UWA Motorsport Dominates Australasian Competition
The University of Western Australia's world class Motorsport team was awarded 1st place overall performance at the Formula SAE championships held in Melbourne over the weekend.
The team, whose 2004 car won the Best Designed Vehicle and came second overall in the international Formula SAE championships in Detroit earlier this year, has now blitzed the Australasian competition with their 2005 vehicle.
In addition to winning the overall competition, they also won individual awards for Engineering Design, Endurance, Presentation and Autocross. The UWA team also achieved the highest total score at any Australasian Formula SAE event.
"Each year our Motorsport team wins international awards. There is no doubt the Motorsport project and others available to UWA students ensure that our graduates are exceptionally well prepared for employment as engineers and managers, and are highly sought after by employers," said Professor Mark Bush Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics.
"Students involved in the Motorsport project develop and demonstrate extraordinary skills in teamwork, management and leadership, technology, design and analysis, financial management, health and safety and marketing."
The seventy undergraduate students involved in the 2005 UWA Motorsport team designed, built, financed, managed and competed in an open wheel racing car. The Formula SAE competition tests the vehicles in a range of events including endurance racing and rates the teams on their capacity to plan, finance and market their project to a board of investors.
The next challenge for the UWA team is to compete again in Detroit during May 2006, with the aim of winning the overall performance at the international competition.