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Sorry TU Fast!

During the award ceremony the FSG Organisation made a terrible mistake. The award for third place in engineering design was handed over to the team of…

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Stuttgart is the winner of the Formula Student Germany 2009. Second and third prize go to the universities of Hatfield and Western Australia. 77 teams…

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The autocross

Yesterday in the early afternoon the Autocross took place which 68 of 77 teams have finished. Here the dynamic skills of the race cars are tested. The…

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Today the teams put their cars’ acceleration to the test (64 have finished). Fastest car to make the 75 meter distance was Kiel UAS, only a few…

The dynamic events

After finishing scrutineering and all static events, the first dynamic disciplines are held today.
At first there is Acceleration, followed by Skidpad…

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Today, all the static events took place, including the Business Plan Presentations, Cost Event and Engineering Design Event. The 77 teams presented as…

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…

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Scrutineering

Today as well as yesterday afternoon, the scrutineering of the first few cars took place. During the scruniteering process the cars are being checked…

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The Judging for the Best Suspension Award will take place on Saturday. The teams will be nominated by the Design Judges based on your Design Reports,…

From Wednesday, 5th August 2009, til Sunday, 9th August 2009, the fourth Formula Student Germany takes place on Hockenheim-Ring. This year 78 national…

The Event Handbook with information for all participating teams is now available as pdf file. Teams are asked to read the handbook carefully in…

There are no compromises when it comes to the finest sports car engineering. Technical precision and performance must be pushed to the limits – and…

The engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines that…

FSG is again offering the additional discipline Style Event. Prof. James Kelly, the Chair of Transportation Design at FH Pforzheim and Roberto Maronde…

Till today over 1200 add item requests have been completed. The committee is working on 350 more add item requests at the moment. Not all of them will…

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Waiting List updated

The deadline for SEF and IAD has expired on the 1st of May 2009. All registered teams uploaded the requested documents. Only 12 of the 39 teams of the…

Our friend and mentor ‘Stanny’ passed away peacefully on May 2nd after a short illness. He was 85 years of age and still driving competitively in…

I have never made any secret of my preference for space-frame chassis in FSG. This preference is not because of some nostalgic feeling, but for very…

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

Time for another column as we enter the Student Formula season, and the new Formula One season as the Brawn GP cars will start from the front row in…

FSG Cost Event

10 years ago, new cost rules have been developed. These rules gave the Cost Event a complete new shape and made it to a major part of the competition.…

Designing and calculating components with traditional materials and joining technologies is the standard in industry. Looking at bonding technologies…

General Competition

In January, 117 teams applied for the 78 starting grids – 39 of them are now on the waiting list.

We are aware of the great amount of work and…

Pat's Column - January

Well, 2009 is here and we are in the count-down to FSG in August.

As Birgit has already reported, the available registrations filled up within 8…

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Only 8 seconds (!) after opening regular registration all available places were booked. 38 German and 40 international teams from 19 nations have…

Just in time for the early registration of the Formula Student Germany 2009 the FS-World published the Formula Student world ranking.
Please see www.f…

General Competition

The countdown for the 4th Formula Student Germany from 5-9 August 2009 starts now! Early registration will be open from January 9, 2009. Regular…

Pat's Column - December

Well, the 2008 Formula year is finished. Last weekend saw the final event of the year, FSAE-Australasia.

Stuttgart dominated FSAE-A finishing with…

At 6th of December, the second Formula Student Germany workshop of the year took place at the EuroMold World fair in Frankfurt. The workshop aimed on…

On 6th December FS Academy will offer a new workshop for FSG participants that focuses on production methods in casting, composites and rapid…

At 8th of November, 354 students from 53 teams from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland attended the…

FSG Workshop at BMW in Munich

A workshop to support teams will be offered on 8th November 2008 by the Formula Student Germany at the BMW Research and Innovation Center (FIZ) in…

Tempus Fugit

Hello again.

Well, Summer vacation is over, the leaves are changing colour and the European FS season is finished. A new academic year has started…

Again in 2008 Bosch Engineering GmbH sponsored the “Best dynamometer performance award” and covered the expense of having a chassis dyno at the…

Picture Gallery is online

We engaged some photographers to save the impressions of FSG 2008 in pictures: Bernd Hanselmann, Frank Bramkamp, Ingo Reichmann, Kimmo Hirvonen,…

This year's Formula Student Germany Champion 2008 is the Technical University of Delft! The team from the Netherlands put the Technical University of…

Again Endurance was the last discipline this year. After 10 hours overall race time, 36 teams arrived on the finishing line and successfully completed…

Endurance has started

The last event of this year’s FSG, the Endurance, has just started. In this discipline, the teams proof acceleration, speed, handling, dynamics, fuel…

The autocross, the discipline which for the first time tests the dynamic skills of the race cars, took place in the afternoon.

In advance Bernd…

More results have been published by now. To show the transverse acceleration of the car, they have to drive the shape of an eight in the Skid Pad…

After finishing scrutineering and all static events, the first dynamic disciplines are held today. At first there is acceleration, followed by skidpad…

FSG presents a special highlight on Saturday. The DTM-drivers Bernd Schneider,  five times DTM champion with Mercedes-Benz, and Mike Rockenfeller have…

Today, all teams have competed in the static disciplines Business Plan Presentation, Cost Analysis Event and Engineering Design Event and could…

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The finalists for the additional award "Most Innovative Use of Electronics" powered by Bosch Engineering GmbH have been announced. On venue the list…

General

From 2009 onwards, the fuel consumption will be increased from a maximum of 50 points to a maximum of 100 points in the overall rating. As a result,…

On Wednesday and Thursday the teams have to present their cars at the Technical and Safety Inspection.
The cars are thoroughly examined in the…

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The finalists for two of the additional awards have been announced: for the Best Lightweight Concept Award powered by AUDI AG and for the Best…

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Today the Hockenheimring’s gates open yet again for the Formula Student Germany 2008. This year, teams from 19 nations participate to compete in…