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Team on 08 July 2004
Student racers move into top gear
Formula Student 2004, the sold-out student racing competition, is in top gear for this weekend's event (9th-11th July) at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground, south of Leicester.
Formula Student 2004, the sold-out student racing competition, is in top gear for this weekend's event (9th-11th July) at Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome and Proving Ground, south of Leicester The competition, which requires engineering students to design and build a small single-seater racing car, will see 64 cars and over 80 teams compete from universities from across, Britain and Europe, North America, Australia, India, Japan, S Korea and Slovenia
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 17 Oct 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The university teams will test their cars' capabilities in a variety of events, including design, presentation, cost, acceleration, sprint, endurance and fuel economy.
As a key partner of the Formula Student competition, the IEE is awarding trophies for "Most effective use of electronics", "Best presentation" and "Best use of a website" to encourage and acknowledge excellence in engineering practice.
Teams must design and fabricate a high performance, low-cost prototype car that handles well, uses common parts and is safe, easy to maintain, reliable, comfortable and aesthetically pleasing.
Competition classes enable teams to use Formula Student as a progress learning exercise throughout a three or four-year academic course.
Classes range from full-scale entries (Class 1) and competitors from the previous year who have refined their prototype (Class 1 200), to partially completed vehicles for inspection (Class 2) and desktop studies (Class 3).
A full list of participating universities and a detailed programme are available on www.formulastudent.com.
Formula Student, in partnership with the IEE and the SAE, is organised by The Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
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