A team of students from the University of Stuttgart has beaten hundreds of other teams to win this year’s Formula Student competition.
Run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, it is the world’s largest student motor-sport event and challenges student engineers to design, build and race a single-seat racing car in one year.
The University of Stuttgart’s team — Rennteam Stuttgart — won, with second place going to Germany’s Karlsruhe University and third place to Austria’s TU Graz.
The top UK team was the University of Bath, in fourth place. Andrew Deakin, chairman of Formula Student, said: “Congratulations to the University of Stuttgart.
It’s been great to see an internal-combustion car win again. It brings to a close what has been an excellent event, with the highest number of cars completing scrutineering and getting through all the dynamic events.
The competition continues to improve every year, and I look forward to welcoming all the teams back in 2017.” The competition, now in its 19th year, took place at Silverstone 14-17 July.
The cars were judged on their speed, acceleration, handling and endurance in a series of time-trial races, while the teams were tested on their design, costing and business presentation skills. There were 156 teams in total this year, comprising more than 2,000 students from 34 countries.
Dozens of Formula Student alumni have progressed to Formula One, and hundreds more are now working at the world’s largest automotive firms, helping to design and engineer the cars of tomorrow.