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

Here at Bosch Engineering GmbH you will find the best of two worlds for your electronic systems: individual solutions combined with the benefits of…

We invented the motorized vehicle and are passionate about the future of automotive engineering. Our Road to Emission-free Driving stands for our…

Vehicle shipping

All teams that intend to have their car shipped to the Hockenheimring for FSG 2011 are kindly requested to take notice of the document on vehicle…

Competition

In less than two months the sixth Formula Student Germany will take place at the Hockenheimring. Therefore, it may come as no surprise that the…

Testing Times

The first major event of the FSAE/FS season has passed with Oregon State/GFR winning the FSAE event at Michigan International Speedway a couple of…

One part of the cost event is the calculation of total vehicle cost. To do so every team has to sum up the costs of every single part on the car. In…

Competition

Attention all FSG student competitors:

Like in the last 2 years Henkel offers again a price for the Best Use of Adhesives. It starts to become a tradition and it seems to turn into a…

eCarTec Award

It was brought to our attention that the eCarTec Award 2011 is open for contenders. FSE Teams might be interested in participation.

The eCarTec is an…

Some FSE teams experienced difficulties with specifying the charging type and charging power of their car in the online form. All issues with the form…

The order of the scrutineering queue for FSG 2011 will be determined by means of a scrutineering quiz. The scrutineering quiz will take place on Monda…

Competition

Team member designation

With FSG 2011 just three months away, we would like to point out to you some minor modifications in the team member designation procedure for FSC and…

Competition

The FSG Executive Committee would like to point out the following: teams that need a letter of invitation in order to receive their Visa for FSG 2011,…

All teams that are registered for FSE2011 need to prepare an electrical safety form (ESF) for their car. The ESF must visualize the interconnection of…

The Education and Research Academy for Welding Technology Mannheim Ltd. (SLV) has been responsible for supporting the Formula Student Teams in welding…

It has been brought to our attention by one of our design judges that there is a very useful paper by prof. K.H. Bill on the complete layout and…

Competition

In order to facilitate teams better in preparing their Design Spec Sheet (DSS) an online DSS form has been introduced for FSG11. This form can be…

Competition

There have been a lot of questions about impact attenuator (IA) design regarding acceptance at FSG. We would like to elaborate on this below:

We accept…

Competition

All teams please take note of the following:
Attachment of the Impact Attenuator (IA) on the middle of the anti-intrusion plate, if supported…

FSE team project status

On January 17th the registration quiz for FSE 2011 was held. The outcome of this quiz was, that all available 30 slots were booked, with an additional…

In order to give engineering students a head start in the global automotive industry FISITA offers bursaries of up to €2000. The Student Travel…

Competition

All available registration slots for Formula Student Combustion and Formula Student Electric have been booked. This means 78 student-built cars for…

Competition

It was brought to our attention that one of the questions in yesterday’s early registration rules quiz for FSC 2011 could be answered in multiple…

Craig Dawson – Obituary

Our dear friend Craig Dawson passed away on December 30th. After two years of fighting against cancer he succumbed. He was only 29 years of age. Our…

Competition

On December 16th the registration deadlines for the 2011 FSC and FSE events were  announced:

  • FSC Early registration opens Monday January 10th, 12:00…

Pat’s final corner for 2010

Well, 2010 is almost finished, cold weather has spread over Europe and hopefully we have all been good little children and Santa Claus has been kind…

As promised there would be some Christmas gifts. Here is one of them:

Under the title “Fascination for bonding – Hightech solutions for extreme…

Competition

As promised there would be some Christmas gifts. Here is one of them:

The complete rules for FSG 2011 are now (finally) available online. The 2011…

Season's greetings!

Dear students, volunteers, judges, sponsors, fans and everybody interested in Formula Student Germany, the organizers of FSG wish you a relaxing and…

Competition

The registration websites for FSC and FSE 2011 are now available online. They contain all information you need for registering your team for FSC or…

In a recent email exchange with my fellow Chief Design Judge Steve Fox, the subject of ‘compliance’ came up. Steve wrote the following comment and it…

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2011 Registration

The Formula Student Germany 2011 event will be held on Tuesday 2nd to Sunday 7th August 2011 at the Hockenheimring, Germany. There will be 78 FSC…

The technical rules for FSE 2011 are now available online. They can be found under the rules section on the FSE website.

The 2011 FSE rules are a…

Engine Workshop

On December 4th the FS Academy will offer a workshop focusing on engine technology. The workshop will be open for all teams planning to participate in…

The yearly FSG workshop offering support and information to Formula Student teams participating in FSC and FSE will be held on the 20th of November at…

General

The VDI Gesellschaft Fahrzeug- und Verkehrstechnik (VDI-FVT) offers in conjunction with VDI Wissensforum a limited  amount of free congress tickets to…

Competition

With Formula Student Electric 2010 only a few weeks behind us, the preparations for FSE 2011 are already well under way.

In order to aid teams…

Competition

The FSG Executive Committee would like to apologize to TU Ilmenau. With 178.89 points the TU Ilmenau scored 2.94 higher than the TU Isfahan.

The…

And the winners are…

This year at Formula Student Germany there are not one, but two winners, an FSC and an FSE champion. The winners are the DUT Racing team of the TU…

Competition

First dynamics day

Today, the first dynamic events were held at Formula Student Germany in Hockenheim. In the morning, it began with the acceleration discipline, where…

Bernd Schneider, five-time winner of the DTM (Mercedes), enjoyed his stay at the Formula Student Germany event last year and is now up to another…

On Friday, the 6th August 2010, the Formula Student World Council came together for the very first time at the Hockenheimring. Representatives of all…

Today Formula Student 2010 started. At 8:30 in the morning the results of the scrutineering order quiz were published at the Ticket Centre. The lucky…

Competition

In order to facilitate the registration process on Wednesday August 4th all teams competing in Formula Student Germany 2010 are kindly requested to…

On Track for FSG 2010

Since Sunday evening, the foundations for this year's Formula Student Germany are being laid at Hockenheim.
Whilst Event Control looks almost ready for…

We at Bosch Engineering GmbH know the needs of the automotive industry and the engineering community. There is a growing demand for graduates who are…

Competition

The Event Handbooks for FSC and FSE with information for all participating teams are now available as pdf file. Teams are asked to read the handbook…