Team Details

Sapienza Corse Driverless

University	Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" IT Roma U Sapienza short 461
Location	Roma, Italy
Homepage	https://www.sapienzacorse.org/
Social Media
CV Team	Sapienza Corse
EV Team	Fast Charge
Short Link	tid.fsg.one/835

Team Description

Gajarda is the car of Sapienza Corse. It was first built in 2008 when a group of young students of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rome "La Sapienza" decided to apply theoretical notions to real problems, such as those of a racing car. It’s first event was in FSAE (Formula SAE) Italy 2008 held on the Fiorano race track.

In 2009 with the Gajarda the team took part in two different competitions: FSAE Italy (Varano de’ Melegari) and FSG (Formula Student Germany) (Hockenheimring), where the car finished for the first time the endurance event.

Even in the next year Gajarda competed in FSAE Italy and FSG earning respectively 15 positions and 31 positions in the event ranking since the past year.

The season in 2011 let us reach the 61th position in the world ranking, showing a great performance in FSG and FSAE Italy.

In 2012 we participated with Gajarda in FSA (Formula Student Austria), FSG and FSAE Italy with the first hybrid monocoque, with the front end in a carbon fibre monocoque and the rear with a tubular structure.

With Gajarda the team participated in FSG, FSAE Italy and FSS (Formula Student Spain), competing in the design finals in Barcelona with the first full carbon monocoque.

In 2014 even having the first aerodynamic package with front and rear wings the season was unlucky, missing FSG and attending only in FSAE Italy.

In 2015 we competed with the with the same car in FSG and FSS. The Gajarda AWD (All Wheel Drive) project started in the same season.

During the FSUK (Formula Student UK) in 2016 the project of Gajarda AWD, with an all wheel drive system and full aero package, was presented in Class 2 giving us the overall victory in the competition.

With hard work in 2017 the first Gajarda AWD was built giving us the fame of the only formula student team having an all-wheel drive car with a combustion engine in the competitions. Gajarda AWD competed in FSAE and FSG, where we won the MTU Most Innovative Powertrain Award.

In the next year Gajarda AWD competed in FSUK and FS EAST, winning the Bosch Best Engineered Brake System Award and the AMG HPP Best PWT Installation of IC Engine Award in FSUK. In 2018 the driverless project begun permitting us to compete the next year in the DV class.

2019 was a great season for Sapienza Corse. With the first ever driverless car with a combustion engine we competed against top teams in the DV class, placing 3rd in the Acceleration and Autocross events in FS EAST and winning the 1st overall in FSAE Italy. We closed the season 2019 competing in FSG placing 3rd in the Acceleration Event.

With a new team and more knowledge Sapienza Corse will try to make a better race car to compete in the next seasons!

Event Profile

Past Events

2021

Car #519

Info

Sapienza Corse Racing Team is the Combustion & Driverless Team of the University "La Sapienza". We compete in Formula Student events since 2008 when the first Gajarda was built. In 2016 the project of Gajarda AWD, with an all wheel drive system and full aero package, was presented, and built to race for the next season. On 2019 the car was converted to be a driverless car, giving the team successes during the racing season. As a team we like to get involved & overcome difficulties all together.

Engineering Design Priorities:

4WD with torque vectoring Self made CFRP wishbones Self made CFRP wheels Self made Dry Sump system DV with only cameras

Car Specifications

General

Frame Construction	CFRP Sandwich structure bottom case, CFRP Top closure and seat
Material	ET445 Twill Carbon Fibre, ER450 UD HM Carbon Fibre, Al Honeycomb, EA451 Adhesive
Overall Length (mm)	2960
Overall Width (mm)	1410
Overall Height (mm)	1164
Wheelbase (mm)	1550
Track Front (mm)	1200
Track Rear (mm)	1180
Weight Front (kg)	60
Weight Rear (kg)	85
Suspension	Double unequal lenght A-arm. Pull rod actuated horizontally oriented spring and dumper
Tyres	152x67 R10, Hoosier, LC0
Wheels	7x10, 11.5 mm offset, CFRP rim (177,8 mm)
Drive Type	H type All-wheel Drive
Differential	Open central differential, Two lateral open spur gear differentials
Cooling	382x370 mm radiator, 1310 cfm fan mounted to radiator backside, electrical water pump
Brake System	4-Disk system, self developed rotors with 220mm diameter, TiMotion - TA2P Linear Actuator
Electronics	Arm Cortex-M7 Processors, selfdesigned Live-Telemetry System

Powertrain

Engine	Honda CBR600 F4i
Bore (mm)	67
Stroke (mm)	42.5
Cylinders	4
Displacement (ccm)	599
Compression Ratio	12.7:1
Fuel System	EMU Black
Fuel	E85 ethanol
Max Power (kW)	10500
Max Torque (Nm)	8500

Driverless System

Processing Units	Intel Core i7 8550U
Processing Units FLOPS	21.40
Processing Units Power (W)	100
Cameras	2 pairs of stereocameras, range 16m, opening angle 108.16 degrees
Radar Sensors	n/a
LiDAR Sensors	n/a
Other Sensors	Accelerometer, Differential GPS
DV System Highlights	Track acquisition by only cameras with customized image processing algorithm. Intel IPP low-lever libraries based image processing. IMU and GPS data sensing.

2019

Car #519

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Car Specifications