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International Design Competition - 18th to 24th of August 2025 in Hockenheim

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As a leading supplier of diesel engines for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in…

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Category: Competition

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…

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Category: General Competition

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).…

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Category: Competition

5 teams competed in this years’ first Porsche special award at Formula Student Germany, „Porsche Performance Innovation Award“.

 

The winner 2016 is

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Category: Competition

A very important part of success is always also the definition of an elaborated car design. Getting people’s attention to your product is something…

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Category: General

Once again, the representatives of Formula Student events from all over the world got together to discuss ideas and possible developments of these…

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Category: Competition FSC Award

Tonight the FSC Business Plan Presentation finals take place in the Marquee above Pits.

The four finalists are (in order of final presentation):

  • O…
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Category: Competition FSE Award

After a whole day of presenting, evaluating and judging the results of yesterdays electric cars Cost and Business Plan Presentation events are now…

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Category: Competition General

FSG once again leads the world of Formula Student with a new competition class, Formula Student Driverless (FSD)

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Category: General Competition

Again, everybody can follow the dynamic events on the Hockenheimring live on formulastudent.tv. Right now you can watch skidpad, the first dynamic…

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Category: Competition FSC Award

Skidpad measures the cornering speed of the car. At Formula Student Germany, the cars perform the skid pad on a wet track, making it the Wet Pad. The…

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Category: Competition FSE Award

The 2016 FSE Design Finalists are ...

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Category: Competition FSC Award

Today we enter the second round of static events. This time it is the Formula Student Combustion teams turn to present the underlying concept of their…

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Category: General Competition

On the second day of scrutineering 97 FSE and FSC teams were seen by the technical inspectors, 25 electric cars and 72 combustion cars.

At the end of…

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Category: Competition FSE Award

Tonight the FSE Business Plan Presentation finals took place in the Marquee above Pits.

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Category: Competition FSE Award

Today all FSE teams had to present the underlying concept of their cars to industry judges. The overall package counts. Technical solution, cost…

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As every year, there will be a Sportsmanship Award presented by the FSG Executive Committee. We would like to ask all teams to nominate a team they…

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Category: Competition

Today, FSE static events Engineering Design, Cost Report and Business Plan Presentation take place. During the day, FSE teams will present the…

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Category: General

To friends or relatives of the participants who are still trying to understand where your friend/son/daughter/partner/brother has been for the past…

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Category: Competition

FSG 2016 Scrutineering started at 9.00 this morning where the fastest teams from the Scrutineering Quiz were some of the first to face the…

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Category: Competition FSD Award

The judging for the FS Driverless Competition before the Competition Concept Award is taking place in the BW-Tower all day today. The teams have to…

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Category: General

Every participating team received a feedback form which should be handed in at the Event Control until Sunday 19:00. Additionally, we encourage you to…

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Category: Competition 2016 FSC Award FSE Award

The schedules for the special awards are online now. You can find the documents at the end of this document or on our scoring wall at the FSG forum.…

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Category: Competition 2016

The staging for the panoramic picture and the picture takes place today from 13.00 to 14.00. We would like the teams to start to get ready at 12.30 in…

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Following the unclear situation about utilisation and marking of the one dry and one wet tire set for the use during the dynamic events in FSG 2016…

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Category: General

Yesterday a battery pack of one of the registered teams for FSG 2016 caught fire in a hotel room in Hockenheim. The incident injured 4 of the team…

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Each FSE-Team has the possibility to use a wild card to be able to work on their accumulator until 24:00 in stead of the usual 22:00 for one day. They…

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Category: General

…FSG 2016 is on and we are ready to kick off this years' event!

It's been a year since our 10th anniversary and we are excited to start a new decade…

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Category: General Academy

FSG Academy offers free workshops from sponsors to the students.

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Category: Competition FSC Award FSE Award 2016

There are no compromises when it comes to the finest sports car engineering. Technical precision and performance must be pushed to the limits – and…

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Category: General 2016

Press Release from Magna: Opportunity to attract and recruit some of the brightest young engineers in the world.

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Category: General 2016

Can you imagine FSG16 without any pictures, timelapses, slowmotions or any aerial footage? Unthinkable right? Right!
!!!That’s why we need you!!! -…

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Category: Competition FSC Award FSE Award 2016

“In the beginning I looked around and could not find quite the car I dreamed of, so I decided to build it myself.” (Ferry Porsche)

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Friedrichshafen welcomed approximately 500 Formula Student participants from all over the world. "The Future is Electric" – Grotendorst, Head of the…

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The international trade fair ConCarExpo takes place for the first time on 29 and 30 June 2016 at the Messe Düsseldorf exhibition centre. As the event…

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Category: Competition 2016 FSC Award FSE Award

Engage the attention to your car! To be a winning team several characteristics are required to set your team and your car apart from others. Team…

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The Technical Inspection Sheets are now available in the important documents sections of both FSC&FSE.

