Addressing Safety Issues Ahead of Eco-marathon

We are now officially into the single digits of days until the Shell Eco-marathon Americas competition in Houston, Texas! For the past three days we have continued to work very hard on our vehicles and are seeing some great changes as a result.

A lot of body work has been done on HotRod over the last few days. It seems as if when we think that we have filled in all of the small holes, we find a few more that need to be filled. We continue to prepare the vehicle for paint, which will be happening this weekend. As for the paint job, our team has decided on a paint scheme that is inspired by classic Hot Rod vehicles from

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