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New York or BUST 🏁
Here is our long-awaited recap of our New York competition experience! 🏎️𖦹 ׂ 𓈒 🏁 ／ ⋆ ۪
On our way to Rochester, we had the privilege of staying at Narm to test and prepare the car for tech inspections. We had a great time using the beautiful property as a test track to prepare our drivers for the upcoming events.
For dynamic events, we ranked 23rd on our cost report and 28th in the business competition. Despite passing tech on the 3rd day, we were able to participate in all dynamic events, ranking 37th in acceleration, 42nd in S&T, and 43rd in endurance, which we completed successfully in 32 laps.
Experiences like these would not be possible without the continuous generosity and support of our sponsors, alumni, members, and community. We are grateful for opportunities like these to grow as engineers, professionals, and individuals.
Looking forward to another great year!

Here’s a recap of our competition in Oregon!🏁
Most of the journey across the country was spent working hard to put the finishing touches on the car and test-driving before arriving in Oshkosh. But of course, a trip like this could not be made without stopping to enjoy the amazing scenery.
We had a great time at the competition, finishing 29th out of 70+ teams overall. Other notable scores included 9th place in rock crawl, 19th place in hill climb, and 35th in endurance after successfully completing 17 laps around the track.
Going to competitions like these would not be possible without the support and hard work of our generous sponsors, alumni, and dedicated team members.  
Stay posted for our New York competition recap in the near future!

A Daytona post? In April???

Since we’re still catching up on our events, we wanted to share a bit about some of the volunteering our team got involved with this year!

Working at the Daytona 500, Rolex 24, Coke Zero, and Bike Week are always amazing opportunities for our members to meet new people on the team, raise money, and watch races! Fundraising events like these are essential to supporting the manufacturing of the car and getting us to competitions. We are grateful for the opportunities offered by .restaurants to volunteer at these events and can’t wait to help out again!

⏳ 16 days until Oregon!

Our team has been busy in the machine shop lately...

Since last year, we’ve been working constantly to get everything ready for the competition next month. The support of our sponsor, Online Carbide, has helped us stay on track machining our parts! Thanks to their generosity, we have been able to acquire the endmills that we’ve used to machine various parts like our spherical housings, steering rack, and gears.

Of course, none of this would be possible without the hard work and dedication of our members. Gathering a team to work in the machine shop has been a year-long effort: from Tyler leading workshops for interested members, to those same individuals actively machining parts for the car now.

We are looking forward to sharing more updates with you all as the car comes together!

⏳ 27 days until Oregon!

We know it’s been a while since we’ve posted about the team, but here’s the first of many updates from this semester!

Despite the cold weather, we successfully hosted our spring New Member Knights with .formula !

It was great getting to meet so many interested attendees and share our current members’ experiences working on vehicles, participating in competitions, and rising into leadership positions. Events like these help our team share the benefits that Knights Racing provides both professionally and personally and gives new members the opportunity to get involved with our team projects almost immediately.

We were glad to talk with so many new faces during the New Member Knight events, and it has been great working with all the members who have joined since then!

⏳ 29 days until Oregon!

Want to learn SolidWorks, but don’t know where to start?

Attend this workshop to learn beginner-level skills from our team!

🗓️ Tuesday, February 10th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍 ENG2 - 304

Interested in joining Knights Racing?

Come by during our New Member Knight events this week to learn all about our teams and ways to get involved!

⏰: February 3rd and 4th, 7:30 PM
📍: 76 Neptune Drive, Orlando, FL 32826
👤: Open to all majors!

Hope to see you there!

Happy New Year!

Our team made the most of our winter break by finalizing the chassis design and fabricating our roll cage!

The late nights and tireless efforts from our team, guided by Gia, offered our new team additions, Cordae and Andres, the opportunity to learn and apply their welding and assembly skills.

Cordae made great contributions during both the design and assembly phases, focusing on jigs as the team continued to adjust the design in CAD. Along with Andres, these members also began their welding journey at the beginning of the Fall semester, and the work they have done shows a promising future for them as the welders of our team.

All of this work could not have been accomplished without the support of our amazing sponsors, Old Goat Custom Woods and Aircraft Spruce & Specialty Co.

We are so proud of the work our members accomplished over the past month and are excited to keep sharing our progress this semester!

Stay tuned for more updates...

Our second sponsor of Sponsormas is Polymaker Filament! We used the filament for various projects including PVC chassis and spacers. Thank you again to Polymaker and come back tomorrow for day 3!