All News
01. August 2018
FSG2018 Pre-inspection Procedure + Driver Egress Test
Pre-Inspection as a part of the Technical Inspection will be carried out in a tent in the area directly in front of Dynamic Gate g2. The Pre-Inspection will follow the "first come first serve" principle and is available...
31. July 2018
[UPDATE] FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award
Due to your feedback we decided together with our partner Siemens to re-open the upload area for FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award for all teams until Monday, 6th August 2018, 23:59 CEST. All teams are...
26. July 2018
FSG18 Business Plan Presentation Event - Deep Dive Topic
#FSG18 Business Plan Presentation Deep Dive Topics for FSC, FSD and FSE teams are available within the rules section on the FSG website from now on.
23. July 2018
FS Rules 2018 - Feedback Welcome
If you found errors, ambiguities or inconsistencies in the FS Rules 2018, we offer you the opportunity to provide feedback. Please note that only constructive criticism and ideally alternative wording proposals are ...
11. July 2018
Reminder: Limitations for Team Trucks
Due to the limited space in Hockenheim and to ensure a well-ordered build-up and tear-down of the pits, each team can use ONLY ONE vehicle, called the "team truck", to transport their competition vehicle and equipment. ...
06. July 2018
FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award
For the first time - at FSG ’18, Siemens PLM software is sponsoring the “FSG Siemens Digital Twin Engineering Excellence Award”, a 7.000 EUR award to recognize 2 teams which have used the most professional, innovative and...
03. July 2018
Daimler e-Drive Technology Award 2018: Apply now!
At Daimler, we are convinced: The future is electric. That is why we are setting the course for tomorrow today. We prove this with our brand for intelligent electric mobility: EQ – Electric Intelligence. However, there are still...
02. July 2018
BASF Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Award 2018
Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”? High performance plastics are a very sophisticated form of chemicals and have a large variety. They can contain different types...
15. May 2018
“Most Innovative Powertrain System” powered by MTU
As a leading supplier of diesel engines and systems for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in powertrain design. Each time our engineers tackle the task of...
02. May 2018
Win Tickets for „Dritev - Drivetrain for Vehicles“
The VDI awards tickets for the first 20 participants to the congress “Dritev - Drivetrain for Vehicles” from June 27-28, 2018 in Bonn, Germany. You are allowed to participate at the competition, if you are active FSG team member...
12. April 2018
FSG2018 ESF (Electrical System Form) Deadline
The ESF is now online and can be submitted. Due to some changes in the structure of the ESF forms the process of bringing them online and working took longer than expected. This inconvenience will be compensated by extending the...
02. April 2018
The updated FSG 2018 Competition Handbook is online!
The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2018, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important information about the competition itself. It has been updated in the following...
02. April 2018
Campsite Situation clarified for FSG2018
We’re happy to announce the availability of the C2 and C3 campgrounds next to the Hockenheimring providing proximity to the event ground for the Formula Student Germany 2018 event. Here you’ll find the campsite location...
12. March 2018
Advanced Concepts in CFD Workshop by SimScale
SimScale partners with Formula Student Germany to offer a free workshop on advanced CFD topics for Formula Student participants.
12. March 2018
FSD & FSE: Autonomous & Electrical Add Item Requests
The web-based forms for ASF Add Item Request (AAIR) & ESF Add Item Request (EAIR) are now available. Firstly, please check whether all items you need for your Autonomous System Form (ASF)/Electrical System Form...
13. February 2018
Win Tickets for „PIAE – Plastics in Automotive Engineering“
The VDI awards tickets for the first 5 participants to the congress “Plastics in Automotive Engineering” from March 14-15, 2018 in Mannheim, Germany. You are allowed to participate at the competition, if you are active FSG team...
26. January 2018
With Riedel on Air! [UPDATE 20180126]
Sponsoring for 2 European teams with a total value of € 15,000
22. January 2018
Registration Quiz: Updates of the Answers [UPDATE 20180122-2]
Dear all, due to some protests, we have made the following changes to the quiz results. Question 1 has been deleted and will not count for the registration time. Two variations of question 3 have been...
