10. August 2019
Congratulations to all teams - Award Ceremony Part I
We congratulate all teams that have received their well-deserved awards during Award Ceremony Part I on Saturday. Your dedication, time and effort was well-worth it. This marks the first part of Formula Student Germany this...
09. August 2019
The one and only PANORAMIC picture
And here it is: The one and only panoramic picture! Thanks to all teams!https://media.formulastudent.de/2019/Hockenheim/Panoramic-Picture/i-hxz64pG
09. August 2019
Guided Tours
Come join us at the Information Counter in the FSG Forum where you can sign up for a Guided Tour of the event site. The guide will explain to you the Formula Student competitions and what the teams must do in order to win. If you...
09. August 2019
Pressemitteilung: Studenten aus aller Welt gestalten die Mobilität der Zukunft
119 Teams aus 25 Nationen bei der Formula Student Germany - Autonome Funktionen in den Fahrzeugen gewinnen an Bedeutung - FSG bietet beste Voraussetzungen für einen gelungenen Karrierestart
09. August 2019
Snapshot - Thursday at #FSG19
Thursday is mainly statics and inspection day as well. Nevertheless the first of the dynamic events took place. The driverless Skid Pad, where the teams competed for the first dynamic points. In the evening the Engineering...
08. August 2019
Review of the first Static Events
Besides the ongoing inspection events, the FSE as well as FSD Static Events took place on Wednesday. During the whole day experienced judges from our partners as well as judges from companies with deep contact to the fields of...
08. August 2019
FSG TV Live - Broadcasting Schedule
Like in the past years Formula Student Germany will broadcast the most important events live from the Hockenheimring. The events will be provided via our FSG TV channel. For all fans at home or on a trip, the following events...
06. August 2019
A warm welcome to all participating teams at FSG 2019
With the "Team Welcome" tonight, Formula Student Germany 2019 officially kicked off! We are looking forward to an exciting week of skills, speed and spirit. This year 119 teams from 25 nations are competing in the three...
06. August 2019
FSG19 Special Award Schedules
Every year we offer a variety of Special Awards in cooperation with our partners. The goal of this awards is to evaluate engineering excellence in a special field of design. 2019 our partners AID, BASF, Daimler, Kube and Siemens...
05. August 2019
FSG19 Engineering Design Scoring Categories
Based on FS Rule S3.8.2, Formula Student Germany will use different Engineering Design Scoring Categories during #FSG19. We have modified the scoring matrix to match it to the established Engineering Design Event Procedure and...
05. August 2019
Finalists for the "Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence" Award 2019
For the 2nd year - at FSG19, Siemens Software is sponsoring the “FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award”, a 7.500 EUR award to recognize three teams which have used the most professional, innovative and thoughtful...
05. August 2019
Finalists for the "BASF Best Use of 3D Printing Award 2019"
New “additive thinking” and engineering skill sets are required to bring the full power of 3D printing on the road. With the BASF Best Use of 3D Printing Award we want to appreciate and distinguish innovative approaches that...
04. August 2019
FSG19 Pre-Entrance Regulations and Procedure
Until Tuesday 15:30, a maximum of 7 DV & EV team members with "pink passes" may enter specific areas on the venue. The only accessible areas are the pit building, charging tent and parts of the dynamic...
04. August 2019
Remember the 12m Truck-Trailer limit and watch out the new entrance routes
Before you load your truck and set up to Hockenheim, please read DE4.1 of the Competition Handbook again. These rules are the same like last year. You can only use one team truck (including trailer <=12m long) for unloading...
28. July 2019
The finalists of the "Daimler Driverless AI Award 2019"
Daimler has a vision of a future with fewer traffic accidents and less stress. Our special award this year focuses on AI innovations within your overall system and development process. We are pleased to announce the following...
28. July 2019
The finalists of the "AID Rapid Development Award 2019"
Here at Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID), we have set out to build a self-driving system for the Volkswagen Group and beyond. Over the past few years, we have witnessed Formula Student Driverless teams shift their focus from...
