Matador Motorsports

Who We Are

We are Matador Motorsports, CSUN's Formula SAE team, we design, build, and race a single seater formula-style race car against 100+ universities from around the world since 1988. Formula SAE is a collegiate design series created to prepare students for future employment as engineers. Here at CSUN, it is a capstone project for Mechanical Engineering majors. Students act as an engineering company designing, fabricating, testing, and competing a prototype vehicle. This in-depth and hands-on educational program develops the knowledge, creativity, and problem-solving abilities of engineering students by enabling them to draw upon their years of education to answer a complex, real-world design and manufacturing challenge. We attract the most hardworking, motivated, and results-oriented engineering students produced by CSUN. This is all thanks to donations from people like you, that we are able to build our car every year.

We competed at Michigan International Speedway against 120 other schools in May 2023. Our team placed 15th overall! Matador Motorsports has performed competitively throughout its history: 5th place overall in 2021, 7th in 2007 and 2017, and 6th in the 2018 Design Competition. Matador Motorsports is filled with passionate and driven individuals, all with the goal of making it to competition. We would not be able to do this project without the support of our friends, family, alumni, and dear sponsors. Our achievements in this year's competition have laid a strong foundation for our team to continue being successful. 

Where Your Donations Will Go

Our goal of $30,000 will help us complete our car, we broke it down to show where your money will go. 

Chassis Manufacturing

To manufacture our chassis precisely we need precisely cut tubes and jigs to weld. A strong, lightweight, and rigid chassis is the starting point of a successful race car!

Parts Manufacturing

We utilize our HAAS CNC machines to create a majority of our parts in house! With your contributions, we will be able to buy the needed stock to continue manufacturing our precise parts for our race car.

The resources necessary to design, manufacture, tune, and train to be competitive are immense. We hope to partner with you in this endeavor, as your investment will contribute to maintaining an educational program of the highest quality. Additionally, this program is run through the CSUN Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, making any and all cash or in-kind sponsorships charitable donations. With this in mind, we humbly ask your consideration of the sponsorship opportunities. If you would like to discuss a custom sponsorship arrangement, please do not hesitate to reach out as we would be excited to discuss any possibility.

For contributions through check, 

Please make checks payable to

“California State University, Northridge Foundation” or “CSUN Foundation”

Please note in the memo to designate this gift to:

“Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) Vehicle Fund – Formula (A7311)”

Checks should be sent to:

California State University, Northridge Foundation

18111 Nordhoff Avenue – University Hall 110

Northridge, CA 91330-8296

If you reside outside of the United States, and you would like to support our project, please donate using this link: 

https://engage.csun.edu/formula_sae_intl 

Without the continuous support of our community and alumni, this program wouldn't have been able to continuously produce highly sought after engineers for over 30 years. Thank you sincerely for your time and consideration.

For any questions or concerns, reach out to us at csun.sae@my.csun.edu. Check our website at https://www.ecs.csun.edu/sae/ and follow us on Instagram @csunfsae.