Course Happenings<\/strong><\/p>\nOn Saturday, there was apparently a Cement truck that found it’s way onto the course causing the already slow day to become even slower. We also got a glimpse a the new trial EMS vehicle being tested out with the chute patrons. Sunday saw some issues with the phipps drivers that apparently didn’t remember how we have worked together in the past. After being allowed through the barricade, one truck decided it wanted to use the far entrance instead of the side driveway and was quickly stopped and reverse before the buggy coming down the hill could see it. Later a car managed to weasel their way through the panther hollow barricade only to zip around and enter in the side driveway of phipps instead of using the normal, much shorter cut over the Schenley bridge.<\/p>\n
REMEMBER\u00a0<\/strong> Please help us next week and email news@cmubuggy.org if you can contribute to next week’s rolls report! Every little bit helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This weekend was a monster, so much happened that this if this comes out around the usual time it will be a miracle. BUT, before I can get into the craziness that was this weekend I have one thing that I need to mention first. Next weekend I will be indisposed with another event down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9537,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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This weekend was a monster, so much happened that this if this comes out around the usual time it will be a miracle. BUT, before I can get into the craziness that was this weekend I have one thing that I need to mention first. Next weekend I will be indisposed with another event down south at CalU. I need will need help writing next weekend’s rolls report, so if you have wanted to contribute, or have ever thought about getting some notes in this’ll be your best chance to do so. Please email news@cmubuggy.org if you’re interested in helping and I’ll get you the info you need.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-23\/i-LMjJ6Zr\/0\/24b0417b\/Th\/DSC06138-Th.jpg\")
Apex<\/strong> – As the first org to get a new buggy out this year, Apex is ahead of the curve on getting Ember, their new buggy driven by Palak Pujara, qualified for raceday. Because of the one week lead on other new buggies, they were able to avoid some of the issues that plagued many other orgs on Saturday. From what I can see everything has been rolling smoothly for the young org even at speed. Hopefully those GoPros will help them figure out their ideal line and make for a very competitive raceday.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-23\/i-MThZjQz\/0\/edbbb09c\/Th\/DSC06108-Th.jpg\")
AEPi<\/strong> – Making their debut to the course this semester, AEPi is sticking to their guns of only rolling on sunday, last semester Kamikaze was primarily driven by Erica Green, so this semester they’re starting off with Jennifer Shin to even out the roll counts. With only two possible weekends remaining, it’ll be near impossible for them to get both drivers qualified on Sundays alone.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-22\/i-6ddSgRB\/0\/5aa6279a\/Th\/DSC05984-Th.jpg\")
CIA<\/strong> – Releasing their new buggy Icarus, driven by Amy Hung, to the world on Saturday CIA was just the tip of the iceberg of new buggies to roll that day. With large wheels as the back of a forward trike and a funky shell, similar to Apex’s Ember, it certainly seems like an experiment gone awry, but not necessarily in a bad way. The large wheels in back don’t seem to be the intended design as the nose seems to be diving perpetually into the ground. Antics aside, on her first roll, Amy in Icarus managed to pass a very slow, possibly stopped, \u00a0Ascension in the chute. On Sunday, CIA had what looked to be a pass test where Freyja’s Rachel Karp passed Orca’s Ting Wang, but then didn’t have enough and passed Amy Hung in Icarus. Once under pusher power, ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-22\/i-xSZQkgn\/0\/99f87f23\/Th\/DSC05978-Th.jpg\")
Fringe\u00a0<\/strong>– With possibly the most bizzare new buggy, Fringe showed up with a 4 wheel buggy, but not in the retro style that you might be thinking. NBXIV looks the same as every other Fringe buggy on the surface, until you get the the rear wheels. That is not a typo and I did not use photoshop, NBXIV has two inline rear wheels. The claim is apparently functional, but after crashing on her first roll on Saturday, we couldn’t get a good idea of what function that might be. Not letting that get to her, Gillian Rosen came back out on Sunday to get her first complete rolls and start that march towards qualification. Banyan, driven by Shaheen Essabhoy, only came out on Sunday, but seemed to have a mechanical issue just after the chute and didn’t roll the rest of the day.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-22\/i-7JfK44v\/0\/7b29ebca\/Th\/DSC06041-Th.jpg\")
