I am sure that everyone remembers our car and remembers just as well how many issues we have been having with it. We are currently doing what we can to gather the resources to fabricate a new chassis that will allow use of our existing bodywork.

Team funding is a big thing our school could really work on, and if anyone has any suggestions for our school, please feel free to contact either me or Lynn Davis. We were only able to run one race this season, and sadly that race broke the budget for our team. Rather then to continue on by paying solely out of pocket, we decided to spend 2009 gathering resources.

Since a few of my electrathon friends and competitors have been contacting me, I might as well state my results for 2009. We won the 2009 SCCA North West Region Spec Miata Championship by a mere one point!!!


Less then a week after winning the championship, I was contacted by John Hudak, and asked to test his Honda NSX. I will drive John's car a limited SCCA season next year when I am not in my Miata chasing down championships or in the Electrathon Car.

Glad to see you here! The Electrathon had to be cheaper to race than the Miata was.

Aaron

-- Edited by electrathon on Monday 26th of October 2009 08:10:04 PM

I think you'd actually be rather surprised how small my miata budget was this year! A big thanks for setting up this website, about time we had a good place to talk as opposed to E-mail!

Pulled the car out of my shop (We store the car at my house because we have no room at our school) and gave it a good cleaning. Also took the time to take a picture or two:

O man, that NSX that guys gonna let you drive is sweet! I've always wanted to road race in the SCCA but all there is here in Michigan is dirt and asphalt ovals. Your electric car doesn't look too bad either

Jake,

Thanks man! Sadly our main investor backed out and the car sold in November.

However, here is a short video of some in-car footage.



The car has a stock 3.0L motor (only mods being a K&N filter, exhaust, and a dry-sump oil system) and makes up all time in cornering and braking. A very fun car to drive indeed.

-- Edited by Kyle Keenan on Monday 15th of February 2010 08:04:05 PM

Kyle, Great video!!! Portland International sure looks different at that speed than it does in an Electrathon at 40. Mike

man that thing rips for a 3.0, thats what i have in my dodge but those nsx's are pretty much made for racing. Hope you find another ride

I still got the miata, so I'll drive that this season. Hoping to get a race in the electrathon car as well!

Yea you guys race road courses. I wish we did. Our car is the only one thats not rigged to only turn left in our class. We did really good too on the one road course we ran 2 years ago. Our car once beat our local Electrathon America runners that go to the national event on the nascar circuits every year. Plus road courses take skill so i get to show off my talent. :)

Aaron, great point about the radius test. Sadly, I dont even think our BSD Aerocoupe can pass the test...

Just to be sure that our cars all turn well I require all of our cars to have a 25 foot DIAMETER turning instead of radius and then they can turn very sharp at the road courses if needed and they have a better chance of dodging other cars that slide out. Mike

We have used adjustable steering locks in the past and that works very well. On longer and faster tracks we limited the turning abilities by setting the locks to restrict turning and opened them for short track use. Some others I know used adjustable steering ratios also.