22. July 2019
FSG Kube "Crashbox Award"
For more than 20 years Kube has been developing requirement-oriented solutions for safety-critical applications in automotive, aerospace and industrial sectors. One of our core competences is vehicle safety. We simulate...
09. July 2019
AID Rapid Development Award 2019
Here at Autonomous Intelligent Driving (AID), we have set out to build a self-driving system for the Volkswagen Group and beyond. In working towards this goal, we wish to change the lives of millions of people over the coming...
04. July 2019
BPP Deep Dive Topic published for FSG19
Dear Teams, the Deep Dive Topics for the Business Plan Presentation Event have been published on the FSG website. Good luck with your preparations!
26. June 2019
Temperature Monitoring Device Updates and Technical Inspection Sheets published
Dear Teams, as you know we aimed to design a new temperature monitoring device for FSG 2019. However, due to some issues during the development process, we need to announce that the device will not be ready for FSG 2019. What...
07. June 2019
Daimler Driverless AI Award 2019
Daimler has a vision of a future with fewer traffic accidents and less stress. We are working to achieve this vision through automation, electrification and connectivity. Automation is one of the biggest drivers of change in the...
06. June 2019
Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award 2019
For the 2nd year - at FSG19, Siemens Software is sponsoring the “FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award”, a 7.500 EUR award to recognize 3 teams which have used the most professional, innovative and thoughtful...
02. June 2019
BASF Best Use of 3D Printing Award 2019
The Motivation Individually shaped objects can be created in layers from various materials, for example plastic, metal and ceramics. The industry has been using the 3D printing process, also known as Additive Manufacturing, for...
24. May 2019
The updated FSG 2019 Competition Handbook is online!
The FSG 2019 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2019, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important information about the competition itself. It has been updated in the following...
22. May 2019
FSG Driverless Starters Workshop
The first FSG Driverless Starters Workshop was held on 11th of Mai 2019 in Munich at AID. In total, 160 Students from 56 teams and 12 countries attended this event. We would like to thank Autonomous Intelligent Driving GmbH and...
06. April 2019
FSG Driverless Starters Workshop in Munich at AID on Sat 11th of May
To help teams getting started with DV technology FSG will organize a Driverless starters workshop. This workshop focuses on bringing the driverless technology to everybody who is already familiar with Formula Student cars but...
01. February 2019
Registration Quiz Results + Protest Time
313 teams participated in the FSG registration quiz. We analysed the logs and could not find any problematic questions nor technical problems. Therefore, we will publish the correct answers on Saturday at 13:00 CET on our...
28. January 2019
FSG19 Competition Handbook V1.0 and test registration are online!
The FSG 2019 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2019, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important information about the competition itself. It also gives details on the...
14. January 2019
SES, SESA and IAD forms are online
The SES, SESA and IAD Forms are now available in the important documents section. Please use these forms and included instructions for your document uploads. The SES Form is an updated version of the one used last year at FSG....
22. November 2018
An outlook on FSG 2021 and the following seasons
FSG is pushing the Driverless development even farther, while keeping all mechanical engineering development. Thereby we want to set a challenging exercise for diverse engineering teams and give all participating students the...
21. November 2018
FSG Academy at ZF in Friedrichshafen - Media
Last Saturday, 300 students from 72 teams attended the FSG Academy kick-off event for FSG2019 at the ZF Forum in Friedrichshafen. Many thanks to ZF and all involved for the wonderful day! For all who could not attend, we have...
18. November 2018
2019 Competition & Registration Dates
The FSG Registration Quiz will be held on 2019-02-01 13:00 CET. FSG 2019 will be held from 2019-08-05 until 2019-08-11 in Hockenheim. Both of these days have been chosen in coordination with the other European...
11. November 2018
Spaces left for FSG Academy 2018 at ZF Friedrichshafen
Due to a technical glitch, we now have some spaces left for this years FSG Academy at ZF Friedrichshafen. Until 2018-11-11 13:00 CET the same procedures as for the first part of the normal registration apply: Only 5 team members...
