Formula Student Silverstone

[hamster100]

Hi all

The other weekend me & the misses visited Silverstone to watch our eldest sons University Formula Student team compete. It is a international competition held annually for engineering students to build a car and compete in a series of trials.There where teams from India, Sweden, Iceland and Poland just to name a few, but this year top honors went to Cardiff Uni, with Birmingham 2nd. There are different categories with internal combustion engines making up the largest, but there was a good selection of electric cars as well.

His Uni is Sheffield Hallam "SHUR", the team is made up of 1st years to Masters students who manage the team.Their car has a KTM 500cc bike engine and the students build the rest. This year they did really well and finished a very commendable 23rd out of 75.

Hope you like them

Doug

SHUR's car doing the brake test

IMG_4086 by Doug, on Flickr

IMG_4093 2 by Doug, on Flickr

The cockpit

IMG_4056 by Doug, on Flickr

In the garage

IMG_4516 by Doug, on Flickr

IMG_4522 by Doug, on Flickr

IMG_4531 by Doug, on Flickr

More to follow

 

[hamster100]

Just got around to adding a few more

Entry from Madrid

IMG_4061 by Doug, on Flickr

and an electric car from Newcastle

IMG_4046 by Doug, on Flickr

and Delhi

IMG_3943 by Doug, on Flickr

The winner from Cardiff (the next few were taken by my son)

IMG_5638 by Doug, on Flickr

and it didn't always go to plan!

IMG_5495 by Doug, on Flickr

IMG_5499 by Doug, on Flickr


This is a really great competition to see motor engineers of the future in action. Some really great cars and work by all the teams & a great day out.