We would like to inform You about the Formula Student Hungary (FSH) competition. It will be held from August 19, 2010 to August 22, 2010. FSH will take place at Győr, Hungary.
Our goal is to give more publicity to Formula Student Events in Eastern Europe, to make this competition more famous in this area. That’s why we want to create a high quality event for the competitors and visitors.
You can start to registrate now, and then come to Győr and find some new experience in Formula Student Racing!
Why in Győr?
Győr, as one of the key centres of the national automotive industry, has always played a central role in the economy of Hungary and the region.
Due to its robust economy and its cultural and educational strengths, the city of Győr can be the perfect place to organize a Formula Student Event. The town bears the prestigious title of ‘Gateway to the West’ with good reason, being in an excellent position within the Vienna, Budapest, Bratislava triangle to welcome its visitors.
The Venue
The first Hungarian Formula Student Event will take place at the Győr-Gönyü Kikötő, which is a harbor at the Danube river. The participating teams will be provided with student hostels at the Széchenyi István University in the city.
Registration
Event Registration starts at 12:00 CEST 01.06.2010.
Detailed information: www.fshungary.hu
Schedule
Thursday - 19th August
• 7:30 - 21:00 Ticket Center & Team Registration
• 7:30 - 21:00 Event Control & Driver Registration
The Rules for Formula Student Hungary (FSH) will be based on the 2010 Formula SAE® Rules. FSH established some specific changes, which are available at www.fshungary.hu
In every case do not hesitate to contact Anna Winkler (Communications, Event Support Leader):
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The last few months intensive negotiations took place between the Formula Student teams of the TU Delft and Uni Stuttgart. After finalizing the arrangement this weekend, we are very proud to present to you a joint venture between the two teams.
As pilot project for this new cooperation the construction of a single electric race car has been selected.
“The idea for cooperation was born, because both DUT-E Racing Delft as well as GreenTeam Uni Stuttgart lacked the man power to tackle the large challenges they found themselves confronted with,” Simon Teufel of GreenTeam Uni Stuttgart explains. It was not long before both teams found each other. Teufel: “Combining the know-how and experience of the Delft and Stuttgart teams is guaranteed to improve this situation.”
Last weekend the final negotiations took place in Delft, where both teams met in person. A joint testing day was organized as cover-up for the meeting. “The result for both parties is most pleasing,” says Remco Advocaat (DUT-E Racing Deflt), “the build quality impressive track-record of Rennteam Uni Stuttgart marry well with the light-weight expertise of Delft combined with knowledge of eletric drive trains available at the TU Delft.”
For now, both teams will continue to exist, because of legal implications. The only difference is that at the competition they are represented by one car, and one team name. This means all sponsoring contracts remain legally valid. The main difference is the increased chance of winning the first Formula Student Electric competition, since two of the world’s top Formula Student teams join forces to discover unknown territory: the purely electric Formula Student car.
Good communication between Stuttgart and Delft has been established by means of online file sharing technology and regular teleconferences.
More information on the joint venture will follow shortly.
The 2nd edition of this competition attracted almost 4 times as many teams as last year’s edition
VI-grade GmbH, the leading provider of best-in-class products and services to bridge the gap between real world testing and technical simulation, today announced that a record amount of teams have subscribed to the 2010 edition of the Virtual Formula competition. In particular, VI-grade has received 66 registrations, almost 4 times as many as last year’s edition of the competition. A selection of the logos of all participating teams can be found below.
“Last year’s edition of Virtual Formula represented a strong competition against 18 teams from all over the world”, declared Guido Bairati, Sales Director of VI-grade. “We are extremely pleased by the resonance that we – together with the sponsors of the initiative – have managed to build around this year’s edition.”
Virtual Formula 2010 is built upon the rules and regulations of the popular Formula SAE and Formula Student and is based on the usage of VI-Motorsport, VI-grade’s interactive simulation environment for motorsport vehicle modeling and dynamic analysis.
All registered teams will be granted access to the VI-grade state-of-the-art simulation software to find the best set-up for their car. The participating teams are challenged to optimize the performance of a virtual race car, minimizing the lap time on a given autocross track. The competition will be won by the team that will drive the vehicle with the shortest laptime on the given circuit. The winning team will receive a driving simulator powered by the VI-grade real-time vehicle model and the Concurrent Linux-based hardware, for a total estimated value of 30,000 EUR.
The 2010 Virtual Formula edition is sponsored by Albatech Monaco, Concurrent, FStotal.com, MIRA, Danisi Engineering, Triple8.
