Students Get +1500 Miles Per Gallon

During the Society of Automotive Engineers’ Formula SAE Competition held May 15-20, students from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terra Haute, IN won top prize for supermileage in the college division. They clocked in at 1,541 miles per gallon! Winners of the high school division did even better with an amazing 1,692 mpg!

UW-Madison won the SAE Foundation Cup, plus several other awards, finishing in the top 10 with the only vehicle running on an alternative fuel, using E-85.

The Formula SAE competition is an annual challenge for student teams to design, fabricate and compete with small formula-style racing cars to accomplish various objectives. Team cars are judged on cost, presentation, design, acceleration, skid pad, autocross, and endurance-economy. Entries come from all over the world.

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Formula SAE
2007 Results

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