Georgia Tech’s Wreck Racing, a fixture at the event for 15 years, showed up with a V8-powered BMW 5 Series, a motorized couch, and an army of 40-plus student engineers.
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/12/it-seems-that-to-make-insight-winner-in.html
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/12/the-contraption-parade-is-part-of.html
https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2018/12/georgia-tech-wramblin-wreck-pretty-cool.html
Seriously attempting to win the Challenge puts drivers in a situation of trying new things for the first time this year, including actual bodywork and paint, CAN bus and computer troubleshooting, drag racing, how nitrous works, autocross driving, chassis bracing and geometry, scavenge for speed parts on the cheap, etc
the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge is an event created 20 years ago with a simple goal: Show the world that racing doesn’t need to be expensive. This year’s cap for all teams was just $2000.
Nearly 70 teams registered for the October 25-26 event Central Florida’s Gainesville Raceway. In addition to the drag racing, the competition included autocross and concours judging.
it does an 11.6 in the 1/4 https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/articles/millennial-falcon-meet-calvin-nelson-and-his-stude/
the down force of the wing and air dam was initially calculated mathematically using calculus curvilinear equations and then measured by placing a wing on a set of bathroom scales in a flat-bed trailer pulled at 45 mph!
This turbocharged LS-swapped Pontiac Sunbird went 9.847 in the 1/4
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/datsaniti-1980-datsun-210-wagon-vq35-swap-2018-cha/138776/page32/
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/today-challenge-photos/
https://www.facebook.com/grassrootsmotorsports/
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