22. January 2018
Registration Quiz: Integrated waiting periods for fast teams
You should answer the questions as quickly as possible, but the questions will be available at the earliest at the following times. Question Time [hh:mm:ss] 1 13:00:00 CET2 13:05:00 CET3 13:10:00 CET4 13:15:00 CET5 13:20:00...
19. January 2018
New Type of Answers in the Quiz for FSG2018 on Monday
We have updated the quiz server today in order to allow the entry of numbers without multiple choice. Please note that you have to use the exact number format according to the question, all other formats will not be accepted as a...
11. January 2018
The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook V1.0 and test registration are online!
The FSG 2018 Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2018, identifying the key dates, deadlines and important information about the competition itself. It also gives details on...
24. December 2017
Updated Formula Student World Ranking Lists
Both Formula Student World Ranking Lists have been updated after the last competition of this season in Australia. You will find them on https://mazur-events.de/fs-world/. The year 2017 is successfully coming to an...
20. December 2017
New Mailing System @ FSG
FSG has switched the mailing system as of December 13th 2017. In practice this should not make a difference - all previously known addresses stay the same. However, we advise especially the teams to check and update their...
18. December 2017
Registration starts on 22th of January [UPDATE 20171220]
The team registration starts on 2018-01-22 13:00 CET and will take place in the form of a quiz. There will be one quiz for all three classes. The topic for the quiz is: Formula Student Rules 2018 (excluding the specific rules for...
06. December 2017
Driverless: EBS Reference Guide is finally released
We are happy to announce that the Emergency Brake System (EBS) Reference Guide, we presented on the FSG Workshop, is now available for download. It can be found in the Rules section: Important Documents for FSG 2018. This...
01. December 2017
SimScale and Formula Student Germany offers Free FEA Simulation Workshop
Aerodynamics and CFD are only one part of the equation when designing a Formula Student race car. Finite Element Analysis is another fast and convenient tool for approximating solutions to a variety of complicated engineering...
03. November 2017
Win Tickets for „Vehicle safety 2017“
The VDI awards tickets for the first 5 participants to the biggest branch meeting of security experts in the automotive industry – the congress “Vehicle safety 2017”.
25. October 2017
FSG Academy 2017 in Herzogenaurach: Slides & Videos are online
The yearly FSG academy event offering support and information to Formula Student teams was held on 21st October 2017 at Schaeffler in Herzogenaurach in cooperation with MathWorks. Over 300 students from 66 teams and 8 countries...
08. October 2017
Win Tickets for Electronics in vehicles - ELIV 2017
The VDI awards tickets for the first 10 participants to the most important branch meeting of electronic experts in the automotive industry - the VDI Congress "Electronics in vehicles - ELIV". The congress focuses on the...
02. October 2017
Rules 2018 v1.1 published
As planned, the Rules 2018 V1.1 including your feedback are now published. Changes to V1.0 can be easily found using the Changelog at the beginning of the document. As announced earlier, this document will not change anymore and...
18. September 2017
Rules 2018 v1.0 + Feedback Tracker
The first version of the rules for FSG2018 is now published: FS-Rules_2018_V1.0.pdf. While overall no substantial changes have been applied, a lot of detailed work has been done to clarify and simplify the document. Oversea...
09. September 2017
FSG 2017 Penalty Decisions and Updated Results including decisions regarding protests
Formula Student Germany would like to inform about changes within the results of #FSG2017 due to protests and feedbacks. Furthermore to make the results and decisions by the rules and scoring committee as transparent a...
06. September 2017
2018 Rules Schedule
Monday, 2017-09-18first version of 2018 rules will be published, this version is meant to be close to final. FSG forum opens to collect feedback until Sunday, 2017-09-24 13:00...
