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The team of the Formula Student Germany tends to do things a bit different than others. Are you never satisfied and always striving for the best? Do…

Dear Formula Student teams,

From 31 May through 8 June, 2014, Leipzig will once again become the major meeting point for the international automotive…

The first milestone in this year´s FSG competition has been taken: the registration quiz. On January, the 13th, an amazing number of 202 teams from…

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

The 2013 FS year gets to an end as well as the calendar year does. In a few days we will see…

On Monday January 13^th the registration for both FSC 2014 and FSE 2014 will open. One week in advance the early registration will open on Monday…

Racing enthusiast, colleagues, friends,

MathWorks is pleased to announce that we will sponsor Formula Student Germany in 2014. Please see the support…

Hello Formula Student teams,

MathWorks invites you to participate in the MATLAB & Simulink Racing Lounge. This is a live online series featuring…

The upcoming career event careers4engineers automotive features several interesting topics addressing Formula Student teams. In a round table meeting…

Autodesk supports Formula Student teams around the world with free full version industry recognized software and cloud computing services. Any Formula…

The Education and Research Academy for Welding Technology Mannheim Ltd. (SLV) has been responsible for supporting the Formula Student Teams in welding…

The 2013 FSG workshop will be held at the Bosch Engineering facility in Abstatt on Saturday the 2^nd of November. The workshop offers support and…

The winners of Formula Student 2013 are OSU Corvallis, Global Formula Racing, car 11, for Formula Student Combustion and TU Delft, DUT Racing, car E1,…

Tonight the Award Ceremony Part 2 will take place in the Marquee Above Pits. The Award Ceremony Part 2 can also be followed via the live stream.

Afte…

The FSG 2013 Endurance Event is over. We had a very exciting endurance finale, now it is waiting for the overall results to come in. In the mean time…

On this final day of Formula Student Germany 2013 the Endurance event takes place. It is the last of the dynamic disciplines and probably the most…

The results of the Autocross Event 2013 without top five are known.

• click here for FSC results
• click here for FSE results

This qualifying determines…

All cars and drivers did a great job on the famous Hockenheimring start-finish straight.

These are the results, the order of the top five teams is…

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…

Today’s Autocross event will be closed at 19.00 sharp instead of 18.30.

FSC Design finals start at 19.15 instead of 19.00 in the FSG forum.

Meet Pat in his corner @recreation.area in the FSG forum

Saturday 14.00 – 17.00

Sunday 10.00 – 12.00 and 14.00 – 16.00

Today the dynamic events Acceleration and Autocross for both electric and combustion cars will take place.

The Acceleration event will start this…

The finalists for FSC Design Event are

• Car 5 Rochester IT
• Car 3 University Göteborg
• Car 7 ETS Montreal
• Car 30 KIT Karlsruhe
• Car 73 University…

Today, scrutineering on request is offered. All teams that did not pass scrutineering yet, as well as all teams that have not yet presented their car…

Last night, the Award Ceremony Part 1 took place.

And the winners are

The three finalists for FSC Business Plan Presentation are

• Göteborg
• Rochester
• Corvallis

Tonight, they have presented their Business Plans to the…

The four finalists for FSE Design Event are

• Uni Stuttgart E26
• ETH Zürich E33
• UAS Zwickau E96
• KIT Karlsruhe E121

Tonight, they will present their…

Today promises to be the hottest day at Formula Student Germany 2013.
We can’t stop the heat, but help you cool down.

Two snowguns in front of the…

As in previous years, again this year we are offering a live stream for all those who cannot join us here on site at the Hockenheim Ring. The live…

As introduced for the first time in 2011, FSE and FSC cars perform the skid pad on a wet track, making it the Wet Pad. The Wet Pad guarantees all…

Friday 5^th August the FSC Statics will take place:

• Engineering Design
• Cost Analysis
• Business Plan Presentation

At the end of the day the three…

Tonight the FSE Business Plan Presentation Finals took place in the Marquee Above Pits. Here the finalists had to present their Business Plans to the…

Today, FSE static events Engineering Design, Cost Report and Business Plan Presentation take place. During the day, 40 FSE teams will present the…

Help us to improve Formula Student Germany!

