Manipal institute of technology - (MIT) in the picturesque Western Ghat town of Manipal in south coastal Karnataka, is the home of Team Manipal Racing or TMR as it is popularly known all over the university town.

TMR was formed in August 2008 by a group of vehicle enthusiast MIT students. The area of interest of TMR is an all terrain vehicle (ATV) design and off road racing, something which exemplifies the youthful spirit of taking risks and challenges and the thrill to walk the untrodden path.

The idea was to build a team of senior and junior students who would specialize in designing SAE and other international competition level all terrain vehicles. A team which can manage on its own a complete ATV design projects and self finance them, to start a legacy of such automotive R&D projects in our college which would put MIT on the national and global technical and automotive map.

TMR took up its first project as the designing of an ATV to compete in the SAE-Mini Baja 2009 competition which was held in June 2009 in Wisconsin, USA. After an overwhelming and successful first year, the team was ready for a bigger and more challenging project and hence they registered for SAE Baja New York 2010 on the 5th of October, 2009. For this competition, the team has to make a car which will compete not only on land but also in water.

TMR is proud to represent India in the SAE- Baja, and will try its best to make the Indian engineering community proud.

Lot of hope and expectations have been placed upon us by our university, college, sponsors and all well wishers. We are grateful for their support and the faith they have shown in our capabilities. We will not disappoint them.