{"id":203763,"date":"2015-05-26T12:48:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T12:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/?p=21041"},"modified":"2024-11-27T12:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T17:58:54","slug":"uconns-formula-sae-race-car-has-its-best-year-in-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2015\/05\/uconns-formula-sae-race-car-has-its-best-year-in-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn&#8217;s Formula SAE Race Car Has Its Best Year In Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the UConn Formula SAE Race Car and the team that competed against 120 teams from nine\u00a0countries at the Michigan International Speedway in Michigan last week. Always getting <a href=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fsae-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-21042 alignleft img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/d45h139.public.uconn.edu\/sites\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/fsae-photo-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"fsae photo\" width=\"394\" height=\"281\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 394px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 394\/281;\" \/><\/a>better, the UConn team finished 19th overall, surpassing the placement of last year&#8217;s team by one notch. And it was the\u00a014th fastest car in the grueling 20-lap final endurance event. This is the fifth year that the\u00a0Formula SAE team has\u00a0competed in the international competition. The team looks forward to building a new, improved car and raising the bar for the 2016 competition.<\/p>\n<p>Well done, UConn FSAE team, and congratulations to\u00a0advisor Thomas Mealy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UConn car competed against 120 teams from 9 countries at the Michigan International Speedway in Michigan last week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":222076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1866],"tags":[2502],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2110],"class_list":["post-203763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engr","tag-formula-cars"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 12:28:59","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222087,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203763\/revisions\/222087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/222076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203763"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=203763"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=203763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}