(Left to right) Daniel Cruz, the suspension lead, Eddie Park, project manager, Kevin Estrada, power training worker stand next to the race car located in the Engineering & Computer Science building. (Paul Magdaleno / Daily Titan)
The Titan Racing Formula team is revving up for the rest of the year as they continue work on their car.
Along with being a club for underclassmen, work on the car is also a senior design project for the seniors majoring in mechanical engineering. The club is known as a legacy team that has been around since 2007.
While most students will get to rest after finals week coming up, the team will continue to work throughout the winter break. This year’s team was assembled before the end of Spring 2021, started around June, and will continue to work until May.
This all leads up to the big competition taking place in Michigan in May 2022. For the seniors, it is a reward for all of the hard work they have put in throughout the year.
Kevin Estrada, one of the seniors, works on power training.
“It's a never ending process but we use this process to actually make something work. So it's a lot of hours, but at the end of the day it's gonna be worth seeing something creative based solely on our ideas,” Estrada said. “It’s pretty cool honestly.”
The Titan Racing Formula Team will compete next May in Michigan. (Paul Magdaleno / Daily Titan)
Right now, the car is about 30% done. In the next month, they hope to start seeing improvements and keep advancing towards the completed product. Then, they will start to meet up with local Formula Society of Automotive Engineers teams to do friendly competitions to test out how the car is doing.
The main concentration of the car is to see how it behaves and handles rather than how fast it goes. This focuses on the way the car turns, when it accelerates and when it brakes. Although the car does have a max horsepower of 75 mph, only one of the competitions that the team usually competes in focuses on speed, while the others focus on how the car handles.
“Even though we are building a race car, this project is a mechanical engineering project first, and then a race car project last. So we focus more on the engineering aspect on how things work, how the vehicle will behave in certain situations, and we try to work around it,” said Eddie Park, the project manager and worker on the suspension team.
The COVID pandemic has affected the team as well, with some of the competitions being cut out. The team itself has been cut in half from its usual 20-25 people down to just 12, Estrada said.
Daniel Cruz, the suspension lead for the team, said he is excited to see what the team can do.
“This year, coming out of COVID, building a brand new car from scratch. That’s probably the motivation I want to see. It keeps me here and aside from that the team aspect this year I think is pretty good, keeps us going and moving forward,” Cruz said.
Though it’s primarily for engineers, anyone with an interest in cars or engineering is also welcome to join, Estrada said.
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