05. September 2017
Formula Student Aerodynamics and CFD Workshop
After last year's huge success, SimScale and Formula Student Germany are again joining forces to offer a revised edition of the free workshop series about the application of CFD in Formula Student. Participants will receive a...
13. August 2017
Award Ceremony Part 2 - Congratulations to all winners!
It’s been a long week on the Hockenheimring racetrack. Finally, all the time spent by the teams on testing and optimizing the vehicles has paid off. It has been a very successful week of competing and racing! We...
13. August 2017
Formula Student Driverless Round Table
All teams with serious interest to participate in Formula Student Driverless next year are invited to send one representative to the FSD Round Table at 18:30 (BW-Tower, 4th floor).
13. August 2017
FSG 2017 Endurance Running Order v2 ***Update***
A new running order for the Endurance event has been published. The former running order was created based on wrong data input regarding the lap times of the teams considered. The FSG team apologises for the inconvenience and...
12. August 2017
FSE 2017 Engineering Design Finalists
The FSE Engineering Design Event is the battle for the best designed and build Formula Student Electric car. Before the event each team uploaded a six page engineering design report as well as the technical specification of the...
11. August 2017
FSC 2017 Engineering Design Finalists
65 teams did compete in the FSC Engineering Design Event. Hundreds of pages were evaluated by the statics team and judges. Additionally a lot of discussions and presentation took place on Thursday. It was a thrilling event and we...
11. August 2017
Resumé of Day 4
The Driverless Dynamics kicked off on Thursday, with ETH Zurich successfully completing the first real lap of the Acceleration event. The rain was pouring, but this did not dampen the spirits as the crowds cheered at the...
11. August 2017
FSD: Updated track drive procedure
Based on the experiences from the first ever FSD dynamic events yesterday, we decided to update the procedure for todays track drive event as follows: Track drive is split into two sessions One run per session ...
10. August 2017
FSD2017 Trackdrive Running Order
The first Formula Student Driverless Trackdrive Running Order is available now. Details concerning the process will be explained during the Friday morning briefing. We are looking forward to a thrilling competition and wish all...
10. August 2017
Important Info for Morning Briefing
Please attend the morning briefing (8 a.m. CEST) with at least 1 ESO per team (Electric Vehicle), ASR has to attend as usual.
10. August 2017
Today's Team Briefing
The presentation of today's Team Briefing available for download now:
10. August 2017
Media Footage
...do you want to see some more photos? Check out the OFFICIAL FSG photos from the week so far under: http://media.formulastudent.de/FSG17
10. August 2017
Insulated tools to be used in charging/accumulator tent.
After a light incident with a battery cell shortcut in the charging tent (no person harmed or affected) we have decided to allow only iinsulated tools to be brought into the charging tent. Please make sure to sort any non...
10. August 2017
Update Driverless Dynamics
Contrary to the announcement in todays team briefing and the rules, there will be four runs per driverless vehicle for acceleration and skid pad. Run one and two have priority in the running order.
10. August 2017
Request from Commentators to Teams
For the coming race days the commentators would really like to have your input about any fun facts regarding your team. What's your car's name? Who are the drivers and what are their nicknames? Whose team helped you getting here?...
09. August 2017
Resumé of Day 3
Day 3 of Formula Student Germany and the teams are working hard to get their cars through the tough scrutineering in order to be able to compete in the dynamic events. A couple of driverless teams (2) have made it through and we...
09. August 2017
FSG! FSG!
Today we managed to bring 84 of the 114 Teams together for a giant photo overlooking the Formula Student Germany event site. It was a beautiful day and the teams were buzzing as they patiently waited for the 2017 Panoramic...
09. August 2017
Again a warm welcome to FSG 2017!
For those who could not participate: download the Team Welcome and the Team Briefing - Tuesday Presentation on https://www.formulastudent.de/fsg/rules/ Please note that all presentation will be published on the FSG...