01. November 2018
Free Online Workshop - Aerodynamics and CFD with SimScale
SimScale and Formula Student Germany are joining forces for the third time to offer a free workshop series about the application of CFD in Formula Student. Participants will receive a hands-on, interactive introduction to the...
21. October 2018
FSG Academy 2018 at ZF in Friedrichshafen
The yearly FSG academy main event offering support and information to Formula Student teams will be held on Saturday the 17th of November 2018 at ZF in Friedrichshafen. It is open to anyone who is a registered member of a Formula...
07. October 2018
Rules 2019 V1.1 published
The Rules 2019 V1.1 including your input are now published. Thank you for all your feedback. We will answer to all tickets in the feedback tracker. Changes to V1.1 can be easily found using the Changelog at the beginning of...
19. September 2018
Rules 2019 V1.0 + Rules Feedback Tool
The first version of the rules for FSG2019 is now published. While overall no substantial changes have been applied, a lot of detailed work has been done to clarify and simplify the...
12. August 2018
#FSG18 says thank you and congratulates all winners
#FSG18 is over. Seven hot days, three technical vehicle classes, thousands of participants and visitors made this Formula Student Germany amazing again. Congratulation to the winner of #FSG18 and thank you to all participants,...
09. August 2018
FSG Penalty Publishing Tool was born
A new FSG tool was born at #FSG18. From now on the FSG Scoring Team is publishing penalties of offences happened during ACC, SKP, ATX and Misc. events on the FSG Website in details. The intention behind the tool is to make FSG...
09. August 2018
FSC Design Finals (FRI, 19:30 -22:00) & Cost Shoot Out (FRI, 09:00 - 10:10)
Thursday was the second Statics Day of #FSG18. In addition to this the second Engineering Design and Cost Event round took place. This time the FSC teams were judged by our experts from different businesses. Similar to the...
09. August 2018
FSG Kube "Crashbox Award"
For more than 20 years Kube has been developing requirement-oriented solutions for safety-critical applications in automotive, aerospace and industrial sectors. One of our core competences is vehicle safety. We simulate...
09. August 2018
FSC Business Plan Presentation Finals (THU, 19:30 - 20:30)
The second #FSG18 Statics Event Day comes to its end. Beside the FSE and FSD Engineering Design Finals, the FSC Business Plan Presentation final will take place at the end of the day. Today 58 teams presented their business...
09. August 2018
FSD & FSE Design Finals (THU, 19:15 - 21:45)
On Wednesday the #FSG18 Engineering Design Event for FSE and FSD teams took place. 132 judges from different companies with a lot of experience in different special fields of vehicle design evaluated the teams. After a long...
08. August 2018
Business Plan FSE Finals and FSD Highlight Presentation (WED, 20-21)
The first day of #FSG18 Statics Events is almost done. The day will be closed by the FSE Business Plan Finals and FSD Business Plan Highlight Presentation. 43 Business Plan Judges evaluated the whole day creative and exciting...
07. August 2018
FSG18 Engineering Design Scoring Categories
Based on FS Rule S3.8.2, Formula Student Germany will use different Engineering Design Scoring Categories during #FSG18. We have modified the scoring matrix to match it to the established Engineering Design Event Procedure and...
06. August 2018
[UPDATE] FSG18 Special Awards Finalists & Schedule
The Special Awards is a section in engineering design where the teams have the possibility to show and present some innovations they implemented in their car.Every year several sponsors offer the great opportunity to FSC and FSE...
04. August 2018
[UPDATE] Team and truck entrance on Monday and Tuesday (copy 1)
[Update]: On Tuesday, until 15:30, a maximum of 7 DV/EV team members with pink passes may enter specific areas on the venue. The only accessible areas are the dynamic area, charging tent and pit building. CV access will start at...
