Arrival

We have made it to Lincoln, NE!!!! It will always be a drive from Sacramento, CA to Lincoln, Ne. We pulled into our hotel at 1115pm on Tuesday night. We pulled the car out to give it a once over before technical inspection. So far so good.

Wednesday will consist of registering the team, driver gear inspection and mechanical inspection. We may have stuff to change on the car, but it should not be to much. Once we pass the mechanical inspection we will be cleared to start all the dynamic tech events. This will take place on Thursday, along with our Business, Cost and Design presentations.

2 Days till we leave for Lincoln, NE

We are extremely excited to get on the road for competition. Everyone has been working hard on the car. The team has been lucky enough to test the car everyday this week. Evil Genius Racing let us come in and use their Dyno for a day. All that data will be put to good use over the next week and the up coming years. I am also pleased to announce that we have partnered with Sonoma Raceway to help sell discounted tickets to the upcoming NASCAR, WTCC and Indy events. Visit www.racesonoma.com/fsaehornet to purchase your tickets now! For each ticket that is sold, Sonoma Raceway will donate either $10 or $5 to the team. If you have any questions please feel free to contact our Sponsorship Sales Manager Dave Piecuch at office (707) 933-3442 cell (707) 334-9808 Fax (707) 938-8691 or email at dpiecuch@racesonoma.com.

Keep checking back! More updates to come when we leave and are on the road.

FSAE Hornet Sonoma Raceway

Testing

Everyone is on a high after the unveiling party. We are very lucky to have the car done to get a ton of testing done. There have been some challenges that we have encountered though, they will be fixed in time for competition. The count down is getting close! 1 week from today we will be on the road to Lincoln, Ne.

Unveiling Success

A very big Thank You to everyone that came to the unveiling event today! It was a huge success and we look forward to doing more events like this in the future. It was an incredible feeling for the team to be able to show the car off to our family members, advisers and sponsors. I attached some quick photos from the event, more will come later. It is very exciting to know that there are three cars in our garage right now. None of this would have been possible without everyone's support. This is just as much your car as it is the teams. We are very excited to be posting more pictures now.

After today we will be running the car as much as possible in order to get ready for competition. We will be leaving June 17th! That is soooo close

Sooo Close!!

Just a sneak peak of the car. We can not wait till Saturday to show it off!!!!

Don't forget 11am is when the unveiling party gets underway. We will be at CSUSacramento in Santa Clara Hall room #1358. Check out our event page at http://hr2013unveil.eventbrite.com

See you there

Thank you!!!

A HUGE thank you to Mr. Joel Switzer! He is a former student at CSU Sacramento who participated on the team for a number of year. After graduating he has done very well for himself. Now he has come back and donated to the team. We appreciate all of the students and faculty who have been on the team in the past, present and the up and coming future. We are gearing up for our big unveiling! This will be held June 1st at CSU Sacramento in Santa Clara 1357. There will be a BBQ, silent auction and all of our cool cars to look at. Please stop by and chat with team members. We are excited to show off our final product before the Lincoln, NE competition. please RSVP at http://hr2013unveil.eventbrite.com

See you all June 1st!

Unveiling!

Sorry to be m.i.a for a bit. But we have a huge announcement! We will be holding our first ever unveiling on June 1st! At 11am we will be firing up the BBQ and starting our silent auction. All money donated will go straight to the team to help pay for the travel to Lincoln, NE and any unexpected parts for the car. We are very excited to share this with everyone. Please let us know if you will be going at http://hr2013unveil.eventbrite.com or at http://www.facebook.com/hornetracing

Composites Manufacturing

The frame is spending some time in the composites room getting a carbon fiber makeover!

HR2013 Progress!

Apologies for the sparse updates!  We have been so busy lately that it's easy to forget to update our website.  Here are some pictures from the last couple weeks of shop time!

HR2013 Manufacturing is Starting

We have already had some team members in the shop making early prototypes/test pieces! Nice to see that things are ramping up in the shop, we look forward to seeing some completed assemblies soon! We would like to thank two of our sponsors, MasterCAM and CamBam for providing us with CAM software for our CNC machines.

Hornet Racing at Sacramento International Auto Show

Hornet racing will have both our 2011 and 2012 cars on display this weekend at the Sacramento International Auto Show in Cal Expo.  Come see us in the Mini Autobahn room! Here is a link to the event: http://sacautoshow.com/

Homecoming Saturday 10/12/12

Hornet Racing will have its doors open from 10am to 3pm all day tomorrow! Stop by and check out our cars! We will be at the ECS Alumni BBQ after that near the alumni center.

Important Meeting Thursday

We will be having a very important meeting this Thursday! We will be reviewing the goals we originally set in August for a refresher, and more importantly, watching a presentation on the 2013 rules.

We Are Registered!

We officially registered for the Lincoln, NE event today.  Our car number is 13!

Design Meeting

There is a Saturday design meeting today in 4001 to work on designs, modelling and design review.

General Meeting Today

There is a general meeting today in Riverside 1003 from 6pm to 7pm.  Whether you're a veteran member or the team or curious about what we do, join us.

Design Saturday

Design Saturday is here again.  Meet in 4001 to work on solid modeling and design.

Electrical Team Meeting

Cory is holding a meeting for the Electrical team at 12pm in the Formula room today.  Anyone that wants to help out with the electrical system in the car should contact Cory and visit the meeting Thursday.

General Meeting Today

There is a General Meeting in Riverside 1003 from 6 to 7 pm today.  Notes can be found in the team Google Docs folder in the members section.

Safety Training & Injector Port Casting

Loren is hosting safety training in the student shop today and we will be making green sand molds and casting injector ports today from 11am to 4pm.  Contact Loren or visit him in the student machine shop today to find out more information.  If you still need to be safety certified for the machine shop, contact him to plan out when you can do so.  Remember to have closed toed shoes, pants and safety glasses!