Use these documents for your own advantage and…

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Category: Competition 2016 FSE Award

The future has begun: Numerous electric and fuel cell test vehicles have proven their worth in field trials. We have demonstrated the technical…

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Category: Competition 2016 FSC Award FSE Award

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…

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Category: Competition 2016 FSC Award

As a leading supplier of diesel engines for marine propulsion and off-highway applications, MTU is particularly committed to setting the benchmark in…

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Category: Competition 2016 FSC Award FSE Award

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…

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Category: Competition 2016

Dear participants of FSG 2016, here are some important information and reminder for you:

Vehicle Shipping
All teams that intend to have their car…

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Category: 2016 FSC Award FSE Award Competition

Would you like to be the first team in the scrutineering order of the FSG 2017 without any quiz? If your answer is yes you should read the following…

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Category: Competition 2016 Registration

The order of the scrutineering queue for FSG 2016 will be determined by means of a scrutineering quiz like in the previous years. The scrutineering…

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Category: Competition 2016

For your better preparation of the Business Plan Presentation Event we have published the main categories and points of the judge evaluation sheet in…

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Category: Competition FSD Award 2016

After an overwhelming number of applications, the FSG officials are happy to invite 16 teams with the most promising abstracts to participate in the…

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Category: Competition 2016

Dear Formula Student Electric Teams,

The web-based forms for ESF Add Item Request (EAIR) are now available. This year we have deleted “Sensors” and…

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Category: Competition 2016

Please take a look at the updated FSG rules and the new SES approval form for monocoques in the rules section. You will find all changes in the…

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Category: Competition FSD Award 2016

31 applicants for Formula Student Driverless Concept Award 2016

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Category: Pat´s Corner 2016

I have just returned from Formula Student India, where the importance of re-covering the basics became obvious. We forget the churn of students…

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Category: Competition FSG Award Formula Student Driverless

As you have already heard, Formula Student Germany grants a special award for driverless competition concepts for the 2016 event.

The winners will be…

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247 teams from all over the world (39 countries) participated in registration, a new record!

 

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Dear teams and interested students,

as announced previously, the Formula Student Germany grants a special award for driverless competition concepts…

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Category: 2016 Competition

Dear teams,

early registration for the FSG 2016 event starts in two weeks on January 18th 2016, 1200 CET. Main registration starts on January 25th…

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Category: General

Dear sponsors, judges, team members, officials and friends!

It is this time of the year again. An exciting and busy 2015 comes to an end. We wish you…

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Category: Competition

The rules set for year 2016 have been published in the rules section.

The new rules represent adjustments that are results of the feedback and the…

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The Formula Student Germany team has announced a special award for driverless concepts at last months FSG workshop at Daimler AG in Sindelfingen on…

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Category: 2015 Academy

The 2015 FSG Workshop will be held at Daimler AG in Sindelfingen on Saturday the 24th of October. The workshop offers support and information to teams…

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As we celebrated our 10th Anniversary this year we were overwhelmed by all the good wishes we received from every single one of you. Thank you!!!

Par…

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Category: General Competition 2015

... the team with car E85 from TU Delft for the Formula Student Electric (FSE) class and the team with car 1 from Oregon State University/Ravensburg

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Category: General Competition 2015

So far todays Endurance Event sees 19 successful finishers. All morning the first 60 teams of Formula Student Germany 2015 have competed on the 22KM…

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For the first time participants, visitors and guest have the opportunity to purchase Formula Student Germany Souvenirs. All merchandising is displayed…

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Category: General Competition 2015

On this final day of Formula Student Germany 2015 the Endurance event takes place.
It is the last of the dynamic disciplines and probably the most…

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Category: General Competition 2015

The running order for todays Endurance Event is published. The order was determined by the cars results in yesterdays Autocross Event.

Please all…

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Category: General Competition 2015

On the fourth day of Formula Student Germany the static events are over, and the first dynamic events have been completed. All current results are…

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Everybody at FSG watched today when the customized concept vehicles built by sponsors with the help of participating teams competed on the famous…

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The end of todays dynamic autocross event will be extended by 7 minutes due to an incident that requested the fire engine to enter the dynamic area.

