ZF, a sponsor of our team, who also sponsors the Formula Student Germany event (FSG) decided to arrange an award ceremony for the team with the best design during FSG sponsored by ZF (Stuttgart) and the best ZF sponsored team at FSG. Because the DUT08 car was sponsored by ZF and won FSG, the team soon received an invitation to come pick up their prize at ZF’s R&D institute all the way in Friedrichshaven.
The Yamaha WR450 engine of DUT Racing had a great start of the year 2009. Valuable information was obtained by the team concerning (mainly) the cylinder head, which was achieved to due an exclusive cooperation between DUT Racing and two High Schools.
The past two weeks the registration for the UK and Germany events were at hand. First off was Germany. January 9 at 13:00 the early registration opened. Our team had the privilege of early registration because of our 5th postion in the World Ranking and the Overall Championship win last year in Hockenheim. The win last year gives us the right of starting with car number 1 for the upcoming event in August.
To decide once and for all which team is best worldwide without having an official overall ranking system, the FSG steering committee set up the FS World Ranking.
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