Oil patch bits: Lynden assists OSU engineering team with Formula race car

Petroleum News

As reported by Lynden News Nov. 4, earlier this year, Lynden received a request for transportation assistance for a race car built by the Global Formula Racing group at Oregon State University.

"This request aligned with our mission to support local communities where we do business, in this case the Pacific Northwest and OSU, and we also provided transportation and logistics expertise support with international freight service from the U.S. to Germany," says Stuart Nakayama, president of Lynden Logistics. Lynden coordinated the truck transport of the car from Corvallis, Oregon, to Seattle for the air portion of the journey from Seattle to Germany, where OSU's sister university is located. Lynden's Darina Sary and Makayla Valentine in Seattle, and Matthew Wetherbee in Portland, put the plan together.

Global Formula Racing is a partnership between Oregon State University and German university Duale Hochschule Baden-Wurttemberg Ravensburg. Each year the team designs and manufactures two high-performance electric formula style vehicles to compete in races in North America and Europe. More than 50 OSU seniors are completing their projects on the design and manufacturing of the car.

"Overcoming the distance between us presents its own set of challenges, but thanks to Lynden, logistics are no hurdle. Their seamless support with shipments keeps our collaboration thriving," says OSU student Devin Pham, captain of the Global Formula Racing team.