About Us

Phoenix Racing is an organization at Olin College of Engineering that embodies this spirit of creativity. We are currently creating a vehicle to compete in the SAE Baja East Competition held in Alabama in April. We will design this vehicle from scratch, starting with sketches and a CAD model and ultimately fabricating the competition vehicle. The design of the vehicle is absolutely critical, as all vehicles are required to use the same engine. Therefore, SAE Baja comes down to the chassis, drive-train, suspension, steering and driver interface, electronic components, and weight. We are excited about this challenge, and look forward to combining our skill-sets and engineering education to produce the best vehicle we can.

This year we have been generously supported by a number of companies individuals including DRS Technologies, Izhar Armony, and Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, ActiveShock, Bose, iRobot, and the Chisa Family.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Video Link and Slides for Dec. 21 Design Review

Sun, 12/20/2009 - 15:51 — Daniel Sotingco

The video link for our design review is at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/phoenix-racing

The design review will be on Monday, December 21, from 12:40pm to 1:40pm.  Please e-mail feedback and comments to daniel.sotingco@students.olin.edu.  Thanks! Read more >>

Finalized Time for Dec. 21 Design Review

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 11:43 — Daniel Sotingco

The finalized time and location for the Baja design review is 12:40pm in AC113, on Monday, December 21.  We will be videoconferencing our design review for anyone who wishes to come but can't make it in person.  Please e-mail daniel.sotingco@students.olin.edu if you would like to attend and/or would like access to the video. Read more >>

Tentative Time for Dec. 21 Design Review

Tue, 12/08/2009 - 23:33 — Daniel Sotingco

The tentative time for our Dec. 21 design review at Olin Expo is 9:10am.  A firm time will be posted once we get one from the Expo Committee.

Upcoming External Design Review: December 21, 2009

Thu, 12/03/2009 - 23:36 — Daniel Sotingco

Phoenix Racing will be having our first external design review of the season on December 21, 2009.  We will be presenting as part of Olin's Expo program, which will take place from 9AM to 3PM.  A final time for our design review will be posted as soon as we have it worked out.  We would especially welcome Baja alumni and professional engineers to give us advice on our technical work.  If you would like to attend, please e-mail me at daniel.sotingco@students.olin.edu. Read more >>

A New Season for Phoenix Racing

Thu, 10/22/2009 - 23:12 — Daniel Sotingco

    Greetings!  My name is Daniel Sotingco, and I am this season’s Design Manager for Phoenix Racing.  Our team had a very memorable season last year, in which we brought our speedy car to Baja SAE Alabama.  We placed 75th out of 88 teams, and would likely have placed higher, had it not been for an incident in which our vehicle dropped onto a rock and bent a gearbox input shaft.  On the positive side, our returning members this year likely have the most competition experience of any Baja team in Olin history, and with that experience comes a lot of i Read more >>

An Outsider's Driving Experience

Thu, 09/03/2009 - 11:41 — Eamon Doyle

Though it has been a few years since I was an active Baja participant, I have always been willing to share my opinions and experience (good or otherwise) building karts and other vehiclewith the team.  Near the end of the spring 2009 semester, they were generous enough to let me have a few laps around the track
in the 2009 car and I must say that I was impressed.

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New Gearbox Input Shaft

Wed, 05/06/2009 - 10:14 — Matthew Roy

Andrew Tsang machined a new Gearbox Input shaft to replace the one that epically bent at competition. Once it's all reassembled the car should be back to driving on Parcel B to get people more seat time before we recess for the summer. Read more >>

Competition Results

Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:35 — Daniel Sotingco

So the competition results have finally been released and they can be accessed here: http://students.sae.org/competitions/bajasae/. We were 75th out of 88 teams. We plan to fix our vehicle to get it into working condition again, and we all returned from competition with lessons learned for next year.  A handful of small research projects are in the works for the rest of the school year so that we can hit the ground running as the next season starts.  Read more >>

The Enduro - Part 2

Sun, 04/19/2009 - 19:55 — Joseph Funke

If you were to envision the Endurance course, it would be similar to a bike trial through woods, but with more...challenges. Read more >>

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