About

We have completed our seventh car, FK07! Aiming to continue our streak of one-year build cycles, we wrapped up design in the fall of 2024 and had the car ready to test in April 2024. We then took the car to Michigan to test our luck in the FSAE IC competition against 113 other teams from around the world.

Our main design change for this year was the full aero package, the first that the team has ever seen. Our Aerodynamics subsystem put in hundreds of hours of work into the design, analysis, and manufacture of the wings, and they successfully held up and improved our vehicle's handling and performance. One of our goals for this year was to improve the reliability of our car as we suffered numerous mechanical failures in previous years and we were successful on that front, not having to do any major repairs at comp. Some electrical woes did hinder our performance and unfortunately we were not able to improve on our performance from previous years. Though the car and team shows great promise for future endeavors and we hope to bring the best car we have ever made to comp next year!

 

FK07 Leadership

Team Captain: Peter Szalay

Engineering Manager: Catie Vaughn

Chief Engineer: Alex Kogos

 

Results

Competing in May 2025, the team brought FK07 up to Michigan to put it to the test. While initial testing showed promise, some woes in late testing and into competition proved too much for us to fix in the time we had left so FK07 was not able to perform as well as we hoped. In the end, FK07 scored 269.3 points putting us in 67th place overall. 

Cost: 55 pts

Presentation: 19.6 pts

Design: 60 pts

Acceleration: 46.3 pts

Skidpad: 35.4

Autocross: 51.9 pts

Endurance: 1

Efficiency: ---

Total: 371.1 points!