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Discuss “More than just a day at the races”

Floating the taco. Superman steering. Bagging the course. King and Queen of the Hill.

This weekend, those words floated over the heads of Carnegie Mellon students, Pittsburgh locals, and out-of-town alumni at the 2007 Sweepstakes competition. After a season of poor weather, Buggy participants finally had plenty of sun and warm temperatures for race days. The crowd scattered across Flagstaff Hill and the intersection of Tech and Frew Streets, now able to catch the action on all five hills on television monitors. But as the unfamiliar terms and intense team support show, Buggy is more than a Saturday morning outing. Buggy involves a committee of dedicated chairs, budgets of thousands of dollars, sponsors, dozens of pages of rules, and intense...

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