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How Planning Now Can Have You on Track Later | Articles

How Planning Now Can Have You on Track Later | Articles

Story and Photography by Carl Heideman and Jack Heideman

We’ve all heard it before: It takes a village.

This is a story like so many others. It starts with a few guys sitting around late at night, bench racing the what-ifs and how-tos of going fast with little time and limited funds. A barely achievable goal is set, a tight timeline is decided upon, and a build begins. Friends and onlookers start to help, and the project gains momentum.

This particular village centers around Jack and Jarrett, college students who are part of a Formula SAE team. One night, soon after competing at FSAE Lincoln, they started contemplating a fun summer project with a few of their teammates.

Formula SAE has given this team–split between fans of sports cars and fans of muscle cars–a new appreciation for autocross. As their bench racing bounced from what to do with this Miata or that Mustang, they decided they wanted to try a national-level event on a shoestring.

Then…

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