Recently, our new Team Captain Adam Reynolds had the chance to sit down with the College of Engineering’s media team and talk about the results from FSAE Michigan 2022! Check out the article they wrote here!

 

Our trip was full of success, knowledge growth, and setting up for the future. This has been the most documented competition in the team’s history, with our primary objective being to learn as much as possible. FK04 was an iteration zero car - one meant as a baseline for future development and testing. This foundation is very strong, and it showed at Michigan International Speedway last week! Below is a list of our event scores from Michigan May 2022:

 

 

 

Static Events:

Sales Presentation - 73/75 pts, 3rd place of 99 teams!

Cost Presentation - 84.7/100 pts, also 3rd place overall!

Design Judging - 80/150 pts, a 10 point increase from FK3.5!

 

 

 

Adam and Audrey with 3rd place in Sales Presentation, and Ashley and John J. with 3rd in Cost

 

 

Dynamic Events:   

Acceleration - 47th  

Autocross - 35th

Skidpad - 33rd 

Efficiency - no points received

Endurance - DNF

 

 

FK04 during dynamic events, driven by Colton C, Ethan K, John P, and Michael S ...........

 

Overall Placement: 41st

 

During endurance, FK04 had a fuel leak from one of the injectors that had come unseated. This caused us to be black flagged after 1.5 laps. While this is certainly a disappointment, overall, competition was a massive success. We improved drastically over our 67th percentile finish in 2019, placed on the podium in two categories, beat several team records, and learned so much along the way that we can’t wait to bring to the future.