| Perrysburg firm has role in race car |
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| Written by JORDAN CRAVENS Sentinel Staff Writer | ||
| Wednesday, 09 May 2012 10:44 | ||
Students from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, S.D., showed the race car to employees, media and other attendees in between their Formula SAE design competition at Michigan International Speedway this week. The racing team and the Perrysburg business partnered following an e-mail sent last year by a racing team member. "They said, 'Hey, we are out here in South Dakota and we are building a car. Can you help us out,'" said IMCO Vice President and Technical Director, Matt Osburn. "I said what do you need," Osburn said. "They said we'll take anything." From there, Osburn gathered some tools and shipped them across the country. "I thought, well, that's probably the end of that we will never hear from them again," Osburn said. But, he did. Osburn later set a second assortment of tools to the student team. "Matt here sends me everything we need and this is what we get," said Evan Hoglund, a racing team member who just graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering, pointing to the race car. Anything metal on the car, the students said, was built using IMCO tools. The race car has a top speed of 72 mph and can go from 0 to 60 mph in four seconds. It runs on E-85. The cost to build the race car, including donations and travel was about $120,000. When factoring in labor, the cost is closer to $1 million. "I believe the manufacturing base is what built this country," Osburn said. "And these guys are going to go into manufacturing and they are young and going to be the problem solvers. "Making things. That is what this country needs and that is what these guys are doing. So, I was more than happy to support that," he said. And, Osburn said, who doesn't want to be involved with a race car? IMCO, which serves the aircraft, automobile and general machining industries, also provided technical support to the students and instructed them on how to use the tools. "It looks like they have built an awesome race car," Osburn said. At the competition at MIS, the Hardrocker Racing Team from South Dakota will be competing against 120 teams from all over the world. The team has fared well in the past at the competition, placing third in the autocross event in 2011 and second in the skid pad event in 2010. |
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