Meanwhile, the new core team is busy prepairing the new team, make sure there is information transfer between the DUT10 and DUT11 team and a reorganisation of the workshop.
The interviews for new teammembers will take place in the upcoming days as well! Are you interested to become a teammember of the DUT Racing team but you did not make an appointment yet? Send a mail to recruitment@dutracing.nl!
During the last day of the Formula Student Germany competition 2010 we have performed excellent during the Endurance. The waiting was long, since we were scheduled in the last heat of 4 cars together with the teams of Ravensburg, Turin and Michigan. The times of these 4 teams were very close in the beginning of the race until out tires got warmed up. Every lap several tenths of a second the car became faster. Halfway, something unfortunately happened; Ravensburg retires because of braking problems. Delft kept going and times became faster.
The driver change was about to happen, when the tension of all team members rose to extreme levels. Would the starting relais fail again? Two minutes later, the car left the driver change area and the grand stands exploded. The second part went perfect as well, resulting in constant fast laptimes. It was obvious that the other teams were not able to set as fast times as we did. In the end, just like the Autocross, we won Endurance! This all was the fundament for a good result in Germany. Besides the price for the fastest car during Endurance, we also won the price for most Fuel efficient car of the field! This not only means our car is the fastest car on track, but we did this with the best fuel efficiency as well!
DUT Racing leaves Hockenheim with very good feelings after winning several awards and trophies and a perfect result of 1st Overall. The total trophy and award list:
- Winner Overall
- Winner Endurance
- Winner Autocross
- Winner Fuel Efficiency
- Winner Dynamics Overall
- Sportmanship Award
- “Lightweight Award” rewarded by Audi
- “Most Innovative Use of Electronics” Award, rewarded by Bosch
After the perfect result of the last 2 days, DUT Racing finished on the highest step on the podium: 1st! In first instance, we would like to thank TU Delft and all sponsors for supporting us.
It is still something to get used to, seeing the electric cars zooming around over the circuit, like this afternoon in which the Electric cars also performed their Autocross event. In the Autocross event every car gets two runs of two laps to set the best time. In the end eight electric cars where able to set a time and we were impressed to see that the times were very competitive when compared to the conventional combustion cars. After the electric cars it was time again for the conventional combustion cars. The best time set by an electric cars was the time of GreenTeam Stuttgart: 53,86. It was already called a time that could not be beaten by combustion cars. But the first one to beat that time was the team of Michigan and more cars followed. The new time-to-beat was the time set by Global Formula Racing: 52,46. After our first run we came to a time of 52,56, so pretty close. The time of GFR was not beaten until our second run, wherein we set the best lap time of 52,1! It turned out that is was also the best time of the day.
FSE Endurance
Today also there was the Endurance event of the Formula Student Electric. The organization turned it into a very nice night race which started at 10 o’clock in the afternoon. The track was lighted by enormous balloons filled with helium. The fact that the electric cars make nearly no noise and the beautifull light made this event nearly a romantic one which is very special for the Formula Student! To compensate for the lack of noise every team choose a song to be set at their laps, but we will not speak about their taste.
New photos are available in the FSG map on the site
Saturday afternoon. The Autocross has begun, but an awkward silence covers the event terrain. Only if you come closer to the track, you will hear some squeaking tires. The electric cars are the first to impress with their silent speed. Several quick laps later and the electrics have set some tough times to beat. We’ve just driven our first laps on Autocross resulting in a 3th place up until now!
This morning there has been some impressive action as well. Acceleration and Skidpad (cornering speed) took place. The most impressive result, the electric car from Stuttgart beat all combustion teams by 0.1 seconds with 3.89. Our own car had some bad luck on skidpad, as the car in front of us spilled oil on the track. We got a rerun, but the sand used to remove the oil proved to be even more slippery. More information soon!
UPDATE: we were able to set the fastest time on the Autocross event!
Tonight the first award ceremony took place at Hockenheim. Here the sponsor awards and some static events awards are presented. At first we want to announce that Delft got the Most Innovative Use of Electronics Award! rewarded by Bosch Engineering! This is really a big compliment for our electronics department and we want to congratulate them by this achievement!
With the Business Plan Presentation we are glad to announce that we finished 8th, our compliments for Arnold for this achievement!
Today also the static events Cost Analysis and Design Judging took place. The judges examine the car in the aspects of cost and off course in the aspects of the design. Special guest Bernd Schneider (5 times DTM champion) also took place in the car!
But unfortunately we are not in the Design Finals of FSG. At what place we really finished we will find out tomorrow.
So from tomorrow on we start with the dynamic events and we are really motivated to show on track that we still are racing for the first price in this event. Check the site for further updates!
