Here you can find more information about the 8 core team members of the DUT10 team, who keep everything up and running during the year. These testimonials are written at the start of the DUT10 year, so that’s around september 2009.

Team Manager: Lennart Scherp

Team Manager: Lennart Scherp

Team Manager of the DUTRacing Team. It sounds like a nice job… and it is! I am Lennart Scherp (20 years old) and I will try to fulfill this task the coming year. I am a third year Aerospace Engineering student, currently doing an open minor at the TU Delft. In this mi­nor I combined management and communication courses, which can help a lot this year. I hope to get a lot of experience with project and people management at the team, so it is a very good combination with my study.

Last year I was a proud member of the operations department, with as highlights the two events of us in the summer period (in Eng­land and Germany) and the Roll-Out of the DUT09 at the ‘Markt’ in Delft.

For this year I hope I can found a firm team and of course I will try to keep this team as motivated as possible. Also I will do my best to achieve our educational , continuity and ‘winning’ goals. We will do our best on the events to perform as good as last year or maybe even better!

Technical Manager & Finance Manager: Martijn Haring

Technical Manager & Finance Manager: Martijn Haring

Hi! I am one of only 2 guys who studies applied physics within the team. I am a 4th year student now, and although my study is extremely interest­ing, I really wanted to do a project which focuses more on the practical side. And what better project to think of than designing and building a race car. Besides that, what I really liked about DUT Racing, is that with­out any automotive courses at the university, the team managed to teach themselves and is still able to compete on a very high level.

Last year was my First year at DUT Racing. I was responsible for the theoretical side of the spring damper system. This meant a lot of reading, more reading and creating models. I found this difficult but really inter­esting and went on to become the race engineer during the assembly and testing stage. Trying to make the most out of our non-professional race drivers.

This year I am the technical manager in the team. It is my responsibility that at the first competition the car is finished and thoroughly tested. A lot of conversations with the chiefs will make sure that this goal is reached. Besides that I am also responsible for finance this year. I will make up the budget this year, make sure we adhere to it and will be the one who is angry when your ‘turfgeit’ account is negative.

Chief Suspension: Edwin Bakker

Chief Suspension: Edwin Bakker

My name is Edwin Bakker and I will be this years Chief Suspension. I am twenty years old and I am a third year Aerospace Engineering student.

My career in Formula Student started just one year ago, as a completely inexperienced inner wheels engineer; part of the suspension group. This mainly consists of designing the upright and the spindles. Next to designing the inner wheels, I also produced some parts myself and assembled it. When all parts were finished and assembled, the DUT09 was ready to be tested. This was my second job in the team; being one of the lucky drivers of the DUT09. At Silverstone and Hockenheim I drove both the acceleration and the skidpad.

Now that year has passed. Time to design, build, assemble and test our own new car. As the Chief Suspension, this year my focus is shifted more to a management task, from which I expect to learn at least as much as I learned last year. With at least the same amount of fun.

Chief Chassis: Joris Remijn

Chief Chassis: Joris Remijn

Hi, I am Joris Remijn, 22 years of age. I’m studying mechanical en­gineering at the TU Delft. I am now in my 4th year. Last year I de­cided to join the DUT Racing team to gain some experience in a large project.

I started in the chassis group where I did the ergonomics together with Anne van Schaijk. Ergonomics is about how the driver feels in the car. Our assignment was to decide the positions of for example the steering wheel and the pedal box. Also we did the design of the steering wheel and dashboard. In the second semester I started full­time on production. I helped producing a lot of chassis parts. At the end of the year we went to the events in England and Germany. On the events I was a mechanic, so I had to help checking the car and preparing for the races.

At the last event of the 09 I was asked to be in the core team of the DUT10 as the chief chassis. Of course I said yes, it is a onetime chance to gain a lot of valuable experience. It is like we are running a real company with 60 employees. With this “company” we are go­ing to build a winning car again this year!

Chief Powertrain: Arnoud van der Linden

Chief Powertrain: Arnoud van der Linden

I am Arnoud van der Linden, 22 years old and 5th year stu­dent mechanical engineering. This year I am the Chief Pow­ertrain of the DUT10. The semester of the previous year, I started designing the shifting system. In the second semester I got more involved in the team and helped producing parts of the whole powertrain. I got fascinated by the way that fuel is converted in the power to accelerate our car from 0 to 100 in 4 seconds.

After the successes in the events of England and Germany, I knew I wanted to continue with the powertrain. Inspired by the experience of the events, I will, together with other enthu­siastic students, build this year’s powertrain. Our challenge will be to end once again in the top, with the most fuel effi­cient car.

Chief Drivetrain: Jasper Coosemans

Chief Drivetrain: Jasper Coosemans

Hi! My name is Jasper Coosemans, I’m 19 years old and from Bel­gium. Currently, I am a third-year student at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering. This year, I will also be Chief Drivetrain at the DUT Racing Team.

I got to know the team a few months before I came to Delft, by see­ing someone in team clothing at an event at Spa-Francorchamps. I in­stantly checked the team’s website and joined the Training Team as a first-year student in the 2007-2008 year. The year after that, I worked together with Edwin Bakker to design the innerwheels of the DUT09. After this year of experience as a suspension engineer, I am now switching over to lead the drivetrain department.

This department, which used to be a part of the powertrain group last year, has been brought back to life in order to reduce the workload for the Chief Powertrain, so that both departments can get the attention they deserve. I am very eager to enter this challenge, and I’m sure I’ll learn a lot from it.

Chief Electronics: Tristan Timmermans

Chief Electronics: Tristan Timmermans

Last year I joined the electronics team to start working on the software for the data-acquisitioning and the dashboard system. Despite the unfinished result, I have good hopes for this year and will be putting all my effort into it.

For those who have not met me yet, my name is Tristan Tim­mermans and I will be chief electronics for the DUT10 team. Currently I am finishing my bachelor computer science, and the new D:DREAM minor made it possible to put more time into the DUT Racing team.

For me, DUT Racing is the ultimate combination to combine knowledge about hardware and software systems, and put them into an advanced piece of engineering. To make this happen, the electronics team is bigger than ever before and we have lots of challenges ahead of us. One of the many examples being; creating a working data-acquisition system for the DUT10.

Chief Engineer: Ivar te Kloeze

Chief Engineer: Ivar te Kloeze

My name is Ivar te Kloeze and I will be the Chief Engineer for this year. I have just finished my second year of the Aerospace Engineering bachelor. After my first year with lots of theory it was time to do something practical besides my study. This is when I met DUT Racing. Two members of the team were present at the faculty and convinced me of having a look at ‘t hok (the workshop). After joining the DUT08 team at FS Germany I was eager to start working on the DUT09.

Last year I was part of the Suspension department in which I designed the Spring Damper System. After the design period, production started in which I took my part by milling (CNC) and lathing parts.

As a Chief Engineer I will be responsible for the technical design. It’s my job to make sure all the departments are integrated into one design, the DUT10.

This year we are up for the challenge to retrieve our title in Germany!