Hello guys,
It was another exciting year for us designing and building a Formula Student Car. The competition was held at the Silverstone F1 Circuit, UK this year. It saw a tremendous turnout of 72 colleges (both Post-grad and under-grad colleges).
I'll start with our side of the story.
We arrived on a cold cloudy morning at the circuit. However, our hopes of setting up the car early and getting it ready for scrutiny early were shattered as our crate could not be opened due to unavailability of a forklift at site.
Finally we opened the crate and setup the car but we were way far behind for scrutiny and it was only till late next day the car was passed through scrutiny. Scrutiny was easy and didn't take much time but the time we spent waiting made us lose two of the four precious days at the competition.
After scrutiny we passed tilt and noise test easily.
But Brake test took us time to clear as one of the rear brake lines had suffered damage during transportation. Replacing it and then bleeding the brake circuit again consumed most of the third day.
We finally passed the brake test but at the cost of not being able to participate in the Acceleration, Skidpad and Sprint event as the allocated time for these events was over by the time we cleared brake test.
So it was finally time for the endurance race on the fourth day.
Pictures from the endurance race.
Our pit was the Mclaren's pit but we were sharing it with five other colleges.
Sadly, we couldn't finish the endurance which is a 24-lap race on a part of the F1 track, our car overheated during the 11th lap. On the bright side, I got to drive our very own hand built car on the Silverstone circuit for 11 laps.
Despite the poor performance at the event, we are not disheartened and will try again next year, because the appreciation we get from our judges and the other teams is commendable. It makes us want to come back again and again. My team mates tell me the applause was amazing when I overtook an American college's car and the commentator was very excited seeing our car run on the track.
This Team TU Graz Racing has a budget of 1.2 million euros!!!!
Our very own REVA on the streets of central London.
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