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22. June 2010
BMW Group Award for the Most Innovative Powertrain
The engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines that they are industry leaders in this area. Show us that your innovative approach to...
19. June 2010
SLV Workshop
Ever since the first Formula Student Germany at the Hockenheimring in 2006 SLV has provided support in welding technology to teams participating in FSG. Therefore, on the 14th and 15th of May 2010, a welding workshop was...
09. June 2010
Teams to hand in information for programme magazine
In only a few months time, the fifth Formula Student Germany will take place at the Hockenheimring. Therefore, it may come as no surprise, that preparations are in full swing to make this fifth edition a success for everyone...
08. June 2010
FSG Cost Event – Add Item Request
Notice to all teams: Up until today nearly all add item requests have been processed. At the moment the cost committee is still working on an additional 200 add item requests, not all of which will be finished by June 11th...
08. June 2010
Pat’s Corner – Safety
It has been a little while since my last column, due primarily to work pressures, but now we have FSAE Michigan out of the way, I can concentrate on FSG again.Congratulations to Oregon State University on winning both Design and...
21. May 2010
Formula Student Electric Endurance after dark
In addition to the first Formula Student Electric (FSE), this August there will be another world premiere at the Hockenheimring, the first ever Endurance race by night.With the introduction of FSE an additional 18 teams will be...
20. May 2010
Daimler awards the “Best E-Drive Packaging“ for the 1st time (copy 1)
We invented the motorized vehicle and are passionate about the future of automotive engineering. Our aim is to markedly reduce fuel consumption and emissions already today and to eliminate them entirely in the long term. To this...
17. May 2010
Henkel Best Use of Adhesives Award
We are back again! Already in 2009 we offered an award for the Best Use of Adhesives. The documentations of the participating teams about bonding applications were excellent. The following presentations of the final 8 teams at...
30. April 2010
Welding at Formula Student – the SLV-Workshop
The Education and Research Academy for Welding Technology Mannheim Ltd. (SLV) has been responsible for supporting the Formula Student Teams in welding issues since the first Formula Student Germany event at the Hockenheimring in...
25. April 2010
Baden-Baden Special – The feasibility of electric driving 13/14 October 2010, Baden-Baden Germany
The VDI-Wissensforum and the VDI Society for Automotive and Traffic Systems Technology offer students the possibility to participate in the 4th VDI-Conference “Baden-Baden Special – The feasibility of electric driving”For this...
06. April 2010
FSE: Certificate Safety Responsible no longer required
The requirement for the Safety Responsible (SR) of an FSE team to be certified to work with high voltage systems in automotive vehicles has been dropped. All other requirements remain in place.This means that the Safety...
01. April 2010
FSG on Ice
The Formula Student Executive Committee announces FSG on Ice to cope with the strong demand for the FSG competition at the Hockenheimring. Currently, 78 teams have registered for the regular FSG event with 41 teams still on the...
12. March 2010
Update on Cost Event Access application and Deadline for Add Item Requests
The newly founded Global Cost Event Committee strongly recommends basing their 2010 Cost Report on the Excel cost tables and use of the Excel spreadsheet. Of course teams can also use the existing Cost Event Access application...
11. February 2010
Request for timely IAD and SEF upload
With the introduction of FSE this year, an additional 18 SEFs and IADs will have to be processed by the event organisation. The FSG Executive Committee therefore kindly requests all teams to aid event logistics and to upload...
08. February 2010
Number of FSE slots increased to 18 – preparations for Formula Student Germany 2010 on track
The number of starting grids for the first Formula Student Electric (FSE) has been increased from 12 to 18 slots. With this measure the Executive Committee is convinced to enable all teams with a finished pure electric car to...
04. February 2010
Visa application and letter of invitation
The FSG Executive Committee would like to point out the following. Teams needing a letter of invitation in order to receive their Visa for FSG 2010, will have to make this known to Ms Ehrenreich before May 1st. Additionally,...
27. January 2010
FSG & FSE Introduce Twitter for short messages to teams
Formula Student Germany and Formula Student Electric introduce a Twitter for short messages of practical nature. With this new online tool, the FSG Executive Committee aims to even better inform participating teams, as well as...
13. January 2010
New registration procedure successful
All available places for the 2010 Formula Student Germany (FSG) event have been booked. 40 German and 38 international teams from 21 nations and 5 different continents have successfully registered for the 2010 FSG starting grids....
13. January 2010
Executive Committee considers measures to deal with large number of FSE applications
On 11th of January, 25 teams registered to take part in the first Formula Student Electric (FSE) event, taking place in August 2010 on the Hockenheimring. With teams from 9 different nations Formula Student Electric is a truly...
