Formula Student

Please discuss here all your remarks and pose your questions about all racing series, except Formula One. Both technical and other questions about GP2, Touring cars, IRL, LMS, ...
phantomfocus
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yes, I believe that duty must go to someone who is a student at that particular school.

MrT
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Some schools have professional drivers as student who are members of the team..... the good drivers show

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m3_lover
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Maybe the Stig has a kid that goes to college :lol:
Simon: Nils? You can close in now. Nils?
John McClane: [on the guard's phone] Attention! Attention! Nils is dead! I repeat, Nils is dead, ----head. So's his pal, and those four guys from the East German All-Stars, your boys at the bank? They're gonna be a little late.
Simon: [on the phone] John... in the back of the truck you're driving, there's $13 billon dollars worth in gold bullion. I wonder would a deal be out of the question?
John McClane: [on the phone] Yeah, I got a deal for you. Come out from that rock you're hiding under, and I'll drive this truck up your ass.

RacingManiac
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RMIT from Australia has a guy on their team(suspension leader I believe) who is also their fastest guy and before he became a university student he was National Karting champion or something rather.....the guy was quite fast....

I am definitely 100% oppose the ringer idea, as someone who spent his free time building a car you definitely do not want someone else who just drives to drive it. But it'll certainly help if the driver knows his way about a car.....so far I am quite happy as our drivers seems to be holding their own last time out.

Jersey Tom
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Big upsets at FSAE East this year..
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flynfrog
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we placed 7th this year (iowa state)

i can say that being a mechanical director on a top placing solar car team and a body director on a fsae both projects will help you get the job you want

and you will learn way more in these than in class

and if you are whining about money go fund raise

RacingManiac
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Jersey Tom wrote:Big upsets at FSAE East this year..
Best team did win......RMIT did well in all events, and won Enduro AND Fuel economy with their 337lb car.....

We at Toronto finished 10th, which is the best of any current team member(2000 team finished 8th....they are still gloating about it).

Onto Formula Student.......

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I wanted to see UWA win it. Cool guys, really slick well-built well-engineered car. But hey that's racing. Didn't actually hear what happened to their car.

RMIT did a fantastic job though and props to them. Colorado had a school-high finish of 22, we aim to be much more competitive next year.
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RacingManiac
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UWA I think was the one team that did not get any benefit from the smooth surface of the proving ground. In Australia I think because of their setup and the bumpy track, they were able to get like 3 sec a lap on everybody. But the benefit of their Kinetic system does not show that well on the smooth surface....


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flynfrog
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great pics



now where my car :cry:

RacingManiac
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flynfrog wrote:great pics



now where my car :cry:
what school? I might have it...

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flynfrog
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iowa state

black green and blue car number 15 i belive ethanol down the side

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Crabbia
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I'm at wits in south africa. We had a car a year ago, but the graduating guys that were in control of the project designed a rear end assembly that was tidy, could be removed easily and as light as mini me, but it was too light i guess. The struts holding the drive shaft started necking. Scary.
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