S&T’s Baja team is back on campus after their ambitious second ’08 design competition, and they report a significant improvement over the race in Tennessee. You might remember that they withdrew from the last month’s grueling endurance race with a shattered CV joint, but we hear that they finished ALL the events at Caterpillar’s sprawling test facility near Peoria. We’ll have more info as we get it, but in the meantime here are a couple of shots from the earlier event.
The team had probably jettisoned the floatation chambers because the Peoria event substituted a rock crawl for the amphibious challenge.
Did we mention that Caterpillar is a top supporter of the Miners’ design teams? They LOVE to hire our competition team veterans because they know our grads can contribute to their goals as soon as they walk in the door, and CAT shows their gratitude by providing some pretty heavy cash support to the SDELC and all its teams.