08. January 2010
Modification of registration quiz procedure
Dear team captains, this is to inform you that the registration process has been modified slightly compared to earlier announcements on this website. Changes concern the registration quiz. Contrary to what has been indicated...
20. December 2009
Formula Student Germany and Formula Student Electric introduce registration quiz
Registration for the 2010 FSG and FSE events will be preceded by a registration quiz, testing the teams’ knowledge about the competition rules. This new registration feature is without precedent at any of the other FSAE or...
08. December 2009
EuroMold Workshop
Last Saturday, an FSG workshop took place at the EuroMold trade-fair in Frankfurt am Main. The workshop dealt with suspension design and set-up. It was the first FSG workshop targeting only one specific aspect of a Formula...
08. December 2009
Formula Student Electric website online
Today, December 8th 2009, the Formula Student Electric (FSE) website has been launched. From now on all news and developments, as well as important documents concerning FSE will be made public through this website. All teams...
03. December 2009
DEKRA remains technical partner in the future
DEKRA will continue its commitment as official technical partner of Formula Student Germany (FSG) in the coming years. A corresponding agreement was signed in Stuttgart December 1st 2009. Formula Student Germany is an...
01. December 2009
Formula Student Electric Rules online
The final version of the Formula Student Electric rules are now available under the FSE rules section on this website. Formula Student Electric will be held for the first time in 2010. The FSE rules prescribe safety requirements...
01. December 2009
Essen Motorshow 2009
German Formula Student teams of the FH Aachen, RWTH Aachen, FH Deggendorf, FH Dortmund, TU Dortmund, Esslingen, HSU Hamburg, FH Köln, Sankt Augustin, FH Würzburg-Schweinfurt and WH Zwickau present themselves for the first time at...
19. November 2009
Formula Student Germany joins FSAE Series
The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the FSG (Formula Student Germany) jointly announced today that the FSG competition has been signed on as an official member of the FSAE (Formula SAE) series of student...
15. November 2009
Pat's Column - Car set up
Apologies to all for the lack of a column over the last few months. Insane work pressure has kept me away from home for 7 of the last 9 weeks. Last week had me in Adelaide where I witnessed the finish of the Solar Challenge. It...
12. November 2009
FSG 2010 rules and latest draft FSE rules online
As of now the rules for the 2010 FSG competition are available under the rules section on the FSG website. The rules form the basis of the competition prescribing the specifications for a car in terms of lay-out (open-wheeled...
06. November 2009
FSG & FSE Workshop at Bosch Engineering GmbH, Abstatt
On Saturday October 31st the annual FSG workshop and the first FSE workshop took place at Bosch Engineering GmbH in Abstatt. With nearly 300 students from 52 FS teams participating the workshop was a great success.At...
11. October 2009
Fun Event at the Lausitzring
The weekend of October 9 till 11, a fun event at the Lausitzring, Klettwitz, Germany, took place. An event that was especially organized to thank all the volunteers that put so much time, effort and dedication into making Formula...
07. October 2009
All you need to know about suspension design & setup
On 5th December FS Academy will offer a workshop for FSG participants that focuses on suspension design and the way to the right setup for your car. The workshop will take place in the context of the EuroMold world fair at the...
05. October 2009
FSG & FSE Workshop at Bosch Engineering GmbH, Abstatt
The yearly FSG workshop offering support and information to Formula Student teams will be held on 31st October 2009 at Bosch Engineering in Abstatt. The workshop is open to all team members. Experienced Formula Student...
02. October 2009
Preparations for Formula Student Germany 2010 are on track
Next year’s Formula Student Germany (FSG) will offer participating teams an array of new and exciting challenges as well as an even more professional event. These changes were decided upon by the FSG officials who came...
02. October 2009
New organizational structure of Formula Student Germany
In September this year the Formula Student Germany (FSG) board has approved a new FSG organizational structure and decided to strengthen the team by taking on new voluntary members. These changes in structure and human resources...
29. September 2009
International congress "Electronics in vehicles"
The 14th international congress of electronics in vehicles takes place on 7th and 8th of October in Baden Baden. Formula Student Electric offers 60 free entries for interested teams. For detailed information please visit...
25. August 2009
First Formula Student Electric event will be held in 2010
In 2010, the first ever Formula Student for electric race cars will take place. The Formula Student Electric (FS Electric) adds a discipline for electric drive train technology to the successful Formula Student Germany (FSG)...
12. August 2009
Sorry TU Fast!