Followers of the Formula SAE and Formula Student series will witness a groundbreaking event in the 2010 racing season. The BA Racing Team from the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg-Ravensburg (DHBW-R), Germany, and the Beaver Racing Team from Oregon State University (OSU) have combined forces this year with the goal of competing as a single international entity.This innovative global collaboration is the first of its kind in the history of both the US-based Formula SAE and EU-based Formula Student programs and is the result of three years of discussions and planning between team members and faculty from both universities. Previously, DHBW-R and OSU students have collaborated on designing certain aspects of one another’s vehicles. This year the collaboration has moved to a whole new level: The two universities have designed an entire car together and are entering the US and EU competitions as one and the same team: Global Formula Racing (GFR).
Design
During a series of meetings held in Germany in August 2009, GFR team leaders decided on the overall concept for the 2010 car: an ultra-lightweight vehicle with a full monocoque chassis and single cylinder engine. This concept has been realized over the last several months through trans-Atlantic collaborations on virtually all subsystem design tasks:
A team of students from both universities designed the suspension.
The CFRP (carbon fiber) monocoque chassis was designed and analyzed by DHBW-R students while OSU students concurrently developed the CFRP manufacturing processes and designed the chassis interfaces.
Engine development was also split between the universities, with engine simulation studies done at DHBW-R and physical validation of those simulations at OSU.
DHBW-R students did electronics design.
In any team design project, frequent communication between members is a critical ingredient of project success. Because GFR team members are based at two different sites, this communication must be conducted virtually—and the fact that these sites are nine time zones apart has presented unique logistical challenges. Project meetings occur frequently and are held at all hours of the day and night. Communication tools include a variety of virtual teaming technologies, including Skype, Google Documents, Catia V5 and Teamcenter Engineering.
Manufacturing
The collaboratively developed GFR design is being used to manufacture two identical cars—one at the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, and the other at the DHBW-R campus in Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Effective supply chain management is a significant challenge in this effort, the biggest concern being where to purchase and manufacture vehicle parts. For each manufactured part, the team has had to decide whether to (1) manufacture two parts in Germany and ship one to the US; (2) manufacture two parts in the US and ship one to Germany; or (3) manufacture one part in each location. Off-the-shelf purchases require similar decisions. In a trans-Atlantic design collaboration, manufacturing capabilities, shipping costs, taxes and tariffs, and lead times must all be considered.
Management
Clearly, managing such a venture is a not simple task, and GFR has developed a unique project management structure to deal with its globally distributed design, manufacturing and supply chain management issues. Upper management consists of a steering committee comprising graduate student advisors and faculty members from each university. This committee is responsible for high-level decisions regarding team structure and management. Undergraduate student leaders at both locations manage design, manufacturing logistics, communication channels and daily team operations and advise team members. Sub-teams of students from both schools handle detailed design and manufacturing responsibilities.
Competitions
The Global Formula Racing team is registered for four 2010 competitions: Formula SAE Michigan, Formula SAE California, Formula Student UK, and Formula Student Germany. Students from both universities will participate in each of these events. They will use the vehicle assembled at OSU for the US competitions and the one assembled at DHBW-R for the European competitions.
GFR 2010
DHBW-R and OSU students are working effectively to design and build an excellent vehicle. By combining knowledge, experience, and resources of two top-10 teams from 2009, the Global Formula Racing team expects to be very competitive in the 2010 international events. GFR team members and supporters are excited to see what this season will bring. We look forward to seeing you on the track!
Queensland is renowned for many things - pristine coastlines (littered with beaches to die for), a climate that screams of tropical perfection and an atmosphere that makes the average sloth look like a high-speed action-seeking hero. As if that weren’t enough, the state can boast of another undeniable drawcard to be proud of.
But it’s far from sand, surf and sunnies.
It’s a Formula SAE team.
Nestled within the heart of the city of Brisbane, settling in between its famous river and bountiful parklands, is the Queensland University of Technology. Whilst the cluster of ornate buildings and blend of history versus technology stand loudly and proudly against the backdrop of arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world, it’s the small workshop underneath the discrete setting of the Civil Engineering block where QUT’s giant-killing Formula SAE team work their magic.
As far as experienced Formula SAE teams go, QUT’s version are only puppies - having been founded in 2003 after much heated discussion and enthusiastic planning, the team’s first car was constructed in time for the 2004 Formula SAE-Australasia competition. Since then, the team has built just 4 more machines, each a logical and progressive evolution of the last.
That is, except for the latest QUT challenger. Whilst logic certainly hasn’t deserted the clever clogs within the Engineering faculty, the university’s 2009 machine could only be classed as a revolution. With every system on the car undergoing a complete ground-up overhaul, the latest incarnation has a grand total of zero percent carryover parts to display - a testament to the mighty efforts of the car’s design team.
For 2009 the design philosophy was the same as in previous years - reliability is paramount, and although QUT’s young team are still climbing the ladder of engineering prowess, they’re laying the foundations for a reliable car before perfecting the package, and therefore the speed that they all know they have. In addition to that, QUT’s design vision is beyond just the one-hit Formula SAE competition, and the team’s goal to create a simple, lightweight and effective competition vehicle extends its use to the wider motorsport-based public, who could effectively use the QUT machine for hillclimbs and other sprint events.
