Fórmula Student

The Competition

The Formula Student competition is, since 1998, the European competition of the Formula SAE which started in the United States in the 80’s. This competition defies students around the world to create a fictitious company that aims to develop a racing low cost, agile and quick racing car. The event, itself, it is a competition where universities and polytechnics around the world hope to get in to first place in the set of various static and dynamic tests. Currently the competition is divided into 3 classes: Class 2, Class 1 and Class 1A.

Class 2: This class is for any team that wishes to present their vehicle design in a virtual stage. The team has also the possibility to present the vehicle in the current stage of development, this may include as many manufactured parts and systems that have been developed and produced. Points are awarded for design, presentation and cost. Whilst Class 2 is a Class targeted for new teams in their first year of competition, Formula Student will welcome entries from Universities that are participating in Class 1 or Class 1A, if they are using Class 2 to give less experienced team members an opportunity to develop.

Class 1: This is for a fully assembled and running vehicle as defined by the FSAE rules ("first year vehicles"). Points are awarded for design, presentation, acceleration, skid pad, sprint ("Autocross" in FSAE rules), endurance and fuel economy, marketing and cost management.

Class 1A: This is similar to Class 1. However, teams are free to develop new and novel powertrain technologies that result in race cars with low carbon emissions as defined by the Class 1A rules. The static event just includes design and presentation, but the cost event is replaced by a sustainability event where the teams must determine the CO2 emissions and energy embodied in the vehicle. The team will also compete in the same dynamic events: acceleration, skid pad, sprint and endurance, as the Class 1 vehicles, so the performance of the cars can be compared. Therefore, this Class will be judged and scored separately from the Class 1 vehicles with a much greater emphasis on carbon emissions, measured during the endurance event.

News

We are proud to announce that "IPS Team" is going to participate for the first time in the Formula Student Competition held at Silverstone/UK by next July. Our team is very excited about the event, we aim to exceed people expectations and learn a lot with other teams.
We also thank the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal for their support, as all our sponsors and collaborators.

João Fonseca, January 29, 2010, 16:32