ludhiana silent mesher a team of 20 students of guru nanak dev engineering college is ready to leave for indore to participate in sae baja2016 a national competition of designing and building an off road racing car the society of automotive engineers sae organizes the intercollege competition for budding engineers in indore every year as many as 395 teams of different engineering colleges participated in the virtual round of the event in july 2015 of these 152 were shortlisted for the main event the main event wherein students will participate in an offroad car racing will be held from february 16 to february 21 last year the team did not secure a place in the top slot because the car broke down during the race we dont want history to repeat itself so this year we built an automatic car instead of a manual one said team captain and btechproduction engineering student gurpreet singh elaborating on details of the car he said this time we emphasized on weight reduction that will stimulate the speed and power of vehicles for this we have imported major parts of the car from the us including shockers frame rim tyre and engine thus we managed to reduce 70 kg more weight than last year but the cost of the car also increased to rs 75 lakh the dynamic round to be held in indore comprises acceleration test break test hill climb round and endurance round winners will be declared on point basis in 2010 gndec students participated in the sae baja competition and won 14th position in india but their graph of achievement has constantly risen in 2011 they succeeded in attaining all india 9th position in 2012 they secured 7th position so far their biggest achievement has been to attain the second position in the world sae baja competition held at washington us in may 2013 in 2014 gndec secured the sixth position daanvir karan vicecaptain of the team and a student of btech production engineering said last year things did not work out and our team could not secure a good position but this time we are sure of winning even though these budding engineers are keen to exhibit their talent they dont get sponsors marketing head of the team roopak gupta said to ensure better performance we have to import a few parts that increases our budget in previous years cars were mostly built at a cost of rs 4 to rs 5 lakh but this year we needed almost double the amount although the team got rs 1 lakh from the college management and some sponsors like metalamn auto pvt ltd avon cycles and happy forgings among others it was not enough therefore they had to contribute from their own pocket by collecting rs 8000 to rs 10000 per student the team collected rs 2 lakh to invest