Early Adventures of 2019 and Indy!
Sorry for the lack of posts so far this year! As the team evolved and changed through the off season, so did the Mercedes – and once the racing season took off, the team has been challenged to find the … Read More
Vintage Super 8 Footage
We’ll let the film and narration from a 1952 Indy documentary speak for itself. Nick Shirrell of our team and Find Grain and Octane is the man behind it.
NCM Champcar recap
We have competed in our first endurance race of 2019! Although we’re still running the same red 89 Mercedes we’ve done a number of upgrades to the car. Some more subtle than others. For this running at the National Corvette … Read More
We’ve opened a store!
We’ve opened a sore on our site to sling our merchcedes (Mercedes Merchandise) and some of the proceeds even go to a good cause. We will donate $1 for every shirt we sell to local technical educational programs. Our first … Read More
Beers with Burnouts
From Chumps to Champs. We are ringing in the new year with an interview with our friend Dusty Michael, and creator of the podcast “the Burnouts”. Listen here for the story of our illustrious racing career in 2017 and 2018. … Read More
Our Build Part 2: Building A Cage
This is the second of a short series of posts covering the process of building our car, and cage. “That car is too nice to ruin!” We ignored everyone who said that to us. Even if it had 220,000 miles … Read More
Our Build Part 1: Buying A Car
This is the first of a short series of posts covering the process of building our car. The story starts in the winter of 2016, when we formed our team and set out to find a car. We knew we … Read More
Gingerman 2018 Recap
The Cookie Cutter Classic at Gingerman marks the end of our season with our best overall finishes yet with a 21st-22nd finish on Saturday ahead of our friends at Two Brother’s racing, in a 190E-16, and 28th place finish on … Read More
Our Car is Named Piglet
Welcome to our site and thank you for showing interest in our team and everything our supporters do For the Sake of Racing. We are a team of current and past Purdue students based out of the Lafayette, Indiana area. … Read More