Robobuggy –\u00a0<\/strong>Sneaking in a few pre-sunrise rolls, the Robobuggy crew was out again gathering more data and working on their freeroll. The group has been using the same frame and shell buggy for the last several years and it sounds like they’re finally working on an upgrade to their fleet. We’re hoping for a clear Carnival this year so that these guys finally get a chance to show off what they’ve been working on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nA new org was sighted on the course Saturday morning as the brothers of\u00a0PhiDelt plan on starting up a team of their own. As a new frat on campus, the manpower needs for Greek Sing were too strong forcing them to delay their start to another weekend. These guys already have a buggy to roll with as they have apparently found KDR’s old Perun. Assuming they can manage their driver’s many commitments, they have every intention to roll for Raceday.<\/p>\n
Having gotten a chance to see them up close, the condition of the roads did not look nearly as bad as it was described to us. This is of course only in comparison to their condition at the end of last year, which is still quite terrible. Amazingly, the city did manage some fills just before the weekend that were actually done very well. There is word that the road will not get paved before Carnival, and at this point we\u00a0don’t think they can afford to lose a weekend, even if it meant clean new roads. We’re still crossing our fingers for a summer paving since a deal was agreed to last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Finally able to kick off the year, all teams were out on Saturday for the first Day of Spring rolls. After weeks and weeks of cold and icy roads, the weather finally cooperated long enough for Saturday. For some reason there were no permits for Sunday, so even though the weather was nice enough, teams […]<\/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-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rolls-reports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","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=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9676,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/9676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmubuggy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Finally able to kick off the year, all teams were out on Saturday for the first Day of Spring rolls. After weeks and weeks of cold and icy roads, the weather finally cooperated long enough for Saturday. For some reason there were no permits for Sunday, so even though the weather was nice enough, teams were forced to sleep in and\/or stay warm. As it happened, this Saturday was also Greek Sing which made it even more impressive to see the teams (including the frats) in mostly full force. Clearly the teams understand what needs to get done in this extremely short lead-up to Raceday.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-FZm2Gk3\/0\/fb01b610\/Th\/DSC05993-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
AEPi –<\/strong>\u00a0With 2 drivers in a single buggy, AEPi opted to roll their veteran first. Whether this decision was greek sing related is unknown, but it is likely a good move to guarantee at least one driver. At this point, their veteran only needs a couple rolls and a pass test to qualify which should give them the rest of the days to focus on their new driver, assuming they still plan on trying to race her as well.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-v7Ws3ff\/0\/d840b714\/Th\/DSC05981-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
Apex –\u00a0<\/strong>In a great turn of events for the now-Senior org, Apex made it out with a second buggy on Saturday allowing them to double their ability to try and qualify their 5 drivers. It’ll still be an uphill battle though with only one veteran driver. They looked good through the chute all morning despite the craggy road.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-r9hnG5q\/0\/74ab2114\/Th\/DSC06008-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
CIA – <\/strong>As one of three orgs with a new buggy on the course, CIA debuted Eqiunox to the world with the same style shell as Icarus. We assume this is an attempt to make improvements on their last build so hopefully we’ll get a good comparison as they speed up to Raceday. The org also managed a few firsts for the season marking the first incident with a driver stopping just after hill 2 with helmet blocked vision and also obtaining the first and only pass test of the day for Ascension as she passed Icarus.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-FWS4QTR\/0\/7254a11c\/Th\/DSC06013-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
Fringe<\/strong> –\u00a0<\/strong>Prepped and ready with a new buggy of their own, Firnge showed off their radical 9 wheeled buggy X1 nicknamed milibuggy (thanks Glenn) by those of us in the Chute. The new buggy rolled fine in a straight line, but noticeably lost speed through the turn. Word is she feels great to push though. Aside from the new buggy, their new Beacon driver got a chute walk-through after nearly stopping by Panther Hollow Bridge. She was heavily bagged, but she definitely seemed to have lost some knowledge over the break as she made some very wide and unpredictable turns through the chute.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-FpQcgd7\/0\/5c43da21\/Th\/DSC06016-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
PiKA –\u00a0<\/strong>Out with only a single buggy, PiKA did some quick work getting\u00a0Banshee up to speed. While we expect them to qualify at least one driver for raceday, this is no time for an entire\u00a0team of non-veteran drivers to be staying home. With so little time to qualify new drivers, we could be looking at a slower team this year.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-wZNDbZq\/0\/5b355963\/Th\/DSC05979-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
SAE<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/b>Ending last season with only two rolls, we were very excited to see \u00a0SAE bring\u00a0Lucy back out to the course. Thankfully they have a veteran driver behind the wheel, so if they are able to sustain these last few weekends of rolls, they should have no problem getting qualified. Unfortuantely, it seems something has gone wrong with Lucy’s front wheels as they sat at about 45 degrees while she came up the backhills. We’re not sure if this is pot-hole related damage, but it looks like she could use some serious help to get those wheels back upright.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-fxPgxsG\/0\/5c2b916a\/Th\/DSC06019-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
SDC –\u00a0<\/strong>Back as the defending champs and\u00a0team-to-beat, SDC was able to be one of the first orgs to show off their impressive veteran rollout, even atop the cratered surface. Their newer drivers seemed to have a bit of a tougher time though as\u00a0Vice was having some trouble figuring out the chute and\u00a0ending the day in the bales. After making the turn into the chute, she seemed unable to stop turning and at a fairly low-speed burried herself in the inside bales. No injuries were reported.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-Z53rhZr\/0\/033afbde\/Th\/DSC05989-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
SigEp –\u00a0<\/strong>While most teams have a good number of new drivers, SigEp has a nearly full team of veteran drivers, a trait that is\u00a0only beaten by Spirit. This only made it more surprising when Kraken managed a mid-morning spin just past Westinghouse pond. The roll before, Kraken looked very hard to push as she clickety-clacked her way up the backhills, followed by a very apologetic follow-car driver.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-47X8Nqx\/0\/38dc6ee4\/Th\/DSC06005-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
SigNu<\/strong>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong>Having only made it out a few times last season, we are excited to SigNu back on the course. Also with a full team of new drivers, it will be tight trying to fit in all the rolls they need after their lack of participation last semester. Krait rolled quite well over the morning taking an extremely tight line through the chute. With a history of rolling over through the turn, it was good she went slowly through the turn. We hope to see them smooth this line out a bit before we make it to Raceday.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/2014-2015\/Spring-Rolls-March-21\/i-w66WwdT\/0\/52895373\/Th\/DSC05973-March%2021%2C%202015-Backup-Th.jpg\")
Spirit –\u00a0<\/strong>Joining CIA and Fringe, Spirit also unveiled their new buggy wrapped in brown paper like it’s ready to be shipped. The new buggy looks like\u00a0their previous builds though this time sticking with the flat tail. As we have come to expect, their buggies are all stripped down awaiting their new Raceday paint jobs. We just hope they get them soon so that we have some time to re-learn them again.<\/li>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/photos\/i-4gcJbhz\/0\/ebd95d9f\/Th\/i-4gcJbhz.jpg\")
<\/a>Robobuggy –\u00a0<\/strong>Sneaking in a few pre-sunrise rolls, the Robobuggy crew was out again gathering more data and working on their freeroll. The group has been using the same frame and shell buggy for the last several years and it sounds like they’re finally working on an upgrade to their fleet. We’re hoping for a clear Carnival this year so that these guys finally get a chance to show off what they’ve been working on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n