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About the SCC

Georgia Tech’s Student Competition Center is home to eight student-led engineering competition teams, with
several of these teams specializing in automotive creations that compete in competitions locally and around the
country. Using the extensive machining, computer aided design, and fabrication resources available at the SCC
each team and hundreds of students design, build, and validate their innovative engineering projects.

WRECK RACING GT OFFROAD

About Wreck Racing About Georgia Tech Off-Road
Founded in 2003, Wreck Racing is a 60+ member Georgia Tech Off-Road (GTOR) is the official Baja
all-student racing team. Wreck Racing builds cars for SAE Competition team of the Georgia Institute of
the annual Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge. Technology. The team is a multidisciplinary group of 8
With a tight budget, the $2000 Challenge favors GT students, representing 10 majors across 4 colleges,
those with more ingenuity and skill than money. As striving to overcome an array of challenges presented
many as 70 different teams return each year to battle by a real-world design scenario. Baja SAE challenges
it out and see who can squeeze the most performance students to work as a team to design, build, test, and Teams
from a few pennies. Wreck Racing uses this unique compete with an all-terrain, single seat vehicle that
racing challenge to teach students the skills of serves as a prototype for the recreational vehicle
fabrication, machining, computer-aided design, vehicle market. Each competition emulates environments
engineering, and the field of motorsports within the that present related engineering problems designed
scope of a constrained budget. to stimulate unique and creative solutions. Complex
task management is the unwritten formula for success, 600+
accomplished through careful planning, continuous
Our BMW E28 5-Series communication, and endless research. Design
For the 2019 $2000 Challenge Wreck Racing prepared and analysis, in conjunction with public relations Active
a highly modified 1986 BMW E28 5 Series that has and marketing, make for an unmatched learning
been re-engineered to house a turbocharged 5.3L experience. Students
GM LS V8, 3-link solid axle rear suspension, and
customized Macpherson strut front suspension with
a host of other modifications. Wreck Racing’s BMW Our Current Activity
E28 placed 3rd overall in the 2019 $2000 Challenge For the past 20 years, GTOR has brought a steady
and won first place in the Concours portion of the stream of innovative ideas to the SAE Baja competition. 17
event. Other past Wreck Racing Challenge vehicles In the 2019 season, the team placed 18th of 108 teams
have included a 1984 VW GTI, a 1985 BMW 325e, a at both the Baja Tennessee and Baja California
supercharged 1UZ V8 1992 Mazda Miata, a turbo 2JZ competitions. Following an 8th place finish at the
1969 MG Midget, and a mid-engined 2001 Honda recent Midnight Mayhem competition, Georgia Tech Years
Insight. Off-Road fully expects the 2020 Baja competitions
to fully cement its name as one of the most respected
in the Baja SAE space. Georgia Tech Off-Road’s 2019
represented historic finishes for the team in the form
of two top 20 finishes. Aggressive design goals and
timelines for the 2020 season have left no room for
complacency and should help the team reach consistent
top 10 finishes. The 2020 vehicle, OR-5 Momentum,
will include the team’s first electronically controlled
continuously variable transmission and anti-roll bar. In
combination with a downsized frame and new coil over
shocks, the car will be lighter and more agile than ever.

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