FORMULA STUDENT

Students build a single seat formula racecar with which they can compete against teams from all over the world. The competition is not won solely by the team with the fastest car, but rather by the team with the best overall package of construction, performance, and financial and sales planning. Formula Student challenges the team members to go the extra step in their education by incorporating it into intensive experience in building and manufacturing as well as considering the economic aspects of the automotive industry.

Formula Student is composed of 3 Static and 5 Dynamic events

EVENTS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS:

Static Events:

  • Bussines Plan Presentation

In the Business Plan Presentation, teams are tasked with presenting a profitable business venture based on their prototype race car.

These presentations require in-depth financial projections, high-level project management, and, most importantly, convincing presentation skills.

  • Engineering Design Event

In the EDE, teams should provide a brief description of the vehicle’s design and the team’s design objectives. It must not exceed 10 pages, consisting of 7 pages of content (text, images, graphs) and 3 pages of technical drawings (front, top, and side views of the vehicle).

Teams can include information at their discretion to explain or highlight design features and methods that demonstrate the value and performance of the car.

  • Cost & Manufacturing Event

The cost and manufacturing event tests how well the team can design and produce a prototype race car within a predetermined budget, evaluating their capabilities in cost management and production, with a specific task related to a real case published on the competition website prior to the event.

Three Cost Report Documents (CRD) must be uploaded to the competition website before the competition by the deadline specified in the competition rulebook. These documents are:

  1. Bill of Materials (BOM)
  2. Supporting Material File
  3. Cost Explanation File

Dynamic Events:

  • Acceleration

The car has to accelerate over a distance of 75 meters on a straight, flat surface. This event is divided into two heats, each driven by two drivers, with each driver having two attempts. The score is determined by the difference between the best and worst times. However, the longest time must not exceed 5.8 seconds, and the speed should be at least 46.55 km/h.

  • Skid pad

This event evaluates the car’s turning ability on a track shaped like an “8,” featuring two 15.25-meter circles. Each car must first complete a lap in the right circle to establish the driving direction, followed by a timed lap. Afterward, the car moves to the left circle for two additional laps, with the second lap being timed. The event consists of two heats, each driven by two drivers who have two attempts. The score is based on the ability to achieve lateral speed.

  • Autocross

This is a pushing event which consists in running two laps to value the skills of the car. The circuit is tracked in order to get an average speed between 30 and 40 km/h with short straight lines, constant radius curves, hairpin turns, slaloms, chicanes, and variable radius curves. The score is given by the best lap on the two challenges driven by different drivers.

  • Endurance

This final event of the week evaluates the overall racing performance of each car on a track similar to the Autocross event. Each car must complete 22 km, and teams cannot touch the car during the race, though a driver change lasting three minutes is allowed after 13 laps. The starting order is based on the Autocross score. The total timing for the Endurance event includes both drivers’ times and any penalties. A total of 300 points is available for this event.