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What a busy and eventful time it has been since the last entry with and both good and unfortunately tragic reasons. Firstly on the 30^th March David Leslie and four other occupants were killed during a plane crash at Farnborough,. David Leslie was amongst other things a part time lecturer at Swansea Institute of Higher Education. As a previous student at Swansea Institute of Higher Education (now renamed Swansea Metropolitan University) I was fortunate enough to meet David on a couple of brief occasions, clearly those occasions will be my last.

But with death comes rebirth. On this occasion hundreds of unique student designed and built racecars are beginning to show their presence on test tracks frantically preparing for the FSAE event on the 13^th-16^th May. For any non American teams, the added headache of having to crate up and ship/fly the team’s car out to America in time for the competition. For the sole British team entering the competition Oxford Brookes University have to design, build, test and now crate up their car and send it across to America in time for the competition. As the photographic supplier for the Oxford Brookes Racing Team Paul Chapman Pictures will be present to capture all of the action from all of the teams during the four day competition.

Preparations are fully underway for Paul Chapman Pictures to leave with the Oxford Brookes Racing Team on the 11^th May and travel to America. Unlike most of the other European teams entering the American Formula SAE event, the Oxford Brookes Racing Team are competing with a brand new race car, which has been conceived, designed and built all by students in just 8 months. Prior to the team sending the racecar and all of their support equipment to America the brand new car was unveiled outside of the Oxford Brookes University School of Technology.