During the award ceremony the FSG Organisation made a terrible mistake. The award for third place in engineering design was handed over to the team of Perth (University of Western Australia) but belonged to the Team of the...
10. August 2009
University of Stuttgart is the winner of the FSG 2009
Stuttgart is the winner of the Formula Student Germany 2009. Second and third prize go to the universities of Hatfield and Western Australia. 77 teams and 1900 students from around the world participated in this year’s...
08. August 2009
The autocross
Yesterday in the early afternoon the Autocross took place which 68 of 77 teams have finished. Here the dynamic skills of the race cars are tested. The teams of Stuttgart U, Corvallis OSU and Delft TU achieved...
08. August 2009
First winning teams at dynamic disciplines
Today the teams put their cars’ acceleration to the test (64 have finished). Fastest car to make the 75 meter distance was Kiel UAS, only a few hundreths of seconds in front of Ann Arbor U MI and Zürich ETH. To...
08. August 2009
The dynamic events
After finishing scrutineering and all static events, the first dynamic disciplines are held today. At first there is Acceleration, followed by Skidpad and Autocross. The main race, Endurance, which counts up to 325 points...
06. August 2009
All static events have successfully been completed
Today, all the static events took place, including the Business Plan Presentations, Cost Event and Engineering Design Event. The 77 teams presented as well as defended their developments of the past year.This year we had a...
06. August 2009
DTM-Driver on the trails of Formula Student
Bernd Schneider, five-time winner of the DTM (Mercedes), enjoyed his stay at the Formula Student Germany event last year and is now up to another visit to Hockenheim. As a special highlight of the event, all team members are...
06. August 2009
Scrutineering
Today as well as yesterday afternoon, the scrutineering of the first few cars took place. During the scruniteering process the cars are being checked for meeting the strict regulations of the event. Only after they have been...
06. August 2009
UPDATE Best Suspension Design Award - in memory of Allan Staniforth
The Judging for the Best Suspension Award will take place on Saturday. The teams will be nominated by the Design Judges based on your Design Reports, Design Spec Sheets and your performance during design Judging on Friday....
05. August 2009
Formula Student Germany takes the fourth round
From Wednesday, 5th August 2009, til Sunday, 9th August 2009, the fourth Formula Student Germany takes place on Hockenheim-Ring. This year 78 national and international teams are expected. Today all teams will register, move...
29. July 2009
Event Handbook available – new registration process
The Event Handbook with information for all participating teams is now available as pdf file. Teams are asked to read the handbook carefully in advance. The registration process has been changed for 2009 – please read this...
08. July 2009
Audi Best Lightweight Concept Award
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...
02. July 2009
BMW Group Award for the Most Innovative Powertrain
The engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines that they are industry leaders in this area. Show us that your innovative approach...
10. June 2009
Style Event assesses optical design
FSG is again offering the additional discipline Style Event. Prof. James Kelly, the Chair of Transportation Design at FH Pforzheim and Roberto Maronde (Daimler AG) will be judging the race cars according to designing...
07. June 2009
FSG Cost Event - Add Item Requests
Till today over 1200 add item requests have been completed. The committee is working on 350 more add item requests at the moment. Not all of them will be finished till the 12th of June 2009. In case of an unanswered add item...
07. June 2009
Waiting List updated
The deadline for SEF and IAD has expired on the 1st of May 2009. All registered teams uploaded the requested documents. Only 12 of the 39 teams of the waitung list handed in all documents in time. Due to Rule 1.3 and Rule 1.4 of...
10. May 2009
Allan Staniforth - Obituary
Our friend and mentor ‘Stanny’ passed away peacefully on May 2nd after a short illness. He was 85 years of age and still driving competitively in Sprints and Hillclimbs. Allan was a husband, father and grandfather to more than...
06. May 2009
Pat's Column - Space-frame Chassis
I have never made any secret of my preference for space-frame chassis in FSG. This preference is not because of some nostalgic feeling, but for very pragmatic reasons. The thing I like most about a space-frame structure is that...
29. April 2009
Welding at Formula Student – the SLV-Workshop
The Education and Research Academy for Welding Technology Mannheim Ltd. (SLV) has been responsible for the support of the Formula Student Teams in welding issues since the first Formula Student Germany event at the...
14. April 2009
Pat's Column - Relay Racing
Time for another column as we enter the Student Formula season, and the new Formula One season as the Brawn GP cars will start from the front row in Melbourne later today. It looks like an interesting season. I was invited to...
08. April 2009
FSG Cost Event
10 years ago, new cost rules have been developed. These rules gave the Cost Event a complete new shape and made it to a major part of the competition. In 2008 the Formula SAE® Series and Formula Student Germany decided to...
