Formula SAE

Yeah, there should be...

If there was that much draw and demand for... being on teams, like, you know, I, in college, I was on a team that built Formula SAE cars that, you know, competed against other colleges.

And so that was a team.

And I know there's like robot, you know, there's like Lego leagues and there's various robot programs and FIRST Robotics in schools.

So, all right, let's throw in here a real quick racing analogy.

We'll throw back to our FSAE days.

So if we think about what it means to win as a race car, as a race car team, if you were going to win a whole season or a whole year's competition, that's going to be You're going to need an approach that's got super consistent short-term goals and progress for each race or each test in order to win the full thing, right?

Right.

And we built race cars, about the most fun thing I could possibly imagine doing for college.

We were on the Formula SAE team.

We designed and built cars every single year.

We would design them in the fall, start engineering and machining things through the wintertime and building parts, machining parts, welding the chassis together, whatever it might be.

I think it has had to be.

I have learned this year like a sponge, having come from the business side of a Formula SAE team, not a technical side.

I have learned so much about how the car actually works from the top job, which is wild.

Every person who's come before me in my job has come from a technical role.

I think the biggest thing is there's too many people who just like to play copycat.

And I come from a world where I did Formula SAE, which is on my shirt.

But it's something I learned from there, which is like too many people copy what they see without fully understanding why.

So when I do a little bit of consulting, especially with the elements, a common question is, oh, there's a 47.5 with or a 67 with, which one should I get? Let's just assume for the sake of this argument that we don't have rules to worry about.

Yeah, to the limits of the rig, yes.

So we've even tested Formula SAE cars for university students, which are obviously quite small.

But we can measure those on the rig as well.

Yeah.