Roboclub<\/strong> – Sticking to the twilight hours, Robobuggy has bounced back after their pusher incident a couple weeks ago and managed to get a couple more solid rolls under their belt this weekend. They’re still doing everything via a remote control from the follow car, but hopefully with all this data they should be able to figure out the autonomous stuff when spring rolls around. After a few years of planning to roll on raceday and then getting called off, it would be really neat to see them finally show off their hard work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\nCourse happenings<\/b><\/p>\n
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This weekend teams had to deal with more than spinning buggies. The city seemed to be working on tracking traffic patterns and speeds with long cables that straddled the road. There were two sets, one was just after the hill 2 push off and didn’t clear the entire road so most teams were able to avoid it. The second set was just before the stop sign and had no way to be avoided. \u00a0To make things a little easier, a large mat was laid over the cables, but we’re sure that every driver still felt each bump.<\/p>\n
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What teams might not have noticed was the car that slammed into the barricade across the Schenley bridge, knocking it over. The Cop managed to stop the car before it had any chance of moving on to the second barricade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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After a few weeks of smooth, calm rolls, taking the midsemester weekend off seemed to undo all of that with several spins and \u00a0some scary crashes. On top of that a truck made it onto the course and an ambulance was called for the second time this year. Teams are moving faster and apparently drivers are still working on keeping their control through the chute in some cases, and in others drivers continue to race through or spin out while stopping for flags when they’re thrown. There are 4 potential weekends left for teams to make their move, but after a weekend like this, we are looking to see who returns and who might not.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-26\/i-M5r5N6K\/0\/89c84082\/Th\/DSC03617-Th.jpg\")
AEPi<\/b> – While most other teams seem to be working on improvement and continuing to raise the stakes, AEPi is quietly staying the course and keeping everything constant. While they don’t have the largest team out there, it’s a little surprising that they continue to coast on their one-day-a-weekend strategy. Could it be that there are some issues within the house that are preventing them from growing their team? Maybe they don’t see the benefit of rolling in the fall and are just going through the motions until spring. Hopefully we’ll see something more from the team that only a few years ago nearly broke into the top 10.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-26\/i-QFv5H8M\/0\/1aa94ff3\/Th\/DSC03596-Th.jpg\")
CIA<\/strong> –\u00a0Keeping it consistent, CIA continues to roll smoothly and quite speedily on their new wheels. We still have yet to see any other buggy use the neon green wheels aside from Ascension, so hopefully they give some other drivers the chance to see what better wheels feel like, or maybe they’ll shell out the bucks and get another set. Oddly enough, even at this point a few drivers are still using bags, sometimes far more than would be reasonable. We’re not really sure what to think about this unless they had some kind of driver swap going on and need to train a new one at this point in the season.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-26\/i-9snXTMz\/0\/059703c5\/Th\/DSC03629-Th.jpg\")
Fringe\u00a0<\/strong>– Though they often roll with a smaller team of people, consistency is no stranger to Fringe this year either. This weekend we got to see Beacon return to the course with some interesting new fairings. It looks like they’re finally choosing to finish the buggy a year. And even though all Fringe buggies roll consistently well, their hill 3 pushers are still getting smoked and losing their pickup. The only thing that seems to still need work from a driving stand point is Bolt’s hard, jagged turn into the chute. While it hasn’t caused any spin-out or crashes, it’s definitely not helping them retain any speed through the turn.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-26\/i-xFckR4m\/0\/3087925f\/Th\/DSC03618-Th.jpg\")
PiKA<\/strong>\u00a0– Now that Banshee has been out on the course\u00a0regularly, PiKA is looking more like what they have in the past and are rolling well, though probably not quite as well as they could. Since she was late to the course, it seems only fair to expect that the new driver is still coming to grips with the course and will likely roll better as the season moves on.\u00a0With many of the other teams having their own issues, the consistency that they are showing is more noticeable than it would normally be.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-25\/i-D6MNQh8\/0\/2f1f03e0\/Th\/DSC03561-Th.jpg\")
SDC<\/strong> – This weekend was almost a repeat of last raceday for SDC, though not quite as catastrophic. Malice managed to avoid crashing both days, but she’s been skirting very close to the bales with every sliding turn. Vice managed to spin-out both days, but only managed to hit the bales once. On her first roll on Sunday, she managed to avoid the bales much like spirit has done in the past and was allowed to roll the rest of the day without issue, but Saturday she made a hard spin into the bales and managed to lose some kind of tape-covered, foam wedge and similarly sized rubber mat that likely went under it. We’re not really sure what it was used for, but the pieces were claimed by the radio club member and given back to the team who hadn’t noticed they went missing. Rage also managed to spin into the bales on Saturday leaving only malice left by the end of the morning.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-25\/i-h6bpTCF\/0\/a03797e1\/Th\/DSC03575-Th.jpg\")
SigEp<\/strong> – While SigEp didn’t have any chute spins, they had the unfortunate situation of having a truck skirting the cones into Phipps and rolling right up at them on the course. The flaggers managed to have the truck park behind the monument before the buggies got close, but stop flags were still thrown and buggies forced to stop. Pandora was in front and managed to stop up against the curb after getting the chute stop flag. Barracuda for some reason was given the go flag for the transition letting her keep all speed into the stop flag before the chute. As we’ve seen many times before from this team, the driver slammed on her brakes and immediately lost control spinning around and sliding hard into the curb. Unexpectedly, SigNu was rolling with them for their last roll and anyone who ran to attend to the stopped buggies had to quickly move out of the way to avoid getting hit.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-25\/i-Kv8Bkh9\/0\/cb4e02a0\/Th\/DSC03577-Th.jpg\")
SigNu<\/strong> – Managing to avoid a crash, SigNu still gave a lot of people a fright as Bungarus Krait barreled through all stop flags right after SigEp had stopped just in front of them. She managed to make it through the chute and the pushers none-the-wiser continued to push her right up the hill, though to be fair, it wouldn’t really make sense for them to have done anything else at that point. While the driver managed to get through the chute without issue, ignoring a stop flag with two stopped buggies in front of her is a serious issue and could have caused a horrible incident in any other situation.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-26\/i-SrbHgXX\/0\/d9dc9fcc\/Th\/DSC03652-Th.jpg\")
Spirit<\/strong> – After their early issues this year, Spirit had been rolling decently well with only a small slide here and there. Sunday saw that all change as rolls were halted halfway through after a terrifying incident from Kingpin 2. To those of us in the chute, it was eerily similar to Fuko’s crash a couple years ago into the street light after riding up the pedestrian ramp. Kingpin’s crash was much more mysterious though as she seemed to just launch up the curb right into one the concrete stairs and railings that lead from the sidewalk to the curb. As she hit the railing, her hatch was flung to the side and she was thrown forward in her buggy. Her harness seemingly did little to prevent her forward motion and from what we could see she nearly came out of the buggy.\u00a0![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Fall-Rolls-Oct-26\/i-w7wHQZt\/0\/6fc13975\/Th\/DSC03581-Th.jpg\")
Roboclub<\/strong> – Sticking to the twilight hours, Robobuggy has bounced back after their pusher incident a couple weeks ago and managed to get a couple more solid rolls under their belt this weekend. They’re still doing everything via a remote control from the follow car, but hopefully with all this data they should be able to figure out the autonomous stuff when spring rolls around. After a few years of planning to roll on raceday and then getting called off, it would be really neat to see them finally show off their hard work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n