Buggy is a sport with close to eighty years of history and tradition here at Carnegie Mellon. Fraternities and independent student organizations alike build compact, teardrop-shaped racecars called buggies, which are typically driven by the smallest women on campus. The buggies are propelled by both downhill momentum, and, during the uphill portions of the nearly ¾ mile long course, human pushers who race up the "backhills". This results in the sport of buggy being the perfect fusion between engineering prowess and athletic ability. The competition is fierce, with many fraternities and organizations investing months of work and thousands of dollars of equipment to shave just tenths of a second of their course time.

Up until 2007, no organization ever won the race more than 6 consecutive years, a feat completed in the late 1970s. This past year in 2008, the brothers of Pi Kappa Alpha broke this record, taking home a historic 7th consecutive victory in buggy. To go along with this, our Men's A-team also shattered a course record that previously stood since 1988 at 2:06.2. In 2008, PiKA posted a time of 2:04.35, an incredible drop of nearly two full seconds. The winning roll can be seen here or below. Returning a strong team next year, PiKA looks to take home an 8th consecutive championship, and possibly challenege our own course record.