{"613158":{"#nid":"613158","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Wreck Racing Places Second in Grassroots Motorsports Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team of Georgia Tech students took home second place in a recent competition that had them build a car with a budget of $2,018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWreck Racing traveled to Gainesville, Florida, to compete in the annual Grassroots Motorsports competition, which is meant as a friendly challenge among collegiate car enthusiasts. Teams compete in three categories: autocross, drag racing, and concours.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWreck Racing\u0026rsquo;s 1987 BMW 5 Series placed second overall. The car has a custom-mounted LM7 5.3L V8 engine and also contains parts from GMC, Ford, and Chevrolet vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;The best part about the Grassroot Motorsports Challenge is variety of vehicles our team is able to engineer,\u0026quot; said Lawson Sumner, a mechanical engineering major and Wreck Racing president.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELast year\u0026#39;s car, an autocross-focused, mid-engine Honda Insight, placed first. This year, the team wanted to take on a new challenge by creating a drag-focused car.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026quot;We\u0026#39;re really excited about the results we had our first time out with it,\u0026quot; Sumner said. \u0026quot;Despite construction preventing the drag event this year, our E28 proved a competent autocross car and stole the show in the concours to give us a second-place overall result.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/2000challenge.com\/2000challenge\/\u0022\u003ELearn more about the competition\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe team\u0026#39;s 1987 BMW 5 Series placed second overall.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The team\u0027s 1987 BMW 5 Series placed second overall."}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2018-10-24 10:42:10","changed_gmt":"2018-10-25 13:21:10","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-24T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"613160":{"id":"613160","type":"image","title":"Wreck Racing 2018 Challenge Car","body":null,"created":"1540324038","gmt_created":"2018-10-23 19:47:18","changed":"1540324038","gmt_changed":"2018-10-23 19:47:18","alt":"Wreck Racing 2018 Challenge Car","file":{"fid":"233429","name":"IMG_0102.JPG","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_0102.JPG","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/IMG_0102.JPG","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":747496,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/IMG_0102.JPG?itok=87yXjzVV"}}},"media_ids":["613160"],"groups":[{"id":"1317","name":"News Briefs"},{"id":"1214","name":"News Room"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"170132","name":"racing"},{"id":"167058","name":"Student"},{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"1249","name":"vehicle"},{"id":"10927","name":"Wreck Racing"},{"id":"518","name":"cars"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71871","name":"Campus and Community"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:brice.zimmerman@comm.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EBrice Zimmerman\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute Communications\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}