01. August 2018
[UPDATE] Fixed time slots for Tech-Inspection and Tech-Inspection-Sheets online
Fixed time slots for Technical Inspection: Based on feedback from the FSG workshop round-table discussions and the wish to have as many teams as possible at FSG we decided to introduce a fixed time schedule and slots for the...
01. August 2018
FSG2018 Pre-inspection Procedure + Driver Egress Test
Pre-Inspection as a part of the Technical Inspection will be carried out in a tent in the area directly in front of Dynamic Gate g2. The Pre-Inspection will follow the "first come first serve" principle and is available...
31. July 2018
[UPDATE] FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award
Due to your feedback we decided together with our partner Siemens to re-open the upload area for FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award for all teams until Monday, 6th August 2018, 23:59 CEST. All teams are...
26. July 2018
FSG18 Business Plan Presentation Event - Deep Dive Topic
#FSG18 Business Plan Presentation Deep Dive Topics for FSC, FSD and FSE teams are available within the rules section on the FSG website from now on.
23. July 2018
FS Rules 2018 - Feedback Welcome
If you found errors, ambiguities or inconsistencies in the FS Rules 2018, we offer you the opportunity to provide feedback. Please note that only constructive criticism and ideally alternative wording proposals are ...
11. July 2018
Reminder: Limitations for Team Trucks
Due to the limited space in Hockenheim and to ensure a well-ordered build-up and tear-down of the pits, each team can use ONLY ONE vehicle, called the "team truck", to transport their competition vehicle and equipment. ...
06. July 2018
FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award
For the first time - at FSG ’18, Siemens PLM software is sponsoring the “FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award”, a 7.000 EUR award to recognize 2 teams which have used the most professional, innovative and...
03. July 2018
Daimler e-Drive Technology Award 2018: Apply now!
At Daimler, we are convinced: The future is electric. That is why we are setting the course for tomorrow today. We prove this with our brand for intelligent electric mobility: EQ – Electric Intelligence. However, there are still...
02. July 2018
BASF Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Award 2018
Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”? High performance plastics are a very sophisticated form of chemicals and have a large variety. They can contain different types...
15. May 2018
“Most Innovative Powertrain System” powered by MTU
As a leading supplier of diesel engines and systems for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in powertrain design. Each time our engineers tackle the task of...
02. May 2018
Win Tickets for „Dritev - Drivetrain for Vehicles“
The VDI awards tickets for the first 20 participants to the congress “Dritev - Drivetrain for Vehicles” from June 27-28, 2018 in Bonn, Germany. You are allowed to participate at the competition, if you are active FSG team member...
12. April 2018
FSG2018 ESF (Electrical System Form) Deadline
The ESF is now online and can be submitted. Due to some changes in the structure of the ESF forms the process of bringing them online and working took longer than expected. This inconvenience will be compensated by extending the...
02. April 2018
The updated FSG 2018 Competition Handbook is online!
The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2018, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important information about the competition itself. It has been updated in the following...
02. April 2018
Campsite Situation clarified for FSG2018
We’re happy to announce the availability of the C2 and C3 campgrounds next to the Hockenheimring providing proximity to the event ground for the Formula Student Germany 2018 event. Here you’ll find the campsite location...
12. March 2018
Advanced Concepts in CFD Workshop by SimScale
SimScale partners with Formula Student Germany to offer a free workshop on advanced CFD topics for Formula Student participants.
12. March 2018
FSD & FSE: Autonomous & Electrical Add Item Requests
The web-based forms for ASF Add Item Request (AAIR) & ESF Add Item Request (EAIR) are now available. Firstly, please check whether all items you need for your Autonomous System Form (ASF)/Electrical System Form...
13. February 2018
Win Tickets for „PIAE – Plastics in Automotive Engineering“
The VDI awards tickets for the first 5 participants to the congress “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” from March 14-15, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany. You are allowed to participate at the competition, if you are active FSG team...
26. January 2018
With Riedel on Air! [UPDATE 20180126]
Sponsoring for 2 European teams with a total value of € 15,000
22. January 2018
Registration Quiz: Updates of the Answers [UPDATE 20180122-2]
Dear all, due to some protests, we have made the following changes to the quiz results. Question 1 has been deleted and will not count for the registration time. Two variations of question 3 have been...
