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To help teams getting started with DV technology FSG will organize a Driverless starters workshop. This workshop focuses on bringing the driverless…

313 teams participated in the FSG registration quiz. We analysed the logs and could not find any problematic questions nor technical problems.…

The FSG 2019 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2019, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important…

The SES, SESA and IAD Forms are now available in the important documents section. Please use these forms and included instructions for your document…

FSG is pushing the Driverless development even farther, while keeping all mechanical engineering development. Thereby we want to set a challenging…

Last Saturday, 300 students from 72 teams attended the FSG Academy kick-off event for FSG2019 at the ZF Forum in Friedrichshafen.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

#FSG18 is over. Seven hot days, three technical vehicle classes, thousands of participants and visitors made this Formula Student Germany amazing…

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…

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…

FSG Kube "Crashbox Award"

For more than 20 years Kube has been developing requirement-oriented solutions for safety-critical applications in automotive, aerospace and…

The second #FSG18 Statics Event Day comes to its end. Beside the FSE and FSD Engineering Design Finals, the FSC Business Plan Presentation final…

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…

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…

Based on FS Rule S3.8.2, Formula Student Germany will use different Engineering Design Scoring Categories during #FSG18. We have modified the scoring…

The Special Awards is a section in engineering design where the teams have the possibility to show and present some innovations they implemented in…

[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…

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…

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…

Due to your feedback we decided together with our partner Siemens to re-open the upload area for FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence…

#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.

If you found errors, ambiguities or inconsistencies in the FS Rules 2018, we offer you the opportunity to provide feedback. Please note that only …

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…

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…

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…

Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”?
High performance plastics are a very…

As a leading supplier of diesel engines and systems for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the…

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…

Competition 2018

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…

Competition 2018

The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2018, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important…

General Competition 2018

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…

SimScale partners with Formula Student Germany to offer a free workshop on advanced CFD topics for Formula Student participants.

Competition Formula Student Electric Formula Student Driverless 2018

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…

The VDI awards tickets for the first 5 participants to the congress “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” from March 14-15, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany.…

Sponsoring for 2 European teams with a total value of € 15,000

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…

You should answer the questions as quickly as possible, but the questions will be available at the earliest at the following times.

Question Time…

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…

2018 Competition

The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2018, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important…

2017 General

Both Formula Student World Ranking Lists have been updated after the last competition of this season in Australia. You will find them on https://maz…

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…

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…

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…

Aerodynamics and CFD are only one part of the equation when designing a Formula Student race car. Finite Element Analysis is another fast and…

The VDI awards tickets for the first 5 participants to the biggest branch meeting of security experts in the automotive industry – the congress…

The yearly FSG academy event offering support and information to Formula Student teams was held on 21st October 2017 at Schaeffler in Herzogenaurach…

The VDI awards tickets for the first 10 participants to the most important branch meeting of electronic experts in the automotive industry - the VDI…

Competition 2018

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…

2018 Competition

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…

Formula Student Germany would like to inform about changes within the results of #FSG2017 due to protests and feedbacks. Furthermore to make the…

Competition 2018

2018 Rules Schedule

Monday, 2017-09-18
first version of 2018 rules will be published, this version is meant to be close to final. FSG forum opens to collect feedback until…

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…

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.…

All teams with serious interest to participate in Formula Student Driverless next year are invited to send one representative to the FSD Round Table…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Formula Student Driverless 2017 Competition

Based on the experiences from the first ever FSD dynamic events yesterday, we decided to update the procedure for todays track drive event as…

The first Formula Student Driverless Trackdrive Running Order is available now. Details concerning the process will be explained during the Friday…

Competition 2017 General

Please attend the morning briefing (8 a.m. CEST) with at least 1 ESO per team (Electric Vehicle), ASR has to attend as usual.

Competition 2017

Today's Team Briefing

The presentation of today's Team Briefing available for download now:

Competition 2017 General

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 

Competition 2017 General

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…

2017 General Formula Student Driverless Competition

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…

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…

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…

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…

For those who could not participate: download the Team Welcome and the Team Briefing - Tuesday Presentation on <link fsg rules>www.formulastudent.de/fsg/rules&hellip;

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…

Dear driverless teams participating at Formula Student Germany 2017,

due to unforeseeable changes with the judge allocation and event site set-up we…

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…

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…

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'…

Due to the recent severe weather conditions, the Hockenheim Ring has unfortunately had to close the campsite opposite the track and the campsite on…

If you found errors, ambiguities or inconsistencies in the FS Rules 2017, we offer you the opportunity to provide feedback. Please note that only…

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…

The future has begun: Numerous electric and fuel cell test vehicles have proven their worth in field trials. We have demonstrated the technical…

Competition FSE Award FSC Award 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…

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…

“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…

Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”?

High performance plastics are a very…

As a leading supplier of diesel engines for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in…

Dear participants of FSG 2017, here are some important information and reminder for you:

Vehicle Shipping
All teams that intend to have their car…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Competition 2017 Formula Student Electric Formula Student Driverless

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…

249 teams from all over the world participated in registration, a new record. 37 countries: Austria(5), Bangladesh(1), Belgium(1), Bulgaria(1),…

A compilation of the Formula Student Germany Event at Hockenheim 2016 has been published by ATZ, featuring FSG impressions as well as highlighting…

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…

The FSG Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2017, identifying the key dates, deadlines and information…

Competition 2017

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…

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…

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