Our Crowdfunding Groups
Our team has been hard at work every single day since the 2024 competition ended to design, plan, and manufacture our brand new 2025 car. Thousands of hours have been put into the car each year by our student members out of pure love for automotive engineering. Your support will help us finance completion of the car as well as help us transport the team and the car to the May 2025 competition in Brooklyn, Michigan. Read more for more information about our club, what we do, and most importantly: why we do what we do.
Sun Devil Motorsports is Arizona State University’s competing team for the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Collegiate Design Series Formula SAE Competition. Sun Devil Motorsports consists of students of various engineering and business backgrounds, boasting the largest roster of any ASU engineering team. We develop and manufacture a fully operational race-car in-house to race in the annual Formula SAE competition, this year hosted in Brooklyn, Michigan. Through the development and competition of the car, students are developing their technical engineering skills and teamwork professionally while being challenged to perform outside the classroom to produce outstanding results. The team exists for one sole reason: to build the best engineers and business personnel out of ASU.
Here is a picture of the team at the 2024 Michigan Formula SAE competition alongside the 2024 race-car (codename SDM-24):
What is Formula SAE?
SAE stands for Society of Automotive Engineers; it is a global society made up of automotive engineers from various companies, all with the purpose of creating a better future for the automotive industry. SAE is a highly accredited society, setting up standards and regulations that we have today in automotive. One of the collegiate design competitions that SAE offers is Formula SAE, where universities compete against each other in designing, building and driving a racecar from the ground up to compete for a hypothetical contract to mass produce their prototype. Essentially, the cars are judged based on their designs, business plans, and dynamic performance.
Here is a picture of our car at the 2019 competition parked next to cars from other universities:
The year is 1992, and ASU comes into the Michigan Formula SAE competition with the most impressive contender. Boasting technology that was just introduced in professional top tier racing series such as Formula 1, ASU's car was state of the art. It won four awards: Best Use of Composites, Best Engineering Design, Best M85 Fuel Economy, Best Prototype Fabrication.
Here is the 1992 ASU car competing at Michigan:
Fast forward 20 years later, a group of engineering students found the car collecting dust. This developed the idea of reincarnating the club into what it is today.
Here is the car found in storage:
In the 2024 Formula SAE competition, ASU achieved an impressive 34th place overall out of 119 teams, with a total score of 470.2. This marks a significant milestone as it is the first time in six years that the team successfully completed every single event without issue. Our team excelled in various categories, earning scores of 77.3 in Cost, 27.6 in Presentation, 100 in Design, 64.1 in Acceleration, 43.7 in Skid Pad, 52.8 in Autocross, 75.1 in Endurance, and 29.6 in Efficiency. Despite being relatively underfunded compared to many other teams, our dedication and hard work have driven us to achieve these remarkable results. Your support can help us continue to improve and compete at even higher levels in the future.
We are here now as a team with the goal of continuing ASU's legacy of creating state of the art cars, creating history for the future of ASU. The most advanced Formula SAE car yet coming out of ASU is currently in production, continuing the ultimate goal of creating history for ASU. Please consider partnering with us as we take this next step to build the future engineers of ASU.
Below are all of the expenses for us to go to the FSAE competition in May, we need all the help we can get! We at Sun Devil Motorsports are so passionate about our team and car and we need your help so that we can afford to show off what all our hard work goes to! Big or small, your donation means all the world to us and we so greatly appreciate it!
This amount will allow you to display your family's name on the SDM 25 car.
This amount corresponds to our low-level sponsorship tier. If willing to donate this amount, you qualify for the following perks! - small sticker on car - logo on website - receive team updates and announcements
A donation of $1,917 represents the distance mile-for-mile that the team must travel to reach competition at the Michigan International Speedway. Qualifies for Perks of Silver Level Sponsorship
This amount corresponds to our high-level sponsorship tier. If willing to donate this amount, you qualify for the following perks! In addition to Silver perks: - (L) logo on car - (M) logo on trackside shirts - Option to have car at promotional events - access to thank-you events
This amount corresponds to our top-level sponsorship tier. If willing to donate this amount, you qualify for the following perks! In addition to Gold perks: - (XL) logo on car, with preferred placement - (L) logo on trackside shirts - Tagged in all social media - exclusive membership thank-you event