One of the aspects that proved a hit with the sharp-eyed engineers among the other SAE teams was the revolutionary 3-spring design incorporated in the latest QUT “Ozanne” car (named after a team member who so tragically lost his life as the car went into its final construction stages). This spring set up was in place to solve the problem of dive and squat when the car accelerated or braked - whilst the two outside springs in the cluster independently took care of the forces from each wheel, the centre spring compressed when the forces from both wheels took hold simultaneously, stopping undesirable chassis repositioning. Needless to say, the brainchild of the idea was rather pleased with his efforts. A feat just as impressive as the trick suspension is what’s holding it to the rear of the car; a fully machined aluminium rear end groups the spool, sprocket, braking apparatus and rear suspension components together in one piece of engineering marvel. All this was designed using Solidworks underpinnings, with Ansys, Adams and AVL analysis tools giving the figures.
The design overhaul evidently caused some dramas - the car was only just together in time for the 2008 edition of the Formula SAE-A championships after several setbacks, and despite a never-say-die attitude jettisoning the untested car through most rounds of scrutineering, the car’s rear brakes developed a problem, and as such, failed to lock for the brake test. The electronic paddle-shift gave eternal trouble, and was only truly perfected just in time for the 2009 competition. Despite facing incredible odds, the team’s 20-strong competition never put down their tools.
The said 20-odd competition team members are the prime movers and shakers in a 50-or-so team of highly dedicated QUT students, from all walks of university life - aside from the engineers who form the staple diet of any Formula SAE team, QUT’s sprightly bunch are a combination of business, electrical, finance, journalism, PR and photography students. On top of this, QUT’s second-to-none faculty and university staff have provided unwavering and unmatched support, with academic advisors and staff members alike passionate about making the most of QUT’s exceptional team.
With the engineers taking care of building the car (with the occasional foray into the guild bar for a few ‘meetings’), the business students proudly develop the team’s publicity and media interests. Like any professional race team, QUT are gratuitously proficient at making sure the team’s image and professional relationships are kept at their highest possible level. Sponsor/team events are not uncommon, and the team’s top business brass spread the word at many of the major events in Queensland, including the Gold Coast Indycar round, and the Queensland 500 V8 Supercar round. If not for the efforts of the business gurus, partnerships with such quality supporters such as Mazda, Laser Central and Parsons Brinckerhoff would never have been formed.
The business team take their job every bit as seriously as the guys that build the car, and as the editor of the team’s “OnTrack” news release, none can be in a more savvy position than yours truly. Throw in the fact that the business, engineering and design teams all work together in almost seamless harmony, and you have one fancy little racing team.
Even the drivers are considered seriously - the team’s latest initiative has been a driver development program, where go-karting trials are held and the best and most promising QUT student candidates are selected for proper honing and refined training, to make the most of our home-grown talent.
The direction for QUT’s revelers is onwards and upwards - with the 2010 car already getting its skeleton tacked together (the chassis and suspension are completed, and assembly has begun), preparation for the upcoming Formula SAE season has never been better. After 2009’s impressive personal best results at the Formula SAE-A competition - where the team collected a creditable fourth place in the autocross event, a phenomenal second place in the prestigious endurance event, and placing fourth overall for the competition - 2010‘s goal is to move even further in to the dizzying heights of the Formula SAE stratosphere. Being so privileged as to be on the inside of this impressive operation, I’m fascinated and excited to see the calm before the storm. All this, and I even get to be so lucky as to be lead driver for the team for a third year running.
2010, the best yet? You better believe it.
Technical Spec Sheet
Car Number
046
University
Queensland University of Technology
Dimensions
Front
Rear
Overall Length[mm]
2338
Overall Width [mm]
1476
Overall Height [mm]
1404
Wheelbase [mm]
1600
Track [mm]
1130
1090
Weight with 68kg driver [kg]
132
168
Suspension Parameters
Front
Rear
Suspension Type
Unequal lenght double wishbone. Push rod & bell crank actuated spring/damper unit.
Unequal lenght double wishbone. Push rod & bell crank actuated spring/damper unit.
Tire Size and Compound Type
20x6,5-13 R25A Hoosier
20x8-13 R25A Hoosier
Wheels
Spun Aluminium Outers and Machined Aluminium Centres 13"x150mm-21mm offset
Spun Aluminium Outers and Machined Aluminium Centres 13"x150mm-21mm offset
We would like to inform You about the Formula Student Hungary (FSH) competition. It will be held from August 19, 2010 to August 22, 2010. FSH will take place at Győr, Hungary.
As pilot project for this new cooperation the construction of a single electric race car has been selected. 
Good communication between Stuttgart and Delft has been established by means of online file sharing technology and regular teleconferences.
