Due to the anticipated inclement weather, the decision has been made that we will not proceed with Sunday races.
As you all know, this does unfortunately mean that the Men’s and Women’s heats will not be racing this weekend. Instead, these heats will be scheduled to race next weekend (4/12 and 4/13) during the usual rolls timeslot (prior to 9 AM). Due to time constraints, the heat schedule and race format may be modified, with details forthcoming.
We know that this is extremely frustrating for everyone, but we’d like to remind everyone that it’s times like these where the community aspect of Buggy is most important. We’d like to commend the students for their composure and poise through these unprecedented times, and we encourage everyone to do the same.
With Men’s and Women’s heats scheduled for next week, we are also in dire need of volunteers to help make Bonus Raceday 2025 happen! If you plan to be in the Pittsburgh area next weekend, please take the time to give us a hand—although it sounds cheesy, it’s the truth that we will not be able to run the rest of these heats without help from you all.
A huge thank-you for all the alumni, students, and buggy fans who turned out this weekend! Although this was not the Raceday we would’ve liked to share with everyone, we look forward to seeing the rest of those exciting races next weekend!
Dexter Murphy says:
With the actual world reputation of Carnegie Mellon the following is a proposed “solve the issue” action group problem solve desired to be umdertaken:
Explore how to remove water molecules from cold asphalt surfaces in a timely manner. Present this problem to the entire
CMU Community to research develop and implement on the part of the winning selection. White papers required. Solutions could be to the order of 1. “provide fifty (50) Stihl high velocity leaf blowers via a community of home owners ‘on call if it rains’. 2. Explore a heat generating super blower device and or plural devices to evap H2O
sample conceptual design element: heat ejection horizontal wand should be the width of the 2 lanes possibly wider to dry out adjacencies
This suggested problem resultant from April 2025 buggy sweepstakes washout. CMU has enough in-house campus and alumni talent to dissect this evap issue and short of a huge rainstorm engineer the water removal off the course in a timely manner. Just think of all the time and effort wasted [due to wet asphalt] in everything from UHAUL truck rental expenses, out of town alumni attending for naught at a considerable expense (myself from Mystic Connecticut) only to view a very limited sweepstakes late morning start on Friday. A solution to the asphalt rain water is possible. The evap of water molecules can certainly without question be accelerated. The question becomes how best. The excellent student brainpower with group colloboration can “and will” solve this issue. Create a competition as buggy has become. Thank you.
Dexter Murphy PE Alumni Class of 1973