BANGALORE: Team Haya, the formula racing team of PES Institute of Technology won the ‘Skid Pad’ event in SUPRASAE 2011, held at the Madras Motor Sports Club, Chennai, defeating 44 other college teams from all over India.
The SUPRASAE INDIA 2011 is a competition which presents under graduate and post graduate Engineering students the task of designing, modelling and fabricating a formula type racing car which is evaluated on various parameters.
The concept behind the event is that a fictional manufacturing company has contacted a design team to develop a small Formula style race car.
The prototype is to be evaluated for its potential as a racing car.
The team: Francis Joseph, Sunil D S, Pushpak R, Murtaza Rangawala, Abhimanyu R, Varun K, Adarsh Kumar, Niranjan Arya and Pradyumna M. K.
Speaking about the win, CEO of PES Institutions Prof. D. Jawahar said “We are extremely happy about the achievement of our students. The win has re-enforced the aim of PES Institutions in moulding students into individuals who can take up any type of challenge in the competitive world.”
As part of the competition the teams have to participate in several individual events such as Static Events which include Design Evaluation, Cost Report, Marketing Presentation and Dynamic Events which include Technical Inspection, Skid Pad Test, Acceleration Test, Endurance etc.
The objective of the Skid-Pad event is to measure the car’s cornering ability on a flat surface while making a constant-radius turn. The driving path is a pair of concentric circles, the inner radius of 15.25m and outer circle of 21.25m in diameter. The car enters tangentially to the circles and does two laps in the clockwise direction and two laps in the anti clockwise direction. The team which can do this task in the shortest amount of time wins this event.
Team Haya was presented with a cheque of `50,000 for winning the event. The team was mentored by Faculty Advisors, Prof SS Patil and Prof V. Krishna of the Mechanical Engineering Department. The team was heavily supported by the Management of PESIT and the Principal Dr KN Balasubramanya Murthy, with the CEO of PES Institutions Prof. D. Jawahar taking personal interest in the project.