San Jose State Racing team gets ready to roll

Members of the San Jose State University Society of Automotive Engineers team, sophomore Michael Jarrett, junior Adam Wigginton, 23, senior Ryan Sharp, senior Michael Favuzzi, 26, work on details as they and their team members prepare to defend their Formula SAE championship won last year. They were working on their entry in the team's workshop in the Engineering building at San Jose State University, San Jose, Calif., on Tuesday, April 26, 2016. (Josie Lepe/Bay Area News Group) ( Josie Lepe )SAN JOSE -- What was left of the Spartan Racing-8 chassis -- once a demon on the track, but now a zombiefied shell -- had no engine, and sat forlornly on a couple of purple office chairs in a garage on the San Jose State campus Sunday. The SR-8 was denuded of its scalloped diffusers and aerodynamic wing, and only three days before it was set to be shipped to Michigan for the team's biggest competition of the year, it was getting a complete overhaul.

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