 The thrill of speed and the rush of adrenaline. These are just a few of the things that draw students to Berkeley Formula Racing. This is not your average student organization. It's a community of dedicated and passionate individuals who share a love of motorsports. My name is Henry Morse. I joined Berkeley Formula Racing in my freshman year, which was fall 2019. I am the lead driver here and I have been on our business subsystem as well the whole time. I also involve myself as much as I can in our electronics and driver interface design. Obviously that matters a lot to me as a driver and it doesn't matter how good of a race car you make. If the driver doesn't feel comfortable using and interacting with it, then it won't work. So try and optimize that the best I can. My name is Hugo. I'm a third year mechanical engineering student and I am on the chassis subsystem and I'm also assistant technical director for the team. I've always loved cars. I mean my family's into cars. I've been working on cars since I was probably 13. I was great with my hands, so, you know, mech-y. And when I found out about this club, the fact that we build a race car, you know, ourselves, that was it for me. Like I knew I had to be a part of it. But it's not just about building the perfect machine. It's also about developing the skills needed to succeed in a highly competitive environment. Members of Berkeley Formula Racing learn to work as a team, collaborate with others, and manage sophisticated projects under tight deadlines. So this is our dyno setup. This is essentially where we take our KTM 450 and tune it in a more controlled environment. This was something that we built ourselves in-house. So that water break we sourced. However, everything around it, pretty much from the ground up, was built by us. We're looking to implement a new load control system that's automatic. And yeah, this is our tuning software. We run a custom ECU. And this is pretty much how we get things dialed in for more power. So the team is organized in a way that every member is on a subsystem. And that subsystem is responsible for certain aspects of the car. So for example, the aerodynamics team is responsible for designing and manufacturing the wings and side pods of the car. And the drivetrain team is generally responsible for everything that matches. So every one of those subsystems has a lead or two that is responsible for ensuring that the design is appropriate for feeding together everything else on the car, as well as making sure everything is on time to actually fit on our first car on the ground. However, despite their hard work and talent, the team is facing a major obstacle, a lack of funding from the university. We're starting to lock horns a lot more often, which kind of sucks, because the school doesn't give us any money. And we pay rent for our space, even though this field station is technically on campus. So we don't necessarily feel that's right. And we're trying to talk to the right people about it. But we don't seem to know who those people are and they don't like telling us who they are. And recently, some insurance things came up with our vehicles, and they took our vehicles from us. And so we don't have a truck to tow this trailer. We don't have our Ford Focus that was kindly donated to us by Ford a couple of years ago, because something with the insurance meant that we can't drive it. So they're trying to figure out who to put the insurance under. And until such time as they can do that, no one's allowed to drive it. And we've been feverishly reaching out to them, to the lead center and the ASUC, trying to coordinate something, but they're like, oh, okay, we'll figure it out in a few weeks. And we're like, we don't have a few weeks. We're testing this car this weekend. We have competition in the middle of May. We don't have time for this. So that's probably the biggest battle that we're having with the university right now. We pay about $9,000 a year in rent for this facility here, where we get two inches of standing water when it rains. We've got floors in the bathrooms. So the university doesn't help us out as much as they could, considering that Formula SAE is the nation's premier mechanical engineering competition, and that most other high-level universities completely subsidize their Formula teams, and they travel them around the country for events, and they do whatever they can because they want their university to look good at the nation's premier mechanical engineering competition. I feel like that makes pretty logical basic sense. So, yeah, it's been challenging to get the university as on board as we would like, but we do what we can. We always wear our gear when we're out, and we've been doing a damn good job. Reporting for CalTV News, I'm Aston Yeh.