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MSU students experience the adrenaline of learning while building racecar

Montana State University’s first student-built racecar is 660 pounds, has a roaring engine, fat wheels, sits just a few inches off the ground, can burn rubber, goes 84 miles per hour and, frankly, makes some of its creators nervous.

"It’s acceleration, it’s ability to take tight turns and just sitting so close to the ground and tires makes it feel like you’re going 100 mph even when you’re going much slower," said Alex Woidtke, one the engineering students who built the car.

"My first couple of runs in it were really slow," he said. "I was scared of it."

The car was a one-year joint project among seniors working on their capstone-engineering project for graduation and the school’s Society of Automotive Engineers’ club. The culmination of the project was the national SAE Formula West competition against 70 other universities in Fontana, Calif., in mid-June.

By Tracy Ellig, MSU News Service

Full Story: http://www.montana.edu/cpa/news/nwview.php?article=3900

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