Team Details

Global Formula Racing is an internationally collaborative team of students from the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg and Oregon State University. Each year the team designs two cars, a combustion car assembled at OSU and an electric car assembled at the DHBW-R. Students from both universities design, manufacture, test and compete with both cars.

Global Formula Racing is the first innovative global collaboration of its kind in the history of both, the US-based Formula SAE and the EU-based Formula Student programs. The former BA-Racing-Team from the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (DHBW-RV), and the Beaver Racing team from Oregon State University (OSU) have combined forces to compete as a single entity in 2010. The two universities since then share physical and intellectual resources to create a highly competitive vehicle worthy of international reputation. In 2011, we will reconfirm our successful season from 2010. This will be achieved by using the effective 2010 basis and build one car with a combustion drivetrain, and one car with an electric drivetrain. The combustion car will be manufactured and tested at the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon, USA and the electric powered car at the DHBW-RV, Friedrichshafen, Germany. Both cars will compete side by side.

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 will share physical and intellectual resources to create a highly competitive vehicle worthy of international reputation.Design, manufacturing, and testing will occur at both schools. The collaboratively developed GFR 2010 design will be used to manufacture two identical cars—one at the OSU campus in Corvallis, Oregon, USA, and the other at the DHBW-R campus in Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

„Ay caramba“ – That’s what a certain comic character might say looking at the all new BART08. Being the third racecar designed and manufactured in Ravensburg, once again major design and performance improvements could be realized. A tight schedule was applied, in order to hit the track long before the events, since testing knowledge and reliable driving skills can be the edge for the win.After the energetic appearance of the exhilarating cars body shell, the most eye-catching feature has to be the shiny aluminum rear frame, connected to the load bearing engine. Consistent use of carbon fibre and state of the art FEA tools throughout the package were a major goal to loose weight and still enhance the performance. The cars ambitious electronics include electro-pneumatic shifting, multifunctional steering wheel as well as real-time car data acquisition via WLAN to evaluate our cars performance. Considering the cars capabilities it’s now up to our drivers to finish Top 10.