Rolls Report March 21 and 22: Early Raceday Qualification Readout

We have one more weekend before its Truck Weekend, folks! We’re seeing more and more teams qualifying their drivers. Meanwhile, we have some late additions to the field, with SAE showing up for their first weekend of rolls this year. This week, we also have another video report from Rob, available here. In the reports leading up to Raceday, we’ll now be Highlighting any buggies that are qualified to race! Carryover rules have changed, so please bear with us as we try to crunch the numbers correctly…

OrgSaturdaySunday
ApexMolotov, Solaris, Scorch, KeroseneHelios, Molotov, Solaris, Kerosene
CIAGoldfinch, Roadrunner, KingfisherStarling, Emperor
DGInsiteBanta, Insite
FringeBlind Faith, Blackbird, “🅱️ovanni”Blackbird, Bermuda, Baltic
RobobuggyNAND, Short CircuitNAND, Short Circuit
SAEBarbie
SDCParanoia, Lust, Vice
SigNuJaegerJaeger
SpiritKingpin, Seraph, Inviscid, ZukeKingpin, Seraph, Zuke

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Rolls Report March 14 and 15: New Buggies Debut

Welcome back from Spring Break, buggy fans! James here, filling in while Dan has escaped to warmer (and likely less gusty weather). Despite the strong winds here in Pittsburgh, it seems the course was spared from road hazards and we got 2 full days on the course.

We also got our first look at the new buggies debuting this year! Highlighted in the table below:

OrgSaturdaySunday
ApexSolaris, Scorch, KeroseneHelios, Molotov, Kerosene
CIAGoldfinch, Roadrunner, Kingfisher Goldfinch, Emperor, Roadrunner
DGBantaBanta, Insite
FringeBermuda, Blackbird, “🅱️orse”Blackbird, Bermuda
PiKARaptorRaptor
RobobuggyNAND, Short CircuitNAND, Short Circuit
SDCParanoia, Lust, ViceParanoia, Lust, Avarice
SigEpBarracuda
SigNuJaegerJaeger
SpiritInviscid, ZukeSeraph, Zuke

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Volunteers needed for Raceday!

Hello BAA members and buggy fans! Raceday is quickly approaching. As usual, we can’t do all our good work without your help. Though last year’s Raceday was a strange one, the shared effort of this community made it so much better than it could ever have been without. So, we ask you once again to volunteer your efforts. There are three main roles we need covered:

  1. People to staff the BAA tent, who will dispense schedules, spotters guides, and information to fans new and old
  2. People to help in the official timing booth, transcribing race times into our live-updating table as each race ends
  3. People to participate on-screen in the broadcast booth, alongside the illustrious Will Weiner, other familiar beloved characters, and maybe Connor too.

You’ll see in the sign-up sheets that you can volunteer to help on specific segments of the weekend, so you can stay free for any other times. The more volunteers we get, the less weight any one person has to carry, so please encourage your friends to sign up too!

You can sign up to help with timing or tent staffing at https://cmubuggy.org/volunteer.
If you want to commentate on the broadcast, use this link! https://cmubuggy.org/broadcast-volunteer.

We’ll see you at Raceday!