PiKA<\/strong> – During drops, Chimera apparently had an issue where her rear wheel dislodged from it’s mount and popped up into the buggy. The brothers of PiKA managed to get it back together to roll that day, but that could be a scary issue come raceday. On Saturday, Yisu Wang driving Banshee attempted a pass test on Chimera, but the gap was too large for her to overcome causing them to pass in the chute in a near miss. Yisu’s driving was enough to avoid collision with Wendy Du in Chimera, but not enough to avoid the bales that she diverted towards. Yisu managed to hit softly enough to continue her roll up the backhills. Yisu managed to get her pass in on Sunday as she barrelled down the hill in Banshee past a very slow, Wendy-driven Chimera. On a later roll Wendy was rolling so slowly that she needed a couple pushes to finish out the course.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-22\/i-5zMJR6K\/0\/3adfc6bd\/Th\/photo%201.jpg\")
SAE<\/strong> – Making out both days this weekend was apparently not in the cards for SAE. On Saturday they came out ready to go, but before they could push off, their pushbar had enough and detached completely leaving driver Eileen Wu with the most aerodynamic and unpushable buggy to ever touch the course. Sophia Kim came out on Sunday driving Rubicon to get some rolls in the cold weather. She managed to steer clear of the potholes and cones that now litter the course, but she has some speed to gain if she’s planning on being competitive.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-23\/i-4F3kQ8b\/0\/5a1002ec\/Th\/DSC06129-Th.jpg\")
SDC<\/strong> – As one of only two orgs at this point with any drivers qualified, SDC might be the only org that might actually be prepared for Raceday. Jing Xiao in Vice made a strange stop on Saturday right around the transition flagger. She was extracted on the course and Vivian Wong, who had made a clean stop behind her in Psychosis, was pushed through. Things got much more violent on Sunday where Rachel Chow had an issue in Malice where the inside fairing came loose and spun around turning the wheel into a ski. This caused her to spin around hitting the inside bales and skid backwards until the fairing popped back around to make the ski into a wheel again. Rachel was allowed to continue rolling later in the day without her fairing. Jing in Vice was doing just the opposite of stopping or crashing on Sunday as she made the turns into and out of the chute. On entry, she was making a sharp turn at the chute flag causing her to drift significantly nearly hitting a pothole-marking cone. Once in the chute, she made the hard turn to straighten out causing a second drift on all of the hay, gravel, and dust that lines the sides of the chute. One such roll had her slide so close to the bales that everyone thought she had crashed until she continued to roll up to the hill 3 pusher.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-22\/i-s7BRcRZ\/0\/a42a34df\/Th\/DSC06024-Th.jpg\")
SigEp<\/strong> – Not technically with a new buggy, SigEp re-debuted Kraken to the course on Saturday with Sushma Narayan at the helm and a very slow couple of rolls. So slow that she needed a couple pushes her first time down. She didn’t make it out on Sunday where Krystina Williams took over in Barracuda to get the average speed up a couple notches. Pandora also made it out on Sunday with Madeline Finn and Emily Helfer trading off rolls, neither up to any considerable speed just yet.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-23\/i-4bRhHcx\/0\/56a0d229\/Th\/DSC06144-Th.jpg\")
SigNu<\/strong> – Returning to the course again this weekend, SigNu is surprisingly nearly qualified unlike many other teams. Maybe less surprising since they only have a single buggy\/driver combo. Even though they only have the one combo, Avia Weinstein in Krait is doing some amazing things on the course. Aside from Malice and Banshee, Krait might be the next fastest buggy on the course right now and is getting some equally fantastic roll-outs. This could be the kind of resurgence that SigNu needs to get them back in the action after falling apart a few years ago.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2013-2014\/Spring-Rolls-March-22\/i-wNWSqv6\/0\/5a58603c3\/Th\/DSC06027-Th.jpg\")
Spirit<\/strong> – Also out with a new buggy this year, Spirit is the only other org with qualified drivers after this weekend. Their new buggy is Zenith, driven by Sussy Romoleroux who formerly drove in Fuko and who hit the course this semester for the first time this weekend. After Zuke, Zenith might be the easiest buggy to recognize of the Spirit fleet with a cut off tail. Aside from the tail, there is no difference until you get to the steering which now boasts an enormous shock spring right in front of the driver’s face. Zenith is definitely not the first buggy to employ some form of shocks, but maybe it’ll be the first to keep them around. Sussy managed to get a few extra rolls in this weekend with Apex since spirit kindly flagged for nearly every org in the weekend prior. Unfortunately, Alyssa Casamento didn’t have as nice of a time when something dislodged her steering around the transition flag causing her to make a hard right. Grinding and dragging could be heard from the chute as she continued her turn until she hit the inside curb before the monument. She was extracted and carried off the course, but managed to return on Sunday in an attempt to make up for Saturday’s failure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n