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July 28, 2015 - Kim Delker / Mechanical Engineering
From the UNM Newsroom:
"For the University of New Mexico's LOBOMotorSports team, it's been a sweet few years. The team did well at the Formula SAE competitions, and seemed to do better each year. In 2014, the team placed 11th overall. In 2013, they took 12th place, and the team recorded a 10th-place finish in 2012.
But at this year's Formula SAE competition in Lincoln, Neb., the team placed 33 overall out of 80 international entries, lower than their performance in recent years.
John Russell, director of UNM’s Formula SAE program and Halliburton Professor of Mechanical Engineering, said the team’s overall finish was not what they were hoping for, but it’s all part of the up-and-down nature of racing."