In Japan and Brasil students doing their concepts for season 2010. Teams from Europe working at the CAD while the US teams are in the workshop. In Australia they present the new cars and testing a lot.
Here they are, the news for all the the past weeks:
log in at website first and get ppt´s of the workshop and videos (Sucessful Event Participation, Scrutineering, Dynamics, Rules in Deep, Design, Drivetrain, Highlight Speech)
rules quiz for all to prevent the click challange during registration process
Exciting to the last minutes! Only 5,2 points between overall winner Uni Stuttgart and TU Delft. At the IMechE site you can find many videos from the event.
Formula Student Germany
All teams are looking for the competition next week. The Event Handbook with informations for all participating teams was published. On Friday 09:00-18:00 a dyno is avaiable! And the former DTM-Driver and 5times Champion Bernd Schneider will visit the competition again.
Registration for the competition from 20.-21.08. in Helsinki started.
non Official Competitions: Texas Autocross Weekend
What a great event with lot of fun organised by University of Texas - Arlington.
But what the hell we could see? Almost every team with wrong safety equipment! Imagine you are sitting in a prototype and you are doing Motorsport, some examples for chrashes in Formula SAE/Student.
Last weekend there were some competitions organised by team sponsors.
ZF Racecamp
In Friedrichshafen were the ZF headquarter is located 6 teams get the chance to test their new cars in static and dynamic disciplines.
Design (max 150points)
122 Rennteam Stuttgart
72 Elbflorace
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Business (max 50 Points)
47,5 KA-RaceIng
45 Elbflorace
15 TUfast
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Acceleration
4,095s Rennteam Stuttgart 25 trails
4,139s BA Racing Team 21 trails
4,493s TUfast 8 trails
4,527s KA-RaceIng 5 trails
Skid Pad
5,087s (right) 4,983s (left) TUfast
5,151s (right) 4,981s (left) Rennteam Stuttgart
5,646s (right) 6,094s (left) BA Racing
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Autocross
40,270s TUfast - 7 trails
42,353s Rennteam Stuttgart 10 trails
42,806s BA Racing Team 4 trails
45,547s Dynamics - FH Regensburg 3 trails
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Endurance
38,.. Ravensburg
39,.. TUfast
39,.. Rennteam Stuttgart
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You can find some pictures from the event in our gallery.
IAV Testevent
The second event was in Gifhorn at the IAV GmbH. Following teams attempted: - BTU Motorsport - FaSTTUBe - FHTW Motorsport - Horse Power Hannover (without car) - Lions Racing - Racetech Racint Team (without car) - WHZ Racing Team (only team with 2009 car) - wob-racing
Events like these are a great chance for the teams to test their cars. Additionally, the feedback they get from other teams helps a lot for the upcoming Races.
Best Video of the week is from the Auckland team. They modified their 2007 car into a race simulator. Know they can better prepair their drivers and got a eye-catcher for team presentations.
From June, 17th to 20th was the 3rd competition of the year. Only 45 from 81 registered teams find the way to California. What are the reason for this enormous loss? It can`t be only the financial crisis? First time in FSAE history we could follow live via twitter all news just seconds after something happens at the track. Many thanks to all mini journalists.
Congratulations to overall winner Rochester Institute of Technology. It was a close fight with Oregon State University or conventional car(RIT: spaceframe 4 cylinder) vs ultra light(OSU: monocoque single cylinder). At Brake Test Oregon State had a suspension failure but also finished in design 2nd. After the event a discussion started at fsae.com if a car with such a failure can get so many points in design. Another great topic started: does Formula SAE/Student teams still builts cars for the weekend autocross racer?
We just get shocked after searching for news at the FSAE CAL competitors websites before the event started. Only 3 teams wrote at least one article in June. 5 Teams last posting was from May all other other gots older updates, some were from 2008! Show the world what you are doing. Sponsors, university members, team-alumni, parents and friends are not the only interested people.
