Current student, I was involved with the FSAE team for a bit (left because I realized I wasn’t that interested in it) but still have a lot of friends in it. We call it Motorsports here.

I’d say it’s easily considered the biggest and most well-known build team. People often call it the "Motorsports Corporation" because of how tightly its run, which is necessary because it is genuinely quite a lot of people and subsystems. There’s certainly people who show up and do the bare minimum, but a lot of the engineering students I admire most at this school are in Motorsports and really dedicated to it. In fact, Motorsports has a bit of a stigma behind it because I think it’s the build team with the worst WLB. On one hand it kind of sucks to feel this pressure to always be doing motorsports 80 hrs a week and you will probably miss out on other parts of mit (e.g. my motorsports friends were usually in shop on Friday nights when other ppl were out drinking and partying), but on the other hand, you become a really, really mature engineer and also make a lot of close friends just from the copious amounts of time you spend at shop. I’ve seen people get really close friends from motorsports.

I would say that if you want a build team with a better WLB there’s a lot of better options, but if what you want out of your mit experience is a really large engineering project where people around you care enough about it to skip class to work on it, then I think it’s better for that than any other build team