Today we started with our notorious morning gymnastics session. Not bothered by the surprised looks of other teams, all teammembers enthusiastically started day three of the FSUK event. Some of our members had to be quick in order to get a good position in the scrutineering row, others could enjoy their free morning. Around 10 o’clock everybody had to gather in order to sign in for the event. After 4 hours of waiting, we could finally start the scrutineering. At six o’clock in the evening, just before the end of the day and whilst the English rain was falling, we completed the noise test and called it a day. Finally we were welcomed by the organization and day three was complete.

Here you can see a self-made movie of day 3:

Half past 5, day two of FSUK has started. Very few members of other teams are awake when our complete team is having breakfast. With two members celebrating their birthday and after an impressive entrance of the ‘old’ team members the evening before, everybody has a very high motivation, despite the early morning and lack of morning gymnastics. Our first goal of the day is to move everything from our current camp site to the official Formula Student camp site. Because of our truck, which needs a special location, we had to be very early and secure a good spot. After putting up our tents, installing all equipment and while building up our pit, a large part of the team went on a nice trip to the transport museum. And, finally, the team got its all important exercise.

Here you can see a self-made movie of day 1 & 2:

After an eleven hour trip we arrived at Silverstone for our first event this year. The journey started half past 5 this morning. The first few hours to the ferry at Dunkerque were without any problems thanks to good preparations and even better music. After some relaxation time at the harbor, the ferry departed at 10 o’clock. Thanks to the change in time zone we sailed within one hour to the British coast line. Here we continued towards Silverstone. Despite some trouble finding the correct location of the camp site, we arrived on schedule. As the official camp site is not open until tomorrow we had to set up our base on a neighboring camp site. Tomorrow morning everybody has to wake up early again, to break up and rebuild our headquarters at the right location.

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After nine months of designing, producing and testing our racecar is finally race worthy. Just in time, because we are now at the eve of the Formula Student Event on the Silverstone Circuit. Our competition is good, so it won’t be easy this year. But we have confidence that our team can bring our car to her max. Tuesday we will leave, Wednesday we will do the last preparations in England and Thursday our car will be scrutinized by the organization. After scruteneering, there are some judging events on Friday and then Saturday and Sunday we will race.

If there is anything we from DUT Racing can agree on, it is ‘engineering is fun’ (and that the DUT09 is very cool). And exactly this was part of the central theme of the 37th annual conference of the Société Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs (SEFI). During this 4 day conference in Rotterdam, we were present on behalf of the TU Delft, to show what we do to become better engineers and how much fun engineering actually can be.

The other part of the central theme was ‘attracting young people to engineering’. We as a team know everthing about that. Many interested people were keen to hear our story, to see how we manage to build hightech sustainable racecars and educate young teammembers. Some were amazed to see the technology and materials we apply. But above all, they saw our enthousiasm and dedication to engineering.