Your gift funds this year’s Combustion, Electric, and Solar cars, develops the student engineers who build them, and gets all three teams to competition.
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Our goal is $174,000 by December 15, 2026. You can still donate below.
Opens PayPal. The Austin Motorsport Initiative (AMI) is a 501(c)(3) booster club that supports Longhorn Racing; gifts through AMI are tax-deductible and fund this campaign.
Our total is updated periodically, so recent gifts may take a little while to appear.
| Benefit | Base $1,000+ | Bronze $3,000+ | Silver $7,500+ | Gold $10,000+ | Platinum $25,000+ |
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| Workday lunch presentation | Not included | ||||
| General meeting presentation | Not included | Not included | |||
| Logo on competition vehicles | Name | Name | Small | Medium | Large |
| Exclusive promotional campaign | Not included | Not included | Not included | ||
| LHR networking social invite | Not included | Not included | Not included | Not included |
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In addition to all the benefits available to platinum partners, we encourage you to let us know how you would like to be honored. We will provide a VIP tour and invite you to be a Keynote Speaker at our annual Unveiling celebration, bring our vehicles to exclusive events, help us design future vehicle liveries, free LHR merchandise, and more!
Tiers are based on cumulative giving per season and apply to single gifts. Gifts through AMI and the Cockrell School of Engineering count; employer matching funds do not.
Gave through the Cockrell School? Email us so we can recognize your gift. Questions? Reach out to contact@longhornracing.org.
Longhorn Racing is UT Austin’s student-run engineering organization. Students design, build, test, and race their own vehicles at Formula SAE and the Formula Sun Grand Prix, gaining hands-on experience from CAD and manufacturing to testing and competition. This campaign keeps that work going and makes sure every team reaches the track.
Donate directly to Longhorn Racing through UT Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering. Gifts are tax-deductible and count toward recognition tiers.
On the UT giving form, go to “Click/Search for a fund,” search for “Longhorn Racing,” and select the team you’d like to support.
After giving, email contact@longhornracing.org so we can recognize your gift.
Give through UT Austin (opens in a new tab)If your employer matches gifts through Benevity, give to the Austin Motorsport Initiative there. Your own gift counts toward recognition tiers; the employer match does not.
You can also search Benevity for “Austin Motorsport Initiative.”
Open AMI on Benevity (opens in a new tab)
Founded in 1981, Longhorn Racing’s internal combustion team was an original founding member of the Formula SAE competition. The team builds a composites-based aerodynamics package, a fully welded titanium exhaust with a custom 3D-printed intake and fuel tank, and a lightweight frame with optimized ergonomic packaging.
Longhorn Racing Electric is UT Austin’s student-run Formula SAE Electric team. Each year, members design, manufacture, test, and race a new formula-style electric car from the ground up, including a custom high-voltage battery pack, power electronics, controls, telemetry, aerodynamics, chassis, suspension, and drivetrain.
Founded in 1988, Longhorn Racing Solar is one of the oldest student engineering teams on campus and one of the original ten teams to compete in the American Solar Challenge. The team designs and builds road-legal solar vehicles, from a custom electronics package and high-voltage battery to a carbon-fiber composite chassis and an aerodynamic body that houses the solar array.
