The Virginia Tech Motorsports team participated in the Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) collegiate competition, from May 10 – 15, at the Michigan International Speedway. For 35 years SAE has held an annual collegiate competition where teams from around the globe engineer, build, and operate an amateur, custom racecar.
"The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a design team to develop a small Formula-style race car. The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer.