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...
08. August 2017
FSD17 Modified Statics Schedule for Saturday
Dear driverless teams participating at Formula Student Germany 2017,due to unforeseeable changes with the judge allocation and event site set-up we unfortunately had to realign the Saturdays Engineering Design & Cost Groups...
07. August 2017
White Competition T-Shirts
Due to space restrictions in Event Control, the White Competition T-Shirts that every Team Member receives will be handed out tomorrow (Tuesday 9th August) at 8.00pm outside Pit 2, before the Welcome Ceremony begins. Note to all...
05. August 2017
Update on the camping situation at the Hockenheim Ring
The FSG Team have been working together with the Hockenheim Ring and can confirm that the campsites C2, C3 and C4 have had multiple trees fall down as a result of the storm on Thursday night. The area will be checked on Monday,...
04. August 2017
FSG Academy on Site 2017
After the successful premiere in 2016, there will also be workshops at the FSG competition in 2017! These workshops will be offered to this years' participants by the sponsors of Formula Student Germany. They will give students...
03. August 2017
Important information about the campsite in Hockenheim
Due to the recent severe weather conditions, the Hockenheim Ring has unfortunately had to close the campsite opposite the track and the campsite on the other side of the Autobahn (campsites C2, C3 and C4)....
11. July 2017
FS Rules 2017 Feedback Welcome
If you found errors, ambiguities or inconsistencies in the FS Rules 2017, we offer you the opportunity to provide feedback. Please note that only constructive criticism and ideally alternative wording proposals are considered for...
11. July 2017
Formula Student Teams at Bosch Proving Ground Boxberg
On July the 8th Bosch opened it’s proving ground at Boxberg to 20 Formula Student teams in order to test their cars for the upcoming events such as Formula Student Germany in Hockenheim. The teams had the chance to get...
04. July 2017
Daimler Best E-Drive Packaging Award 2017: Apply now!
The future has begun: Numerous electric and fuel cell test vehicles have proven their worth in field trials. We have demonstrated the technical feasibility of electromobility, the production of highly diverse vehicles is now...
03. July 2017
"Audi Vorsprung Award" - best lightweight concept 2017
There are no compromises when it comes to the finest sports car engineering. Technical precision and performance must be pushed to the limits – and beyond. Audi pioneered the use of aluminum in manufacturing car bodies. With fuel...
25. June 2017
Opel Style Award 2017 by Opel Design Center Germany
OPEL. THE FUTURE IS EVERYONE’S. To be a winning team several characteristics are required to set your team and your car apart from others. Team spirit, engagement, know-how, car performance and durability are probably the most...
21. June 2017
Become the Porsche Performance Innovation Award winner of 2017!
“In the beginning I looked around and could not find quite the car I dreamed of, so I decided to build it myself.” It was over 60 years ago that Ferry Porsche had his vision of the sports car of the future. A vision that has...
15. June 2017
BASF Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Award 2017
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...
29. May 2017
“Most Innovative Powertrain System” powered by MTU
As a leading supplier of diesel engines 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 pushing...
29. May 2017
Vehicle Shipping & Letter of Invitation (Visa)
Dear participants of FSG 2017, here are some important information and reminder for you: Vehicle ShippingAll teams that intend to have their car shipped to the Hockenheimring for FSG 2017 are kindly requested to take notice of...
22. May 2017
FSC, FSD, FSE Award “Best Prepared Car for Scrutineering”
Would you like to be the first team in the scrutineering order of the FSG 2018? If your answer is yes you should read the following announcement for the “Best prepared car for scrutineering” award carefully.As you know...
07. April 2017
FSG2017 Schedule published
The schedule for FSG 2017 is online! In order to integrate the new driverless class some time slots had to be adapted. So among others the team registration and scrutineering for the driverless class will already...
05. April 2017
Preliminary Spec Sheet of the FSG Data Logger published
Due to the lessons learned operating the now 6 year old Energy Meter and because of the addition of the FSD class, which demands a data logger, FSG has decided to develop a new FSG Data Logger integrating both functions. With...
18. March 2017
New website tool for creating the (C-)BOM is online!
We are pleased to introduce a new tool to the Formula Student community. All team captains are now able to create the (Costed) Bill of Material in their team area, regardless of whether their team is registered for the FSG...
09. March 2017
FSD & FSE: Autonomous & Electrical System Forms + 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 (ESF) are...
17. January 2017
Registration for FSG 2017 is completed
249 teams from all over the world participated in registration, a new record. 37 countries: Austria(5), Bangladesh(1), Belgium(1), Bulgaria(1), Canada(4), China(6), Croatia(2), Czech Republic(5), Denmark(1), Estonia(1),...
06. January 2017
Formula Student Germany 2016 - Special Publication
A compilation of the Formula Student Germany Event at Hockenheim 2016 has been published by ATZ, featuring FSG impressions as well as highlighting teams design concepts: https://goo.gl/qjrzLV
03. January 2017
Review: Formula Student Aerodynamics and CFD Workshop
In the last few weeks, the first workshop on aerodynamics and CFD organized by SimScale and Formula Student Germany e.V. took place. A new approach was chosen in order to interlink theory and practice and to provide all...
10. December 2016
The FSG Competition Handbook V1.0 is now online!
The FSG Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2017, identifying the key dates, deadlines and information required for the period leading up to the 2017 competition. It also gives...
30. November 2016
Formula Student Rules 2017 V1.1
As stated when publishing the updated "Aerodynamic devices" section, a fully revised version of the Rules 2017 is now published. All changes are based on feedback and Rules Tracker inquiries we received since the...
17. November 2016
Aerodynamic and CFD Workshop
SimScale and Formula Student Germany are joining forces to offer a free workshop series about the application of CFD in Formula Student. Participants will receive a hands-on, interactive introduction to the fundamentals of Race...
11. November 2016
With RIEDEL on air!
Sponsoring for 2 European teams with a total value of € 15,000
10. November 2016
The "Aerodynamic devices" section of the Rules 2017 was updated
As stated when publishing the Rules 2017, the intent is to keep the possibility of oversea competition participation. Based on the feedback we received, the "Aerodynamic devices" section was the only part of the...
27. October 2016
Rules 2017 v1.0
The first version of the rules for FSG2017 is now published: Rules2017_V1.0.pdf A lot of work has been done to generate a combined document, which simplifies things in many areas and updates others to the state-of-the-art....
29. September 2016
FSG 2016 Main Workshop at Bosch Engineering GmbH
The 2016 FSG Workshop will be held at Bosch Engineering GmbH in Abstatt on Saturday the 29th of October. The workshop offers support and information to teams (planning on) participating in Formula Student. Due to the fact that...
15. August 2016
Correction: FSE Efficiency Winner
Due to the fact that we wanted to start the award ceremony right on time the cross checking of the penalty system was still ongoing during the ceremony.We realized that the team Global Formula Racing was not the correct...
14. August 2016
Endurance is finished- 42 teams finished the race sucessfully
The last event is over - endurance is finished. 91 cars started to compete throughout the day in this highlight of the event , 42 cars finished the race successfully. As every year it was a very exciting...
14. August 2016
Congratulations to all winners - Award Ceremony Part 2
It’s been a long week on the Hockenheimring racetrack - hot weather and a lot of hard work. Finally, all the time spent by the teams on testing and optimizing the vehicles has paid off. It has been a very successful week...
14. August 2016
16 successful finishers in first part of Endurance event
So far, today's Endurance Event has seen 16 successful finishers. All morning the first 45 teams of Formula Student Germany 2016 have competed on the 22 km long racetrack to test the durability of their cars. The later...
14. August 2016
Endurance started!
On this final day of Formula Student Germany 2016 the Endurance event takes place.It is the last of the dynamic disciplines and probably the most exciting one.All cars that have passed the previous disciplines compete on the 22...
14. August 2016
FSG16 Endurance Running Order
The Running Order for Endurance is available now. Please see the attached document. The Endurance is divided in two sessions: Morning Session will take place between 08:30 - 13.00. Afternoon Session will take place between...
13. August 2016
Sportsmanship Award 2016: Please hand in nominations!
Don't forget about the Sportsmanship Award! Please hand in your nominations until 15:00 on Sunday at Event control!
13. August 2016
Overall Results Formula Student Driverless Concept Award
15 teams handed in concepts to suggest ideas and solutions for a possible driverless event at Formula Student Germany and participated in the Formula Student Driverless Concept Award. After thorough examination by the...
13. August 2016
VIP Reception 2016
Again, in 2016 FSG invited sponsors and other interested VIPs to a VIP reception at the BW Tower. Here, they all had the opportunity to learn more about the new Formula Student Driverless (FSD) competition, to talk to...
13. August 2016
Guided Tours 2016
As every year, we are happy to offer our popular Guided Tours to our sponsors, visitors and friends. Our tour guides are all former participants of FS events. Each has personal experience, thorough insights and detailed knowledge...
13. August 2016
Dynamics today: Acceleration and Autocross
After yesterday’s Award Ceremony Part I most static events are over and every team is now eager to do well during the dynamic events, which can be observed from the grand stands. First is Acceleration from 8:30-12:30. It takes...
13. August 2016
Congratulations to all winners - Award Ceremony Part 1
We congratulate all teams that have received their well deserved awards during Award Ceremony Part I on Friday. Your dedication, time and effort was well worth it. This marks the first part of Formula Student Germany this...
12. August 2016
HHN Racing need your help
Team HHN Racing reported an engine problem.Their engine: Husqvarna SMR 510, manufactured in 2008, has problems with the outlet valve (valve+valve wedge is broken).In case you have any knowledge on where to get...
12. August 2016
This year's combustion Engineering Design finalists are...
These are the 6 finalists for the FSC Engineering Design event. Uni Stuttgart (car 202)TU München (car 231)Seattle (car 269)Oxford (car 292)Hamburg UAS (car 369)Montreal McGill...
12. August 2016
FSG Award “Best Systems Engineering” powered by Schaeffler
A Formula Student car – independent of being a combustion or an electric one - is a complex system interacting with the driver and its subsystems also interacting with each other. Handling this complexity is one of the main tasks...
12. August 2016
FSC “Most Innovative Powertrain System” Award powered by MTU
As a leading supplier of diesel engines for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in powertrain design. For the “Most Innovative Powertrain System” Award the...
12. August 2016
BASF Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Award 2016
Why does BASF 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 of fibers, fiber...
12. August 2016
Daimler Special Award "Best E-Drive Packaging" 2016
Nine teams have competed in the finals for the special award "Best E-Drive Packaging", sponsored by Daimler. And the winner is TU Delft (Car 1). The second place goes to the team of ETH Zürich (Car 33), the...
12. August 2016
Porsche Performance Innovation Award 2016
5 teams competed in this years’ first Porsche special award at Formula Student Germany, „Porsche Performance Innovation Award“. The winner 2016 is UAS Deggendorf (car 44). Second place goes to UAS Zwickau (Car 96), third...
12. August 2016
Opel Style Award 2016 by Opel Design Center Germany
A very important part of success is always also the definition of an elaborated car design. Getting people’s attention to your product is something that can really help you. Each team has to merchandise their project to gain...
12. August 2016
Worldwide Formula Student Officials meeting
Once again, the representatives of Formula Student events from all over the world got together to discuss ideas and possible developments of these competitions. Delegates from Thailand, India, Japan, China, Germany, Hungary,...
12. August 2016
And the three FSC Business Plan finalists are…
Tonight the FSC Business Plan Presentation finals take place in the Marquee above Pits. The four finalists are (in order of final presentation): OSU Corvallis (Car 201)Uni Stuttgart (Car 202)Uni Paderborn (Car...
12. August 2016
Formula Student Electric Static Events results
After a whole day of presenting, evaluating and judging the results of yesterdays electric cars Cost and Business Plan Presentation events are now online. http://www.formulastudent.de/fse/2016/results/ The...
12. August 2016
Autonomous Driving at Formula Student Germany 2017
FSG once again leads the world of Formula Student with a new competition class, Formula Student Driverless (FSD)
12. August 2016
Watch FSG 2016 live
Again, everybody can follow the dynamic events on the Hockenheimring live on formulastudent.tv. Right now you can watch skidpad, the first dynamic discipline.
12. August 2016
Finally, the first dynamic event takes places today: Skidpad
Skidpad measures the cornering speed of the car. At Formula Student Germany, the cars perform the skid pad on a wet track, making it the Wet Pad. The Wet Pad guarantees similar track conditions for all teams, namely very wet. The...
12. August 2016
Formula Student Electric Design Finalists
The 2016 FSE Design Finalists are ...
12. August 2016
FSC static events take place today
Today we enter the second round of static events. This time it is the Formula Student Combustion teams turn to present the underlying concept of their race cars. During the day, FSC teams will present the technical solutions,...
12. August 2016
Successful second day of Scrutineering
On the second day of scrutineering 97 FSE and FSC teams were seen by the technical inspectors, 25 electric cars and 72 combustion cars. At the end of a long day, 30 FSC and 5 FSE teams successfully passed the complete...
11. August 2016
Congratulations to the four FSE Business Plan finalists 2016
Tonight the FSE Business Plan Presentation finals took place in the Marquee above Pits.
11. August 2016
Tough Day at FSE Statics
Today all FSE teams had to present the underlying concept of their cars to industry judges. The overall package counts. Technical solution, cost analysis and business plan - all three aspects are crucial to a team’s success. The...
11. August 2016
FSG 2016 Sportsmanship Award
As every year, there will be a Sportsmanship Award presented by the FSG Executive Committee. We would like to ask all teams to nominate a team they think should win the Sportsmanship Award. Deadline for nomination is Sunday...
11. August 2016
FSE Static Events take place today
Today, FSE static events Engineering Design, Cost Report and Business Plan Presentation take place. During the day, FSE teams will present the technical solutions, business cases as well as cost plans of their electric Formula...
11. August 2016
Guided Tours – Audio Guide
To friends or relatives of the participants who are still trying to understand where your friend/son/daughter/partner/brother has been for the past year: Come join us at the Information Counter in the FSG Forum where you can...
10. August 2016
Scrutineering Status
FSG 2016 Scrutineering started at 9.00 this morning where the fastest teams from the Scrutineering Quiz were some of the first to face the Scrutineers for the technical inspection. By the afternoon, a couple of teams had...
10. August 2016
Driverless – Competition before the Competition
The judging for the FS Driverless Competition before the Competition Concept Award is taking place in the BW-Tower all day today. The teams have to explain their concepts to a panel of judges. The teams with the...
10. August 2016
WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK!
Every participating team received a feedback form which should be handed in at the Event Control until Sunday 19:00. Additionally, we encourage you to fill out our online feedback...
10. August 2016
Special Award Schedules are published
The schedules for the special awards are online now. You can find the documents at the end of this document or on our scoring wall at the FSG forum. This year we are proud to present the following awards to the competitors of...
10. August 2016
Staging for panoramic picture
The staging for the panoramic picture and the picture takes place today from 13.00 to 14.00. We would like the teams to start to get ready at 12.30 in order to allow a flawless procedure. Please see details for the procedure:...
10. August 2016
Tire Handling: Clarification for Tire Marking of Event Tires
Following the unclear situation about utilisation and marking of the one dry and one wet tire set for the use during the dynamic events in FSG 2016 following rules apply in handling of it: Marking the tire/ rim combination can...
10. August 2016
Incident at Hotel in Hockenheim
Yesterday a battery pack of one of the registered teams for FSG 2016 caught fire in a hotel room in Hockenheim. The incident injured 4 of the team members that were treated in hospital. 3 were released later during the day...
10. August 2016
Wild Card for Accumulator Tent access extension
Each FSE-Team has the possibility to use a wild card to be able to work on their accumulator until 24:00 in stead of the usual 22:00 for one day. They can only use this possibility once. If a team wants to use their wild card,...
08. August 2016
Here we go again...
…FSG 2016 is on and we are ready to kick off this years' event! It's been a year since our 10th anniversary and we are excited to start a new decade with you. This morning our volunteers started setting up the event site to...
03. August 2016
NEW IN 2016: FSG ACADEMY ON SITE IN HOCKENHEIM
FSG Academy offers free workshops from sponsors to the students.
