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Thank you for visiting our website! Pacific Motorsports is a student-run engineering club that designs and builds an open-wheeled formula-style race car to compete in the Formula SAE competition. Our goal is to strengthen the engineering skills of students by exposing them to real-life engineering problems not presented in the classroom. Students involved with the club gain highly valued design and manufacturing experience, using CAD software and our on-campus machine shop. Students outside of engineering learn how the engineering industry operates and can gain skills in marketing and business by raising funds and managing the finances that the engineers use to manufacture the race car. Pacific Motorsports is open to all who are interested in learning about engineering design, engineering marketing, and running an engineering business!
The 2024 team (minus Matthew) posing for a photo on the track of the Michigan International Speedway.
Our club was founded in 2020 with the creation of the first prototype vehicle used by the team to pave the way for future competition vehicles. Pacific Motorsports attended the 2024 Formula SAE Michigan competition for the second time ever in May 2024! With a small team of five hands-on students, we made it to competition and passed the rigorous technical inspection and got to race in the 22 km endurance race!
Our goal is to compete in the 2025 Formula SAE competition with a completely new vehicle aimed at increasing our intentionality and producing a well-built, clean FSAE race car that will deliver good feedback at the Design Presentation at this year’s competition!
The 2024 team (minus Matthew) posing for a photo on the track of the Michigan International Speedway.
2025 Competition Goals
Our organization’s success would not be possible without the support of the community. All donations, big and small, are a tremendous help in getting us to the competition and we are thankful for your generosity and support! See the chart below on how your gift can be an investment in our work.
The 2024 team (minus Matthew) after the endurance race on Day 4
Fundraising Wishlist for the 2025 FSAE CAR (P25) *
*Ongoing needs to help sustain and grow this project in FY25 and beyond.
Pacific Motorsports working tirelessly in the rain to make it through technical inspection on Day 2.
Alumni Matthew Kimrey observing the structural inspection, the first stop of the tech inspection process.