Team Details

Global Formula Racing (DE)

Team Description

Global Formula Racing is the first innovative global collaboration of its kind in the history of both the US-based Formula SAE and EU-based Formula Student programs. The former BA Racing Team from the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg-Ravensburg (DHBW-R), Germany, and the Beaver Racing Team from Oregon State University (OSU) have combined forces to compete as a single entity. The two universities share physical and intellectual resources to create a highly competitive vehicle worthy of international reputation. THe team exist since 2010 and from 2011 on the team is building cars with electric and combustion Powertrain.
Design, manufacturing, and testing occurs at both schools. The collaboratively developed eGFR19, cGFR19 and dGFR19 design will be used to manufacture three cars — one with a combustian motor at the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, and the other one with an electric powertrain at the DHBW-R campus in Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Past Events

2019

Car #469

Info

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GFR was formed in the 2009 season from the two FS teams of Oregon State University and DHBW Ravensburg. Students from both schools work collaboratively to design, build and test two vehicles each year. Since then we have built one combustion and one electric car with shared chassis, aerodynamics and suspension packages. For the first time this year, GFR is competing with a third car in the Driverless category.

Engineering Design Priorities:

Reliability Simplicity High Downforce Lightweight NoDriverNoProblem TwoNationsOneTeam

Car Specifications

General

Frame Construction	CFRP/honeycomb monocoque
Material	Toray
Overall L	2865 mm
Overall W	1350 mm
Overall H	1190 mm
Wheelbase	1535 mm
Track (Fr)	1145 mm
Track (Rr)	1145 mm
Weight with 68kg driver (Fr)	79 kg
Weight with 68kg driver (Rr)	119 kg
Suspension	Unequal length non-parallel a-arms, direct actuated shock, coil spring, adjustable caster
Tyres (Fr / Rr)	6.0/18.0-10 Hoosier
Wheels (Fr / Rr)	7
Cooling	Water Cooled Inverter and Motor
Brake System	Pneumatic actuator which pulls the brake pedal
Electronics	MoTeC ADL3

Powertrain

Number of Motors	2
Motor Location	Dual Inboard Motors
Max Motor Power (per motor)	2*55kW kW
Motor Type	Brusa
Max Motor RPM (highest)	24000 rpm
Motor Controller	Brusa DMC514
Max System Voltage	403 V
Electrode Materials	LiCo2
Transmission Ratio (Primary)	10.6 : 1
Transmission Ratio (Secondary)	n/a : 1

Driverless System

Processing unit(s)	Core i7-8559U, 512-core Volta GPU with Tensor Cores
Floating Point Operations Per Second of all processing units that are working for the DV system	8562 GigaFLOPS
Power consumption of all processing units that are working for the DV system	58 W
Camera(s)	Basler dart
Radar sensor(s)	n/a
Lidar sensor(s)	Ouster OS1 64 Layer, 2048 samples
Other sensors	n/a