08. August 2017
FSG17 Special Awards Finalists & Schedule
Special Awards are the battle for trophies within a defined field of engineering design. Each year our sponsors offer the opportunity to the teams to submit an application and present their unique concepts to the judges during...
08. August 2017
FSD17 Modified Statics Schedule for Saturday
Dear driverless teams participating at Formula Student Germany 2017,due to unforeseeable changes with the judge allocation and event site set-up we unfortunately had to realign the Saturdays Engineering Design & Cost Groups...
07. August 2017
White Competition T-Shirts
Due to space restrictions in Event Control, the White Competition T-Shirts that every Team Member receives will be handed out tomorrow (Tuesday 9th August) at 8.00pm outside Pit 2, before the Welcome Ceremony begins. Note to all...
05. August 2017
Update on the camping situation at the Hockenheim Ring
The FSG Team have been working together with the Hockenheim Ring and can confirm that the campsites C2, C3 and C4 have had multiple trees fall down as a result of the storm on Thursday night. The area will be checked on Monday,...
04. August 2017
FSG Academy on Site 2017
After the successful premiere in 2016, there will also be workshops at the FSG competition in 2017! These workshops will be offered to this years' participants by the sponsors of Formula Student Germany. They will give students...
03. August 2017
Important information about the campsite in Hockenheim
Due to the recent severe weather conditions, the Hockenheim Ring has unfortunately had to close the campsite opposite the track and the campsite on the other side of the Autobahn (campsites C2, C3 and C4)....
11. July 2017
FS Rules 2017 Feedback Welcome
If you found errors, ambiguities or inconsistencies in the FS Rules 2017, we offer you the opportunity to provide feedback. Please note that only constructive criticism and ideally alternative wording proposals are considered for...
11. July 2017
Formula Student Teams at Bosch Proving Ground Boxberg
On July the 8th Bosch opened it’s proving ground at Boxberg to 20 Formula Student teams in order to test their cars for the upcoming events such as Formula Student Germany in Hockenheim. The teams had the chance to get...
04. July 2017
Daimler Best E-Drive Packaging Award 2017: Apply now!
The future has begun: Numerous electric and fuel cell test vehicles have proven their worth in field trials. We have demonstrated the technical feasibility of electromobility, the production of highly diverse vehicles is now...
03. July 2017
"Audi Vorsprung Award" - best lightweight concept 2017
There are no compromises when it comes to the finest sports car engineering. Technical precision and performance must be pushed to the limits – and beyond. Audi pioneered the use of aluminum in manufacturing car bodies. With fuel...
25. June 2017
Opel Style Award 2017 by Opel Design Center Germany
OPEL. THE FUTURE IS EVERYONE’S. To be a winning team several characteristics are required to set your team and your car apart from others. Team spirit, engagement, know-how, car performance and durability are probably the most...
21. June 2017
Become the Porsche Performance Innovation Award winner of 2017!
“In the beginning I looked around and could not find quite the car I dreamed of, so I decided to build it myself.” It was over 60 years ago that Ferry Porsche had his vision of the sports car of the future. A vision that has...
15. June 2017
BASF Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Award 2017
Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”? High performance plastics are a very sophisticated form of chemicals and have a large variety. They can contain different types...
29. May 2017
“Most Innovative Powertrain System” powered by MTU
As a leading supplier of diesel engines for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in powertrain design. Each time our engineers tackle the task of pushing...
29. May 2017
Vehicle Shipping & Letter of Invitation (Visa)
Dear participants of FSG 2017, here are some important information and reminder for you: Vehicle ShippingAll teams that intend to have their car shipped to the Hockenheimring for FSG 2017 are kindly requested to take notice of...
22. May 2017
FSC, FSD, FSE Award “Best Prepared Car for Scrutineering”
Would you like to be the first team in the scrutineering order of the FSG 2018? If your answer is yes you should read the following announcement for the “Best prepared car for scrutineering” award carefully.As you know...
