March 30, 1998

NC State's Wolfpack Legends Team to Participate in Racing Series

Dr. Fred DeJarnette (far right) is head of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Dr. Joe David (second from left) is the racing team adviser and an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

The North Carolina State University College of Engineering's Wolfpack Legends Racing Team will participate in the first points race of the 1998 intercollegiate Legends car racing series to be held Saturday, March 28, at the Charlotte Motor Speedway in Charlotte, NC. The team will compete against other collegiate teams, including Duke University, University of South Carolina, University of Tennessee and the University of Virginia.

The teams race Legends race cars, scale models of the 1934 Ford equipped with a Yamaha motorcycle engine, under the auspices of the National Collegiate Association for Racing (NCAR), an affiliation of ABET-accredited engineering colleges. NCAR was developed to enhance engineering educational programs through student design contests and participation in auto racing as drivers and crew members. The Legends cars are supplied to each of the competing universities by 600 Racing Inc. of Charlotte.

Each will have three drivers competing in heats on the speedway's one-fifth-mile track. NC State's drivers are Jeremy Bullins, a sophomore in mechanical engineering; Mark Etheridge, a graduate student in mechanical engineering; and Jason Holshauser, a senior in mechanical engineering. Dr. Joseph David, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, is the faculty adviser.

The Wolfpack team showed promise in practice session competitions held February 7 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Bullins won his practice heat and later placed fifth out of a field of 20 in an INEX-sanctioned Legends race held at the speedway on the same day.

The Wolfpack team continues to seek support from the community to help defray the costs of racing. For more information about the team contact David at (919) 515-5298.

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