22. January 2018
Registration Quiz: Integrated waiting periods for fast teams
You should answer the questions as quickly as possible, but the questions will be available at the earliest at the following times. Question Time [hh:mm:ss] 1 13:00:00 CET2 13:05:00 CET3 13:10:00 CET4 13:15:00 CET5 13:20:00...
19. January 2018
New Type of Answers in the Quiz for FSG2018 on Monday
We have updated the quiz server today in order to allow the entry of numbers without multiple choice. Please note that you have to use the exact number format according to the question, all other formats will not be accepted as a...
11. January 2018
The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook V1.0 and test registration are online!
The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2018, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important information about the competition itself. It also gives details on...
24. December 2017
Updated Formula Student World Ranking Lists
Both Formula Student World Ranking Lists have been updated after the last competition of this season in Australia. You will find them on https://mazur-events.de/fs-world/. The year 2017 is successfully coming to an...
20. December 2017
New Mailing System @ FSG
FSG has switched the mailing system as of December 13th 2017. In practice this should not make a difference - all previously known addresses stay the same. However, we advise especially the teams to check and update their...
18. December 2017
Registration starts on 22th of January [UPDATE 20171220]
The team registration starts on 2018-01-22 13:00 CET and will take place in the form of a quiz. There will be one quiz for all three classes. The topic for the quiz is: Formula Student Rules 2018 (excluding the specific rules for...
06. December 2017
Driverless: EBS Reference Guide is finally released
We are happy to announce that the Emergency Brake System (EBS) Reference Guide, we presented on the FSG Workshop, is now available for download. It can be found in the Rules section: Important Documents for FSG 2018. This...
01. December 2017
SimScale and Formula Student Germany offers Free FEA Simulation Workshop
Aerodynamics and CFD are only one part of the equation when designing a Formula Student race car. Finite Element Analysis is another fast and convenient tool for approximating solutions to a variety of complicated engineering...
03. November 2017
Win Tickets for „Vehicle safety 2017“
The VDI awards tickets for the first 5 participants to the biggest branch meeting of security experts in the automotive industry – the congress “Vehicle safety 2017”.
25. October 2017
FSG Academy 2017 in Herzogenaurach: Slides & Videos are online
The yearly FSG academy event offering support and information to Formula Student teams was held on 21st October 2017 at Schaeffler in Herzogenaurach in cooperation with MathWorks. Over 300 students from 66 teams and 8 countries...
08. October 2017
Win Tickets for Electronics in vehicles - ELIV 2017
The VDI awards tickets for the first 10 participants to the most important branch meeting of electronic experts in the automotive industry - the VDI Congress "Electronics in vehicles - ELIV". The congress focuses on the...
02. October 2017
Rules 2018 v1.1 published
As planned, the Rules 2018 V1.1 including your feedback are now published. Changes to V1.0 can be easily found using the Changelog at the beginning of the document. As announced earlier, this document will not change anymore and...
18. September 2017
Rules 2018 v1.0 + Feedback Tracker
The first version of the rules for FSG2018 is now published: FS-Rules_2018_V1.0.pdf. While overall no substantial changes have been applied, a lot of detailed work has been done to clarify and simplify the document. Oversea...
09. September 2017
FSG 2017 Penalty Decisions and Updated Results including decisions regarding protests
Formula Student Germany would like to inform about changes within the results of #FSG2017 due to protests and feedbacks. Furthermore to make the results and decisions by the rules and scoring committee as transparent a...
06. September 2017
2018 Rules Schedule
Monday, 2017-09-18first version of 2018 rules will be published, this version is meant to be close to final. FSG forum opens to collect feedback until Sunday, 2017-09-24 13:00...
05. September 2017
Formula Student Aerodynamics and CFD Workshop
After last year's huge success, SimScale and Formula Student Germany are again joining forces to offer a revised edition of the free workshop series about the application of CFD in Formula Student. Participants will receive a...
