UMD team’s snowmobile sweeps competition

brainerd dispatch ^ | 4-8-14 | Alysee Shelton

[TurboZamboni]

DULUTH — In a competition to create a cleaner-running, quieter snowmobile, the team from the University of Minnesota Duluth reduced friction and turned heads to dominate the competition when it came to style and functionality at the 2014 Society of Automotive Engineers Clean Snowmobile Challenge.

The club walked away with the BASF Corporation Award for Innovation for the first time, as it competed against 13 to 16 schools from around the United States and Canada last month.

[Durus]

It’s a real bummer that global warming is going to make this innovation worthless. /s

[IronJack]

That's because in Duluth, the only time you put your snowmobile in the garage is when you need to change the oil.

In the Frozen North, they KNOW snowmobiles!

[houeto]

as it competed against 13 to 16 schools

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