Indianapolis Super Mileage Challenge on April 27, 2009

[Tango Charlie]

The Super Mileage Challenge is an event for High School kids sponsored by the Indiana Mathmatics, Science, and Technology Education Alliance (whew, that's a mouthful).

IMSTEA

The company I work for is supporting our local High School team, and there's a small, outside chance that I might get to go. I don't know how spectator-friendly the event is, as I have never been to one. O'Reilly Raceway Park is a nice facility, though.

[Matt Herring]

Cool event Tango! If you get to go to the event post a recap...and get some pics!

[Tango Charlie]

Oh, heck ya. You bet yer sweet bippy.

I really really wanna go!

[Ryland]

I used to enter events like this when I was younger, my best was 245mpg, it was alot of fun and pretty amazing what you can build on a budget.

[Tango Charlie]

Judging from what I've seen, it's a pretty small budget! I think they're getting over 1000 mpg's now days. And that's with carburetors! Hopefully our EFI will give our local team a boost.

And, it's confirmed! I'm going! Yah!

Stay tuned for pictures! You know how I love pictures!
(And speaking of Vibe mods, I've got one in the works... *tease tease* )

[Tango Charlie]

When we got there (around 10 am), our local team (Wawasee High) had just rolled back from the staging area for an attempted run. Their steering had broke. We watched as they cobbled up a fix...



...and got the top shell back on...





Notice the driver's Simpson driving shoes.






Staging up in the pits, preparing for a run.


In action!

[Tango Charlie]

Some of the other contestants;


Curves? We don't need no stinking curves!







Ya just gotta love how they stayed faithful to the teardrop on this one!

[Tango Charlie]

Congratulations to our Wawasee High School team for turning in 926 mpg! That's not too bad, considering that it's the first year where we outfitted them with an EFI system that was pretty much untried in this application.
Their carbon fiber shell is pretty slick, garnering them the Craftsmanship award. I think they can improve on it, though.

[Unforgiven]

Nice!! Sad that I missed that, along with everything else I seem to miss nowadays... lol