Engineering news
A team of students from the University of Stuttgart have won this year’s Formula Student competition.
The global competition, run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, is the world’s largest student motorsport event and challenges student engineers to design, build and race a single seat racing car in one year.
The University of Stuttgart’s combustion engine team, Rennteam Stuttgart, won after impressive performances in the endurance challenge and the overall dynamic events. Second place went to Germany’s Karlsruhe University, Austria’s TU Graz came third, while the University of Bath were the top UK team in fourth place.
Andrew Deakin, chairman of Formula Student, said: “It’s been great to see an internal combustion car win again. It brings to a close what has been an excellent event with the highest number of cars completing scrutineering and getting through all the dynamic events.
“The competition continues to improve every year and I look forward to welcoming all the teams back in 2017.”
Joscha Haupt, team leader of the University of Stuttgart, said: “It feels amazing to have won this year’s Formula Student. We have worked really hard and are delighted to have come first. It’s very tough to compete against all the strong electric teams but we enjoy the challenge of competing with a combustion engine.
“The team changes every year and the car was fantastic. We want to make sure that we continue to improve so we can come back even stronger next year.”
The competition, now in its 19th year, took place at Silverstone on the 14-17 July.
There were 156 teams in total, and more than 2,000 students from 34 countries at this year’s competition. This year saw a Sri Lankan team entering Formula Student for the first time. There were other teams from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, UK and Ukraine.