07. April 2017
FSG2017 Schedule published
The schedule for FSG 2017 is online! In order to integrate the new driverless class some time slots had to be adapted. So among others the team registration and scrutineering for the driverless class will already...
05. April 2017
Preliminary Spec Sheet of the FSG Data Logger published
Due to the lessons learned operating the now 6 year old Energy Meter and because of the addition of the FSD class, which demands a data logger, FSG has decided to develop a new FSG Data Logger integrating both functions. With...
18. March 2017
New website tool for creating the (C-)BOM is online!
We are pleased to introduce a new tool to the Formula Student community. All team captains are now able to create the (Costed) Bill of Material in their team area, regardless of whether their team is registered for the FSG...
09. March 2017
FSD & FSE: Autonomous & Electrical System Forms + Add Item Requests
The web-based forms for ASF Add Item Request (AAIR) & ESF Add Item Request (EAIR) are now available. Firstly, please check whether all items you need for your Autonomous System Form (ASF)/Electrical System Form (ESF) are...
17. January 2017
Registration for FSG 2017 is completed
249 teams from all over the world participated in registration, a new record. 37 countries: Austria(5), Bangladesh(1), Belgium(1), Bulgaria(1), Canada(4), China(6), Croatia(2), Czech Republic(5), Denmark(1), Estonia(1),...
06. January 2017
Formula Student Germany 2016 - Special Publication
A compilation of the Formula Student Germany Event at Hockenheim 2016 has been published by ATZ, featuring FSG impressions as well as highlighting teams design concepts: https://goo.gl/qjrzLV
03. January 2017
Review: Formula Student Aerodynamics and CFD Workshop
In the last few weeks, the first workshop on aerodynamics and CFD organized by SimScale and Formula Student Germany e.V. took place. A new approach was chosen in order to interlink theory and practice and to provide all...
10. December 2016
The FSG Competition Handbook V1.0 is now online!
The FSG Competition Handbook has been created to compliment the Formula Student Rules 2017, identifying the key dates, deadlines and information required for the period leading up to the 2017 competition. It also gives...
30. November 2016
Formula Student Rules 2017 V1.1
As stated when publishing the updated "Aerodynamic devices" section, a fully revised version of the Rules 2017 is now published. All changes are based on feedback and Rules Tracker inquiries we received since the...
17. November 2016
Aerodynamic and CFD Workshop
SimScale and Formula Student Germany are joining forces to offer a free workshop series about the application of CFD in Formula Student. Participants will receive a hands-on, interactive introduction to the fundamentals of Race...
11. November 2016
With RIEDEL on air!
Sponsoring for 2 European teams with a total value of € 15,000
10. November 2016
The "Aerodynamic devices" section of the Rules 2017 was updated
As stated when publishing the Rules 2017, the intent is to keep the possibility of oversea competition participation. Based on the feedback we received, the "Aerodynamic devices" section was the only part of the...
27. October 2016
Rules 2017 v1.0
The first version of the rules for FSG2017 is now published: Rules2017_V1.0.pdf A lot of work has been done to generate a combined document, which simplifies things in many areas and updates others to the state-of-the-art....
29. September 2016
FSG 2016 Main Workshop at Bosch Engineering GmbH
The 2016 FSG Workshop will be held at Bosch Engineering GmbH in Abstatt on Saturday the 29th of October. The workshop offers support and information to teams (planning on) participating in Formula Student. Due to the fact that...
15. August 2016
Correction: FSE Efficiency Winner
Due to the fact that we wanted to start the award ceremony right on time the cross checking of the penalty system was still ongoing during the ceremony.We realized that the team Global Formula Racing was not the correct...
14. August 2016
Endurance is finished- 42 teams finished the race sucessfully
The last event is over - endurance is finished. 91 cars started to compete throughout the day in this highlight of the event , 42 cars finished the race successfully. As every year it was a very exciting...
