavier Ziemba

This morning we completed the second part of the safety inspection, the brake test. Given that I was one of the two members of the driver interface team present, I had the appropriate task of driving the car for the event. Read more >>

Brake Test Passed!

Sat, 04/18/2009 - 11:19 — Matthew Roy

Brake TestBrake Test We passed the brake test and are good to go! Read more >>

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