Daniel Campos Zamora

Spirit Racing Systems

Composite vehicles for human and gravity powered race

Photo showing a missile-shaped small vehicle with a windshield. A person wearing a helmet is inside laying prone controlling a steering mechanism.
Two missile-shaped vehicles racing down a street as a crowd stands behind them.
A missle-shaped vehicle painted to look like a world-war 2 fighter plane on a street.
Year
2011-2015
Type
Not Research
Collaborators
Spirit Racing Systems

Sweepstakes is a longstanding Carnegie Mellon tradition, a relay race where the baton is replaced by an aerodynamic composite vehicle with a driver inside. The race has a downhill portion where the “buggies” can reach speeds upwards of 35mph, and a sharp turn before starting an uphill climb to the finish line. As a part of the spirit racing systems, I was the head mechanic and chairman overseeing the development and construction of the latest two vehicles of the teams fleet.