Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 37

FEATURES

Written and photographed by Alex Carrillo and Joseph Zinter

HOW A DEDICATED TEAM OF STUDENTS BUILT A WORLD-CLASS RACE CAR AGAINST ALL ODDS.

Each year, dozens of collegiate teams flock to the New Hampshire Motor Speedway to compete in the International SAE Formula Hybrid Competition, a grueling four-day event where students race formula-style gas/electric hybrid race cars that they've designed and built.

REWIND: It’s April 29, 2011, two days before the competition. The Yale University team, Bulldogs Racing (BDR), is at an off-campus site ...