Project: Build a formula racecar
Product used: igubal

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Cornell University’s Formula SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) racecar team won its fourth world championship in five years at the 2005 competition, adding to the eight first-place trophies the team has already secured since entering the competition in 1987. The team raced its student-designed and student-fabricated vehicle at the Pontiac Silverdome in Mich. last May.

While working on the steering system, the team began searching for durable, lightweight and easy-to-replace bearings. The students chose igubal® plastic bearings from igus®, which are self-lubricating and maintenance-free. The donated spherical bearings were used to compensate for alignment errors and to enable close tolerances with certain steering components.

Evgeni Khasbury, a Cornell Fomula SAE team member, said, “The igus spherical bearings were durable and easy to maintain, making them a very appealing product.”

At the competition, Cornell scored 906 points out of a possible 1,000, finishing 38 points above its closest competitor. To learn more about the Cornell University Formula SAE team, go to fsae.mae.cornell.edu.