Competitions
Cowboy Racing and SAE International
2024 and Cowboy Racing
Baja SAE California
Team Number - 24
21st overall
31st in Design
31st in Acceleration
23rd in Hill Climb
18th in Maneuverability
22nd in Endurance
Baja SAE Michigan
Team Number - 118
36th overall
46th in Design
38th in Acceleration
34th in Hill Climb
21st in Maneuverability
37th in Endurance
General Competition Information
A challenge for engineering students to design and build an off-road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain. Each team's goal is to design and build a prototype of an all-weather, rugged, single-seat, off-road recreational vehicle intended for sale to the nonprofessional weekend off-road enthusiast. These future engineers work together as a team in real world situations to discover and resolve technical challenges in design, test, manufacturing, and business issues. The most rugged of all the competitions, Baja SAE also gives students the first-hand experience of pursuing their passion while managing real-life demands and priorities.
2025 Competition Series
Cowboy Racing will be participating in the Maryland Competition on June 12-15, 2025. The team will also be looking to compete in South Carolina later in the year to round out their full competition series.
About the Baja SAE Series
Baja SAE® consists of competitions that simulate real-world engineering design projects and their related challenges. Engineering students are tasked to design and build an off- road vehicle that will survive the severe punishment of rough terrain. Each team's goal is to design and build a single-seat, all-terrain, sporting vehicle whose structure contains the driver. The vehicle is to be a prototype for a reliable, maintainable, ergonomic, and economic production vehicle which serves a recreational user market.
The objective of the competition is to provide SAE student members with a challenging project that involves the design, planning and manufacturing tasks found when introducing a new product to the consumer industrial market. Teams compete against one another to have their design accepted for manufacture by a fictitious firm. Students must function as a team to not only design, build, test, promote, and race a vehicle within the limits of the rules, but also to generate financial support for their project and manage their educational priorities.
All vehicles are powered by a 14hp Kohler Command Pro CH440 engine with a modified restrictor plate label for competition testing. Kohler and SAE International entered an agreement, Kohler will provide at discount engines to participating teams for the 2023 – 2026 competition seasons. Use of the same engine by all teams creates a more challenging engineering design test.