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Category: General 2015

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…

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Category: General Competition 2015

After yesterday’s Award Ceremony Part 1 most static events are over and every team is now eager to do well during the dynamic events, which can be…

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Charlie Klein, Vice President Vehicle Engineering, Europe, and Member of the Board of Adam Opel AG, handed over the keys of an Opel Adam S to the team…

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Today, FSG dynamic officials experienced an unusual amount of debriefing of team members AFTER the official driver briefing took place in the morning.…

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Six teams have entered the final round of the Formula Student Combustion (FSC) Engineering design award.

The teams are: Car 41 TU Munich, Car 15…

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Category: Competition 2015

Congratulations to all winners - the first prizes of FSG 2015 have been awarded during tonights Award Ceremony Part 1.

We congratulate all teams…

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Category: General 2015

With the Polo WRC showcar, Volkswagen brings along a masterpiece of engineering and innovation to the Hockenheimring this year, but this is not all…

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Category: General 2015

Once again, the representatives of Formula Student events from all over the world got together to discuss ideas and possible developments of these…

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Category: General Competition 2015

Tonight the FSC Business Plan Presentation finals take place in the Marquee above Pits. The three finalists are (in order of final presentation):

16…

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Brake Test will be prolongued until 7.30 pm, Test Area will be open until 8.00 pm.

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Category: FSG Award Competition 2015

Participating sponsors are requested to show on Saturday morning for a full drivers briefing at 9.30 in the Marquee above Pits. 

The acceleration…

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Category: General 2015

Again, everybody can follow the dynamic events on the Hockenheimring live on formulastudent.tv .
Right now you can watch skidpad, the first dynamic…

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Category: General FSG Award 2015

For the first time Schaeffler submits the Special Award “Best Wheel Hub Drive”.

This years’ teams are E013 UAS Munich, E014 TU Dresden, E026…

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Category: Competition FSG Award 2015

Eight teams compete in the finals for the special award "Best E-Drive Packaging", sponsored by Daimler. 

This years’ teams are E096 UAS Zwickau, E085…

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Category: Competition FSG Award 2015

Six teams compete in the finals for the special award "Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastic", sponsored by BASF. 

This years’ teams are C076 Munich…

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Category: General Competition 2015

Skidpad measures the cornering speed of the car. At Formula Student Germany, the cars perform the skid pad on a wet track, making it the Wet Pad. The…

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Category: Competition General 2015

After a whole day of presenting, evaluating and judging you can now find the results of the yesterdays Electric cars Cost and Business Plan…

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Category: General Competition 2015

Today we enter the second round of static events. This time it is the Formula Student Combustion teams turn to present the underlying concept of their…

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Category: General Competition 2015

On the second day of scrutineering 95 FSE and FSC teams were seen by the technical inspectors, 38 electric cars and 57 combustion cars.

At the end of…

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Category: General Competition 2015

Today all FSE teams had to present the underlying concept of their cars to industry judges. The overall package counts. Technical solution, cost…

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Category: General Competition 2015

The cars who have successfully passed scrutineering are now allowed to test their cars on the racetrack.

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Category: Competition 2015

Tonight at 7:00 pm the FSE Business Plan Presentation finals take place in the Marquee above Pits.
The three finalists are (in order of final…

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Category: General Competition FSG Award 2015

The five finalists for the Opel Style Award at FSG 2015 are E007 DHBW Stuttgart, E042 TU Darmstadt, E069 UAS Augsburg, C062 OTH Regensburg, C074 TU…

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Category: Competition FSG Award 2015

Four teams compete in the finals for the special award "Most Innovative Powertrain", sponsored by MTU. 

This years teams are C074 TU Brno, C062 OTH…

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Category: Competition FSG Award General 2015

As every year, there will be a Sportsmanship Award presented by the FSG Executive Committee. We would like to ask all teams to nominate a team they…

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The wording and the drawing of rule IC 2.6.1 are not matching perfectly.

For that reason from now on the handling of the rule at FSG scrutineering…

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From now on you have the possibility to check out the most emotional moments of the first days of Formula Student Germany 2015! 

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Category: Competition 2015

Today, FSE static events Engineering Design, Cost Report and Business Plan Presentation take place. During the day, FSE teams will present the…

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Today all cars start the scrutineering to determine their technical safety before being allowed to participate in the dynamic events. A very nerve…

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Category: General

In its 10th year, 3600 students from all around the globe participate in Formula Student Germany. The 110 teams will compete in dynamic and static…

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Visit our own Hall of Fame and experience the amazing development of the student cars and their innovations over the last 10 years. 12 of 15 winning…

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Category: General

Every day we compile an overview of the days events, including interviews with officials, judges and participants as well as fun stories that happened…

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Give your feedback to further improve Formula Student Germany.
You can help us to improve Formula Student Germany!
As every year, we ask all…

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