Motor Sports Team Holds First Auto Show
By Alex Berkman Stony Brook Motor Sports Team held its first fundraiser auto show in the faculty parking lot near the main entrance to the university on April 29. The team held the event to raise funds for competitions involving the off-road vehicles made by the team. The events will be held in South Dakota and the Rochester Institute of Technology this year, according to Jessica Newman, director of marketing for the club. The team finished in forty-fourth place at last year’s competition, according to Charles Gelarden, a team member who helped run the event. “We’re an underdog team,” he said of the competition, because other schools give their programs more funding. Gelarden said the event creates interaction between students and the local community. He said many of the cars and attendants at the event were from off campus. The cause is “very worthy,” said show car owner Professor Robert D. Cess, from the Marine Sciences Research Center. Brian Medlin, another car owner at the event, said better weather might have helped turnout. The team is in the process of building another off-road vehicle for competition. Businesses such as Salsa Salsa in Port Jefferson and Blue Point Tool and Supply have sponsored the team, as well as the mechanical engineering department. The university has been a great help, but the club is “under funded and under paid,” said Gelarden about raising money for traveling and competitions. |
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