As every year, we ask all participants to suggest improvements and changes.
Feedback forms are available…

During yesterday’s first day of scrutineering judges and students alike did a great job.

Altogether, 46 FSE and FSC teams were seen by the judges. 19…

High performance plastics are a very sophisticated form of chemicals
and have a large variety. They can contain different types of fibers,
fiber…

Here at Bosch Engineering GmbH you will find the best of two worlds for
your electronic systems: individual solutions combined with the benefits
of…

We invented the motorized vehicle and are passionate about the future
of automotive engineering. Our Road to Emission-free Driving stands for
our…

Congratulations to the team of DHBW Stuttgart to be the first to pass e-scrutineering.

Now the team can enter the normal scrutineering. And only…

Yesterday’s welcome ceremony officially started this years’ FSG event on the famous Hockenheimring.
114 teams from all over the world with 3000…

Like in the past Henkel will offer again a price for the Best Use of
Adhesives. It was and for sure it will be again a competition
demonstrating the…

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

FSG will award a prize for the best team's FSG video. Be creative: the kind of video is not set, as long as it is about your team participating…

DEKRA offers again a workshop on the handling of high voltage (HV) systems on board of road vehicles.  The workshop will be held on June 5^th from 9:00…

We invented the motorized vehicle and are passionate about the future of automotive engineering. Our Road to Emission-free Driving stands for our…

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

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

The order of the scrutineering queue for FSG 2013 will be determined by means of a scrutineering quiz like in the previous three years. The…

The rules defining the 2013 FSC and FSE Cost Report, rules section 2.6, have been updated, as announced in the first release of the rules. The update…

The 2013 Electrical Safety Form (ESF) consists of 12 separate documents. The ESF has been divided over multiple documents to make the review process…

In any racing event, safety is of key importance. DEKRA is one of the world’s leading expert organisations and Technical Partner of Formula Student…

Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award a prize for the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”?

High performance plastics are a very…

VDI (Verein Deutscher Ingenieure/Association of German Engineers) has been co-founding, supporting and sponsoring Formula Student Germany since its…

MathWorks is offering a two-day, online Simulink training specifically designed for Formula Student Germany teams on April 23, 2013. Please follow the…

Yesterday's news, that the 2015 Formula Student Germany event would only be open to electric cars was an April Fools joke. FSC Teams do not need to…

The organizers of FSG have decided that the 2015 FSG event will be open to electric vehicles only. The decision has been taken based on the huge…

The Structural Equivalency Spreadsheet template has been updated to version 1.1. All teams participating in FSG2013 are required to use Version 1.1;…

In my life before Formula Student I was responsible for the technical area of CIK Karting, so I still maintain a passing interest in that sport. So…

Intelligent and high performing connection technology forms the foundation of industrial application and manufacturing technologies. The product and…

Please note that all selected team members for FSG13 which uploaded their valid Health Insurance Card (HIC) and passed the HIC-check, will find a…

Like in the past Henkel will offer again a price for the Best Use of Adhesives. It was and for sure it will be again a competition demonstrating the…

Racing enthusiast, colleagues, friends,

MathWorks is pleased to announce that we will sponsor Formula Student Germany in 2013. Please see the support…

The 2013 Formula Student Germany event promises to become the most international edition of FSG to date. On Monday January 14th, a total of 186 teams…

The registration quizzes for the 2013 Formula Student event will go online Monday January 14th at 12:00 CET. The questions are slightly more…

Today at 12:00 CET early registration for FSG 2013 opens. Regular registration opens next week, January 14th at 12:00 CET. All you need to do to…

The Formula Student Germany Operative Team wishes you and all those dear to you a merry Christmas and a very successful 2013! We hope that you will…

On Monday January 14^th the registration for both FSC 2013 and FSE 2013 will open. One week in advance the early registration will open on Monday…

In my last blog, I mentioned that some ‘beginner errors’ are creeping back into the designs we are seeing from some very experienced teams. I will…

The rules for FSG 2013 are now available online. The 2013 FSC rules can be found here, and the 2013 FSE rules can be found here.

