UMICH-ANN ARBOR TEAM TAKES HOME BAJA SEASON'S IRON TEAM AWARD

Cornell University also had a strong 2014 season, but not strong enough to fend off Michigan Baja Racing.

COMING INTO THE FINAL EVENT of the 2015 Baja SAE season with a team mentality of “fast don't lie,” the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor raced to victory at Baja SAE Oregon MAY 27-30 and in the process captured the 2015 Mike Schmidt Memorial Iron Team Award for the highest normalized point total across all three Baja SAE events.

“We knew that it was going to be a very close battle with Cornell University after it had scored higher than us in the second competition [Baja SAE Maryland, May 7-10],” said Michigan Baja Racing team captain Jason Willig, a junior mechanical engineering major. “So we prepared ourselves for the Presentation events and made sure we had sufficient driver practice and training for the courses we anticipated seeing, especially the Rock Crawl.”