If you’ve been paying attention, you know that Pittsburgh weather didn’t play kindly this year. Due to rain, most of the 2025 races were not able to be held on Carnival weekend, and for the first time since 1981, we had a “Bonus” Raceday the following weekend. Most of you reading this probably weren’t able to get to Pittsburgh to watch it though, so all you’ve seen of the Men’s and Women’s races were the results themselves, and maybe a little bit of video (along with audio) from the live stream.
Until now.
What you may not have realized is that while we weren’t live streaming it, we had 12 different cameras, plus a drone, filming the races from every angle. And now that we’ve had a chance to put it all together, we’ve released it into the world. All Raceday 2025 heats, including the 29 Heats from Bonus Raceday Saturday and Sunday, are now available on the cmubuggy YouTube channel. Go and watch (or rewatch) as the current students persevered and put together a tremendous 2 extra days of racing, featuring all of the excitement, including a couple of new angles that we haven’t really had before – and for the first time ever, in 4K!
Oh, and don’t stop there – the All Gender and Exhibition heats from Friday are up as well, along with the bonus awards ceremony for the Men’s and Women’s races.
And remember, if you’re a graduating senior, you can sign up to become a member of the BAA for free here.
HUGE shoutout to all of the students, faculty, alumni, and others who volunteered to help out and make Bonus Raceday a massive success. But in particular, a special shoutout to Tom Felmley, David Yang, Shannon Lee, Onyx Mayer, Nate Miller, Chloe Lin, Logan Watanabe, Aarya Batchu, Dillon Lareau, Chris Goode, Wade Gordon, Matt Gallabrese, Clarise Liu, and Raghu Venkatesh for operating the cameras over the weekend, Cassidy and the WRCT team for handling the audio on the course, and Sophie Halpern, Connor Hayes, Nate Klein, and Will Weiner for coming out to do the commentary and providing us with the only real eyes or ears that we had on the buggies in real time.