Sponsorships
What does a sponsor get? A sponsor of the Union College Baja SAE club gets their company
logo displayed on our competition car, also our sponsors are shown on our website and on the back of our Baja t-shirts. Also included is a thank-you package sent at the end of the year because each sponsor is crucial to our team’s success. What are the terms? The length of the sponsorship can be one to two years. Our sponsor tiers are shown in a photo below.
What is Baja SAE? Baja SAE is a college-level competition where students design and build a
single-seat off-road racecar. The Baja car competes in multiple events, straight-line
acceleration braking, and suspension. Also, a maneuverability course is a time trial course
with time penalties for exiting the course or hitting cones. Also, there is a hill climb event to
show off your car’s torque and driver technique. Finally, there is an endurance race that lasts
four hours, and we try to set as many laps as possible. Another aspect of competition is the
business presentation, we compete by presenting our club as a company and trying to sell
the judges on our engineering designs and the reasoning behind our designs with analytical
data backing our choices.
This past spring, our team competed with 107 other schools at the competition held in Williamsport, PA, placing 25th in the Hill Climb and 40th in the endurance race. This past month we went to a mini-Baja competition called OktoBajafest hosted by Clarkson University.
During the endurance race, we got 6th place and set a new record of 49 laps completed in four hours. 17 colleges were competing with three cars allowed per team and we placed 9th
overall.
Each sponsorship means a great deal to the team. If you have any questions or are
interested in contributing to the team’s development, please feel free to reach out; I would
be happy to discuss further details at baja@union.edu. Thank you for your time and consideration,
Francesco Soccoli
Union College Baja SAE Co-President