13. August 2017
Award Ceremony Part 2 - Congratulations to all winners!
It’s been a long week on the Hockenheimring racetrack. Finally, all the time spent by the teams on testing and optimizing the vehicles has paid off. It has been a very successful week of competing and racing! We...
13. August 2017
Formula Student Driverless Round Table
All teams with serious interest to participate in Formula Student Driverless next year are invited to send one representative to the FSD Round Table at 18:30 (BW-Tower, 4th floor).
13. August 2017
FSG 2017 Endurance Running Order v2 ***Update***
A new running order for the Endurance event has been published. The former running order was created based on wrong data input regarding the lap times of the teams considered. The FSG team apologises for the inconvenience and...
12. August 2017
FSE 2017 Engineering Design Finalists
The FSE Engineering Design Event is the battle for the best designed and build Formula Student Electric car. Before the event each team uploaded a six page engineering design report as well as the technical specification of the...
11. August 2017
FSC 2017 Engineering Design Finalists
65 teams did compete in the FSC Engineering Design Event. Hundreds of pages were evaluated by the statics team and judges. Additionally a lot of discussions and presentation took place on Thursday. It was a thrilling event and we...
11. August 2017
Resumé of Day 4
The Driverless Dynamics kicked off on Thursday, with ETH Zurich successfully completing the first real lap of the Acceleration event. The rain was pouring, but this did not dampen the spirits as the crowds cheered at the...
11. August 2017
FSD: Updated track drive procedure
Based on the experiences from the first ever FSD dynamic events yesterday, we decided to update the procedure for todays track drive event as follows: Track drive is split into two sessions One run per session ...
10. August 2017
FSD2017 Trackdrive Running Order
The first Formula Student Driverless Trackdrive Running Order is available now. Details concerning the process will be explained during the Friday morning briefing. We are looking forward to a thrilling competition and wish all...
10. August 2017
Important Info for Morning Briefing
Please attend the morning briefing (8 a.m. CEST) with at least 1 ESO per team (Electric Vehicle), ASR has to attend as usual.
10. August 2017
Today's Team Briefing
The presentation of today's Team Briefing available for download now:
10. August 2017
Media Footage
...do you want to see some more photos? Check out the OFFICIAL FSG photos from the week so far under: http://media.formulastudent.de/FSG17
10. August 2017
Insulated tools to be used in charging/accumulator tent.
After a light incident with a battery cell shortcut in the charging tent (no person harmed or affected) we have decided to allow only iinsulated tools to be brought into the charging tent. Please make sure to sort any non...
10. August 2017
Update Driverless Dynamics
Contrary to the announcement in todays team briefing and the rules, there will be four runs per driverless vehicle for acceleration and skid pad. Run one and two have priority in the running order.
10. August 2017
Request from Commentators to Teams
For the coming race days the commentators would really like to have your input about any fun facts regarding your team. What's your car's name? Who are the drivers and what are their nicknames? Whose team helped you getting here?...
09. August 2017
Resumé of Day 3
Day 3 of Formula Student Germany and the teams are working hard to get their cars through the tough scrutineering in order to be able to compete in the dynamic events. A couple of driverless teams (2) have made it through and we...
09. August 2017
FSG! FSG!
Today we managed to bring 84 of the 114 Teams together for a giant photo overlooking the Formula Student Germany event site. It was a beautiful day and the teams were buzzing as they patiently waited for the 2017 Panoramic...
09. August 2017
Again a warm welcome to FSG 2017!
For those who could not participate: download the Team Welcome and the Team Briefing - Tuesday Presentation on https://www.formulastudent.de/fsg/rules/ Please note that all presentation will be published on the FSG...
08. August 2017
FSG17 Special Awards Finalists & Schedule
Special Awards are the battle for trophies within a defined field of engineering design. Each year our sponsors offer the opportunity to the teams to submit an application and present their unique concepts to the judges during...
