Powercat Motorsports is Kansas State’s Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Formula Race team. Formula SAE is the world’s largest and most prestigious design competition with over 20 international competitions and over 700 active teams. Powercat Motorsports is proud to have represented K-State in this competition every year since 1997. The premise of this design series is to design, manufacture, test race, and present a fully functional, open wheel, open cockpit racecar. While housed in the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department, the entirety of the work is completed by students from across campus. Powercat Motorsports has a proud tradition of hard work, dedicated ethics, and pushing the limits in design. This can be recognized as the team features advanced technologies that compare to professional race teams. Major features of the car include a full carbon fiber monocoque chassis, full aerodynamics package, custom CNC parts, custom dry-sump oil system, pneumatic paddle shifting, wireless data acquisition, and a custom wiring harness with concentric twisting. Bengal was built during the 2022-23 school year. It placed 14th at the FSAE Michigan competition in Brooklyn, Michigan against a field of around 120 teams. ​On loan from Powercat Motorsports, Kansas State University.