The rules govern the…

Well, the summer is finished and the FS season is over for another year, so it is time to review the highpoints of the year.

FSG was another huge…

Get the complete picture on Autodesk solutions and the clear path you can take to develop and complete your Formula Student design before it’s built.…

The 2012 FSG workshop will be held at the Bosch Engineering facility in Abstatt on Saturday the 27^th of October. The workshop offers support and…

Last week the dates for Formula Student Germany 2013 have been confirmed by the management of the Hockenheimring. FSG 2013 will take place from Tuesda…

Feedback is a very important for us, the organizers of Formula Student Germany, as we continuously strive to improve the quality and fairness of the…

The winners of Formula Student Germany 2012 are:

University of Stuttgart for Formula Student Combustion

and

Delft University of Technology for…

Yesterday Tim Hannig and Daniel Mazur of the Formula Student Germany board shook hands with Georg Seiler, Geschäftsführer Hockenheimring, and Klaus…

Today we have another first at Formula Student Germany: Pat’s Corner Live. All teams are invited to come by for advice from Pat Clarke. Feel free to…

News from registration: All but one team, that is 108 teams altogether, arrived at Hockenheimring. More than ever!!

Also, three other teams have…

As every year, also this year there will be a sportsmanship award powered by the FSG executive committee. We would like to ask all teams to nominate a…

Both electric and mechanical technical inspection is in full swing. There are currently 10 teams in scrutineering and the scrutineers are still…

Let us introduce to you the newest FSG feature that is online now: the FSG job board! 
From now on, the FSG sponsors can upload job offers,…

Congratulations to the University of Hertfordshire for winning the Scrutineering quiz for FSC and to Zwickau UAS for winning the FSE scrutineering…

This year BASF awards the special price “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”. After application deadline ended the following teams were selected…

This year Tognum awards the special price “Most Innovative Powertrain”. After application deadline ended four teams were selected for the final. The…

The Hockenheim Ring has officially been taken over by the Formula Student Germany team as they work hard to prepare for the 7^th Formula Student…

In any racing event, safety is of key importance. DEKRA is one of the world’s leading expert organisations and Technical Partner of Formula Student…

Please note that on Friday, July 27^th, 12:00 CEST is the deadline for the final team list. Registration will be closed then.

This means that teams…

In spring 2012 for the first time asphalt mills and track pavers worked on behalf of Formula Student Germany on the Hockenheimring. The goal: the…

FSG IS BANNING THE BRAKE PANIC SWITCH FOR FSG2012 AND ALL FUTURE FSG EVENTS.

All electric teams that have already installed a brake panic switch MUST…

Intelligent and high performing connection technology forms the foundation of industrial application and manufacturing technologies. The product and…

Here you find important facts and figures about Formula Student Germany on one page to be used for example for media requests that might be directly…

To all teams: The 1st place winners of both the FSC and FSE Business Plan Presentation Award and FSE Cost Analysis Award to be announced at the event…

FSG will award a prize for the best team's FSG video. Be creative: The subject is internationality of the Formula Student Germany competition.

The wi…

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

Why does BASF as The Chemical Company award the “Best Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastics”? You are right, high performance plastics are a very…

Please remember to upload your car video until coming Monday July 9th 12:00 CEST which “proves” that your car is ready to take part in the FSG…

Here at Bosch Engineering GmbH you will find the best of two worlds for your electronic systems: individual solutions combined with the benefits of…

Here at Bosch Engineering GmbH you will find the best of two worlds for your electronic systems: individual solutions combined with the benefits of…