Team Details

11 years of engineering „Made in Zwickau“ – „edgar“ is the twelfth racecar with its origins in the Westsaxon automotive city. The FP11.17e, or „edgar“ as we call him, is characterized by a four-wheel-drive and high-level safety features with our battery cooling system. As in the previous seasons we focused on building a reliable but also lightweight car. Thanks to whole body simulations we were able to revise our aerodynamic package and optimize it.

10 years of engineering „Made in Zwickau“ – our eleventh car goes back to the roots. Again we are using a four-wheel drive but there are also some brand new features: the four-wheel-steering and a battery cooling system. As in the previous seasons we focused on building a reliable but also lightweight car. Thanks to whole body simulations we were able to revise our aerodynamic package and optimize it. Hopefully our „eRnst“ can take up with the results from the previous years.

This season we build the sixth car with an electric drive. Our aim is to keep good German traditions like engineering and knowledge at a very high level to design a competitive and well-engineered race car made in Saxony! We rated a high efficient, lightweight concept with 4 steered wheels plus a big-sized energy storage with a high energy density, coupled with a well developed vehicle dynamics control program featuring a high efficient aerodynamic package.

"Innovation meets Tradition” - if you look at Zwickau’s automotive history you can easily find out why we picked out this slogan for our team. Zwickau is the birth place of Horch and Audi, and furthermore in the 1930s, it was the domicile of the Auto Union race cars which dominated the race tracks in Europe. Almost 70 years later our WHZ Racing Team was founded. Now in 2011, we bring our second full electric car to the tracks. The FP511e (code name: e.Gon) is a further development of last year’s successful car, concentrating on packaging, calibration and reliability. We created a fast and dynamic car with four independent motors and self-developed electronic components.Nowadays, our team consists of about 60 members from a variety of faculties of the UAS Zwickau. This team has worked hard and efficiently to upgrade its results for the season 2011. The FSE opens a door to a new dimension of racing - so let us all have fun and create the future together. www.whz-racingteam.de

Three years after the foundation of the WHZ Racing Team in Zwickau, we have picked up the new challenge of building a full electric race car for the Formula Student Electric. With our new founded WHZ Racing Team Electric, eleven team members combine experience with the zest for action. We all stick together as colleagues who share work and free-time as friends. The result is a completely new designed race car with four electric motors as a fast connection between high vehicle dynamics and innovative technology. The FP410e, a.k.a. “E-Horst” combines the knowledge of three Formula Student years in one car and will demonstrate that a full electric race car can be on a par with internal combustion cars. The Formula Student Electric opens a door to a new dimension of racing, so let us all have fun and create the future together in a fantastic event. See you in Hockenheim!