We left the pits and went on to do another 7 laps or so before our petrol tank mounting broke off and we had to return to the pits. This was a lengthy stop that took us 50 minutes to repair. We joined the race again. The marshals gave us a warning that our brake light was malfunctioning. We had to pit again to fix this. This took us another 30 minutes. After fixing this we swopped drivers and then in the final hour and twenty-five minutes we did a stunning 25 laps in that time, we had race pace similar to the leading cars. TUKS Baja placed 8th overall.

Overall Results

• Static Judging:
  University of Pretoria (Car 6 )
• Best Design Report:
  University of Pretoria (Car 6 )
• Best Performance:
  Tswane University of Technology (Car 16)
• Endurance Race:
  1st Tswane University of Technology (Car 2)
• 2nd
  Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Car 8)
• 3rd
  Central University of Technology (Car 4)
• Overall Winners:
  Tswane University of Technology (Car 2)

Announcements

TUKS Baja earns two 1st places at SAE BAJA South Africa

The 16th of October was D-day for TUKS Baja (car6). There was a field of 20 cars all ready for inspection. The morning started with technical, safety and rules compliance checks. This was followed with a successful static judging which TUKS Baja won.

The Car was confirmed to be ready for all dynamic events after static judging. There were numerous cars that weren’t allowed to compete in the dynamic events. TUKS Baja started with the acceleration, top speed and braking tests. We then started with the Hill Climbs, first the 40% incline then we progressed all the way to the maximum incline of 70% which we successfully climbed. We then set of to the handling test; we had a slow first run placing us last. The second run was 9 seconds faster which placed us 4th overall within 2 seconds behind the fastest car. TUKS Baja then went on to the last test of the day. The Cart pulling test, we struggled here only able to pull the cart 5 centimeters.

This was the end of the first day’s activities.

The 17th October, this was the day that everyone looked forward to over the year. From the initial 20 cars that entered the event only 14 were allowed to compete in the 4 hour endurance race. TUKS Baja started the race, unfortunately on lap 3 of the race we broke a driveshaft; the car was returned to the pits and then was fixed within 20 minutes.