- Entrant: Wreck Racing
- Total Budget: $1099.50
- Event Year: 2011
Georgia Tech has a history of bringing homebrewed, forced-induction setups to our $2000 Challenge. For our 2011 gathering, the team entered a Miata powered by a forced-fed Lexus V8, a setup good enough for a fifth-place finish.
The team had bounced back from adversity to make the big show. When …
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Ah yes, the first racecar I ever worked on. Don't forget to mention it won the Challenge the year before in 2010. We pretty much ruined a winning recipe by adding the supercharger and swapping the trans for a manual.
That wing was an aerospace student's senior design project, if I recall correctly, and was rumored to support the weight of 4 freshmen.
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RIP In Pieces