This is where CMT designs the amazing race cars...

This is a small portion of our workshop, the design office is just partitioned separate from the workshop area.









and from this comes.....




Impressed yet...?

see the office team website

http://motorsport.curtin.edu.au/

Designs are underway

We are really starting to pick up the pace with designs now and we just thought we'd share a humorous picture from our design office.




Hopefully we will have some solid models to share in coming weeks.

Curtin Motorsport Team - Interview with team members jan 2010

Small video that gives an insight into the team from a few of our members.

Also has some in-car footage.

CMT Karaoke

Way back in February, after the team launch, the CMT gang went down to the Waterford Tavern for a little team building.


To celebrate a successful night and to give the guys a little bit of fun and let their hair down we decided to do some karaoke.


The team had just been really busy preparing the race car for the CAMS Festival of Motorsport for the 14th and then our 2010 team launch on the 17th so it was a well deserved laugh for the team.

The tavern wasn't very busy and the way we were singing that was not such a bad thing. We gave it our best and definitely had lots of enthusiasm but lacked a little bit of talent.

We will definitely be sure we still to engineering and leave the signing to the professionals but it was a good fun night and we look forward to having a similar night out to welcome in all our new members this year.

Just another reminder that we are not 100% serious all the time, even engineers need to hang loose occasionally.

CMT 'Stimulates' Frederick Irwin Anglican School

CMT today attended Frederick Irwin Anglican School in Mandurah to help Curtin Marketing give an insight into whats is available to students who decide to further their education at Curtin University of Technology.



Nathan Staats (Project Manager) and Errol Hassett (Exposure Manager)took down the teams new driving simulator, also know as our 'Stimulator'.

As some of our readers might know from team newsletters, the 'Stimulator' was created from our 2006 race car, we have made some small modifications to install a computer with steering wheel and sound system.




We generally use the 'Stimulator' as a bit of fun and it is proving to be a great marketing tool and talking point for the team. It promotes discussion on the race cars in general and the changing designs as the competition and our team evolve as the years go by. Most people find it a tight squeeze to get in and out of the 'Stimulator' but it is a realistic representation of the old race car designs because it is one of our old race cars.









We enjoyed the day, we always jump at the opportunity to talk about the team with people because we have such a passion for what we do. Hopefully the students walked away with a better understanding of what is available for them at Curtin University and are inspired to enter into engineering and hopefully even Curtin Motorsport Team.

We look forward to the next chance to share our passion for motorsport and the team.

CMT in the Community News - FEB 2010

Curtin Motorsport Team Steps Into Top Gear

The following is extracted from the artilce published on the Community News Groups website on the 23/Feb/2010

" The Curtin Motorsport Team showed off its student-designed and built racing cars from the past two years at its recent 2010 launch.

The cars were the centrepiece of the evening, during which team members gave presentations about their experiences and where the team was headed this year.

Curtin’s head of mechanical engineering Professor Tony Lucey spoke about the team’s history in front of about 50 sponsors and suppliers from the automotive, manufacturing and engineering industries.

Guests also got to inspect the team’s 2008 and 2009 race cars and speak to the student design engineers and fabrication team.

Team project manager Nathan Staats said having a team set-up helped mechanical and mechatronic engineering students learn by hands-on projects designing and building the cars.

The team’s major focus is competing in the international Formula Society of Automotive Engineers Australasia competition in December, where entrants’ cars are judged on static inspection and engineering design, solo performance trials and high performance track endurance. "

CMT on Facebook

CMT has been on facebook for some time now but we thought we'd share the love.

CMT on Facebook

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CMT Apparel at Cafepress

Collie Supersprint

CMT just came back from Collie after competing in the Super Sprint event at the Collie Motorplex Feb 28th. This was round 3 of the 2010 LF Performance Speed Event Series www.speedeventseries.com of which CMT is attempting to compete in as many rounds as possible this year in Class 1A - Outright under 2000cc Open Cars.

The event was run by Motoring South West www.motoringsouthwest.org.au/ The team headed down Saturday afternoon after preparing our race car. We arrived late afternoon and had a chance to mingle with some of the competitors, staying over night at the track.

Sunday started with high hopes to get out on the track. After a small warm up of the engine and a double check that the car was ready to go, we had some problems with the plugs being fouled by too much fuel.

With a quick swap of plugs during the drivers briefing, the car got out on the track for the practice with Errol Hassett behind the wheel. The car wasn't quite getting full throttle so the practice didn't go as well as hoped.

The sprint event sees multiple cars run at the same time and with our car running the competition compliant 20mm air intake restrictor, we knew we would have to keep a watch out for some of the fastest cars, as there were a bunch of GTR Skylines and even a supercharged Hayabusa open wheeler. To try and stay out of their way, we pulled the rear view mirror out of Errol's Magna wagon and fixed it to the side pod of our race car, so that we could keep a look out.

A few changes were made after practice to give the car full throttle and Micheal Holland, one of our university technicians, jumped in and set out to make an impression on the eager on-lookers. We looked good out on the track, rounding up a Mini and setting a 55 second lap time before the engine blew up due to oil starvation. (Supersprint course lap record is 46.3494 seconds)2009 Lap Records Collie Supersprint

We have always battled with this problem, as we still run a modified wet sump, and we have experimented with baffling and gates in the sump to try and limit the problem, but at the high speeds seen on the track we really had no hope of finishing a full sprint.

We will get the engine out and try to re-build it for use in the 2008 race car as a driver training and race day prep tool.

We have just received two new Honda 600 RR engines so we now hope to move into development of these into our new designs for the 2010 and 2011 race cars.

Also don't forget to see the official CMT website Curtin Motorsport Team Official Site