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"         Formula SAE, the collegiate design series that challenges students from schools around the world to build small race cars, has become so popular that it has become two U.S. events. In addition to the usual and often rainy-cold Detroit, now comes a sunny Southern California location. The number of competing teams is limited to 130 in Michigan and 80 in California.   We&amp;#039;ve been covering this event every year since 2001 because we support the thousands of students who undertake the immense challenge of building their own cars. With more than 200 teams competing each year, it is impossible to give each team and car the respect it deserves. Instead, we invite the five best-performing teams to compete in our Road &amp;amp;amp; Track Triathlon. This Triathlon is a test of a car&amp;#039;s driveability and performance in 0\u201360\u20130 mph, slalom and skidpad tests. The results can be viewed in nearby charts.   When comparing the 0\u201360 acceleration, 60\u20130 braking and the skidpad numbers to those in our Road Test Summary, it becomes very clear that the Formula SAE cars are seriously capable. As they should be with such custom trickery as carbon-fiber monocoque chassis, supercharged single-cylinder engines, customized fuel injection, turbocharging applications, race tires and pushbutton paddle shifters. A run-of-the-mill entry at an FSAE event is still going to provide performance that competes with a 125-cc shifter kart, which Formula 1 drivers use as practice in the off season. Aside from building potent cars, Formula SAE produces better drivers.   We like this event because it will affect the future generations of automotive engineers. The experience these guys and gals get in FSAE will make for better cars, ones we will likely drive.   Our applause this year goes to Cornell University and Texas A&amp;amp;amp;M University. Cornell won in Michigan, while Texas A&amp;amp;amp;M won the inaugural California event. This is the third trophy for Texas A&amp;amp;amp;M. To honor that success, we retired the Road &amp;amp;amp; Track Trophy to them. Honorable mention goes to the University of Kansas, which didn&amp;#039;t win but managed to compete in both our East and West Coast events. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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