14. August 2016
Congratulations to all winners - Award Ceremony Part 2
It’s been a long week on the Hockenheimring racetrack - hot weather and a lot of hard work. Finally, all the time spent by the teams on testing and optimizing the vehicles has paid off. It has been a very successful week...
14. August 2016
16 successful finishers in first part of Endurance event
So far, today's Endurance Event has seen 16 successful finishers. All morning the first 45 teams of Formula Student Germany 2016 have competed on the 22 km long racetrack to test the durability of their cars. The later...
14. August 2016
Endurance started!
On this final day of Formula Student Germany 2016 the Endurance event takes place.It is the last of the dynamic disciplines and probably the most exciting one.All cars that have passed the previous disciplines compete on the 22...
14. August 2016
FSG16 Endurance Running Order
The Running Order for Endurance is available now. Please see the attached document. The Endurance is divided in two sessions: Morning Session will take place between 08:30 - 13.00. Afternoon Session will take place between...
13. August 2016
Sportsmanship Award 2016: Please hand in nominations!
Don't forget about the Sportsmanship Award! Please hand in your nominations until 15:00 on Sunday at Event control!
13. August 2016
Overall Results Formula Student Driverless Concept Award
15 teams handed in concepts to suggest ideas and solutions for a possible driverless event at Formula Student Germany and participated in the Formula Student Driverless Concept Award. After thorough examination by the...
13. August 2016
VIP Reception 2016
Again, in 2016 FSG invited sponsors and other interested VIPs to a VIP reception at the BW Tower. Here, they all had the opportunity to learn more about the new Formula Student Driverless (FSD) competition, to talk to...
13. August 2016
Guided Tours 2016
As every year, we are happy to offer our popular Guided Tours to our sponsors, visitors and friends. Our tour guides are all former participants of FS events. Each has personal experience, thorough insights and detailed knowledge...
13. August 2016
Dynamics today: Acceleration and Autocross
After yesterday’s Award Ceremony Part I most static events are over and every team is now eager to do well during the dynamic events, which can be observed from the grand stands. First is Acceleration from 8:30-12:30. It takes...
13. August 2016
Congratulations to all winners - Award Ceremony Part 1
We congratulate all teams that have received their well deserved awards during Award Ceremony Part I on Friday. Your dedication, time and effort was well worth it. This marks the first part of Formula Student Germany this...
12. August 2016
HHN Racing need your help
Team HHN Racing reported an engine problem.Their engine: Husqvarna SMR 510, manufactured in 2008, has problems with the outlet valve (valve+valve wedge is broken).In case you have any knowledge on where to get...
12. August 2016
This year's combustion Engineering Design finalists are...
These are the 6 finalists for the FSC Engineering Design event. Uni Stuttgart (car 202)TU München (car 231)Seattle (car 269)Oxford (car 292)Hamburg UAS (car 369)Montreal McGill...
12. August 2016
FSG Award “Best Systems Engineering” powered by Schaeffler
A Formula Student car – independent of being a combustion or an electric one - is a complex system interacting with the driver and its subsystems also interacting with each other. Handling this complexity is one of the main tasks...
12. August 2016
FSC “Most Innovative Powertrain System” Award powered by MTU
As a leading supplier of diesel engines for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in powertrain design. For the “Most Innovative Powertrain System” Award the...
12. August 2016
BASF Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics Award 2016
Why does BASF award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”? High performance plastics are a very sophisticated form of chemicals and have a large variety. They can contain different types of fibers, fiber...
12. August 2016
Daimler Special Award "Best E-Drive Packaging" 2016
Nine teams have competed in the finals for the special award "Best E-Drive Packaging", sponsored by Daimler. And the winner is TU Delft (Car 1). The second place goes to the team of ETH Zürich (Car 33), the...
12. August 2016
Porsche Performance Innovation Award 2016
5 teams competed in this years’ first Porsche special award at Formula Student Germany, „Porsche Performance Innovation Award“. The winner 2016 is UAS Deggendorf (car 44). Second place goes to UAS Zwickau (Car 96), third...
