The beginning (2000/2001)

The DUT Racing Team was founded in the year 2000. Two Aerospace Engineering students took the initiative to build a car and take part in the Formula Student/FSAE competition. With 20 highly motivated students they set the goal to directly, in their first year, design and build a working car. Sponsors were contracted, books read and after a year of hard work, short before the UK event, the DUT01 was finished. Due to a lack of testing time, they encountered a lot of problems. Even though, they won the rookie runner up price for best newcomer!

The second year (2002)

Next year, new members joined and the new team of 40 students started building a new, more reliable and lighter car. Thanks to the first year experiences, this car could be built faster and better. It proved more reliable and the 16 place overall was not bad at all.

Subsequent years (2003 – 2008)

Every following year the team managed to build a new car. In 2003 the team decided to build drastically lighter cars. The DUT01 weighed about 300 kilograms; the new goal was beneath the 150! The result: a revolutionary 137 kilograms lightweight vehicle in 2003 and only 125 kilograms in 2004. The DUT Racing Team had built the lightest car of the competition! This didn’t go unnoticed and the team won the design award.

In 2005 and 2006 the “Delft Concept”, as the lightweight designs were called, was further developed, resulting in more reliable cars. 2006 finally brought the team the great success they’d hoped for, a third place in the German competition, and in 2007 a second place at the World Championship at the UK event!

In 2008 the car was powered by E85 bio-ethanol fuel for the first time, instead of the regular petrol used by most other teams. The DUT08 has achieved great results: again a 2^nd place at the FSUK event, twice the fuel-economy award at both FSUK and FSG and finally, the Championship Title in the overall ranking at the FSG Germany event!

Last year (2009)

Past season the team successfully applied a completely new design with a few big changes compared to the DUT08. Because of new rules the chassis and the monocoque were adjusted and the cockpit is enlarged. Also the ergonomics is improved and a control system for the electronic systems of the car is used.

With this car again great results are achieved. For the third consecutive time a 2^nd place at the FSUK event and twice the design award at both the FSUK and FSG.  Never before has a team won the Design event in England and in Germany in the same year. Furthermore at the FSG event the team won the fuel-economy event and for the first time in our history also the cost event!