09. March 2009
Henkel Best Use of Adhesives Award
Designing and calculating components with traditional materials and joining technologies is the standard in industry. Looking at bonding technologies there are mainly two opinions existing: One statement is: Bonding is widely...
03. February 2009
Steering Committee discusses measures to deal with great demand
In January, 117 teams applied for the 78 starting grids – 39 of them are now on the waiting list. We are aware of the great amount of work and passion these teams have invested in their project and that they also owe a return to...
26. January 2009
Pat's Column - January
Well, 2009 is here and we are in the count-down to FSG in August. As Birgit has already reported, the available registrations filled up within 8 seconds when the registration server and nearly 40 teams were unable to register. ...
19. January 2009
All 78 places for FSG 2009 are booked
Only 8 seconds (!) after opening regular registration all available places were booked. 38 German and 40 international teams from 19 nations have successfully registered for the 2009 Formula Student Germany Event. Altogether,...
09. January 2009
Top 10 of FS-world ranking published!
Just in time for the early registration of the Formula Student Germany 2009 the FS-World published the Formula Student world ranking. Please see www.fs-world.org. The FS-World managed to deal with 505 different teams having...
07. January 2009
The season 2009 begins - early registration opens on January 9, 2009
The countdown for the 4th Formula Student Germany from 5-9 August 2009 starts now! Early registration will be open from January 9, 2009. Regular registration starts on January 16, 2009. FSG 2009 offers starting grids for 78...
24. December 2008
Pat's Column - December
Well, the 2008 Formula year is finished. Last weekend saw the final event of the year, FSAE-Australasia. Stuttgart dominated FSAE-A finishing with 961 points from an available 1000 to finish a very successful year on a very high...
13. December 2008
Casting, Composites and Rapid Prototyping
At 6th of December, the second Formula Student Germany workshop of the year took place at the EuroMold World fair in Frankfurt. The workshop aimed on supplying the visitors with specific knowledge in the area of casting,...
10. November 2008
All you need to know about Casting, Composites and Rapid Prototyping
On 6th December FS Academy will offer a new workshop for FSG participants that focuses on production methods in casting, composites and rapid prototyping. The workshop will take place in the context of the EuroMold world fair...
09. November 2008
354 students attend FSG-Workshop at BMW Group in Munich
At 8th of November, 354 students from 53 teams from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland attended the 4h FSG-Workshop held at BMW in Munich. FSG-Officials, industry experts and...
08. October 2008
FSG Workshop at BMW in Munich
A workshop to support teams will be offered on 8th November 2008 by the Formula Student Germany at the BMW Research and Innovation Center (FIZ) in Munich. The speakers are experienced Formula Student participants and industrial...
08. October 2008
Tempus Fugit
Hello again. Well, Summer vacation is over, the leaves are changing colour and the European FS season is finished. A new academic year has started and teams should be starting to think about their next car. Stuttgart emerged as...
07. October 2008
Best Dynamometer Performance Award
powered by Bosch Engineering GmbH
Again in 2008 Bosch Engineering GmbH sponsored the “Best dynamometer performance award” and covered the expense of having a chassis dyno at the competition site. All teams that passed technical inspection were able to compete for...
18. August 2008
Picture Gallery is online
We engaged some photographers to save the impressions of FSG 2008 in pictures: Bernd Hanselmann, Frank Bramkamp, Ingo Reichmann, Kimmo Hirvonen, Bärbel Systermann, Klaus Bergmann, Johannes Rieke and Bastian Schäfer together took...
10. August 2008
Congratulations to the Technical University of Delft!
This year's Formula Student Germany Champion 2008 is the Technical University of Delft! The team from the Netherlands put the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Technical University of Graz on second and third place....
10. August 2008
The last discipline is over...
Again Endurance was the last discipline this year. After 10 hours overall race time, 36 teams arrived on the finishing line and successfully completed this year’s FSG. Now all teams impatiently await the announcement of the...
10. August 2008
Endurance has started
The last event of this year’s FSG, the Endurance, has just started. In this discipline, the teams proof acceleration, speed, handling, dynamics, fuel economy and reliability by competing against each other. The Endurance winner...
09. August 2008
The autocross - Bernd Schneider, Mike Rockenfeller and the students
The autocross, the discipline which for the first time tests the dynamic skills of the race cars, took place in the afternoon. In advance Bernd Schneider, 5-time DTM overall winner for Mercedes-Benz, and Mike Rockenfeller,...
09. August 2008
Results of Skid Pad event are out now
More results have been published by now. To show the transverse acceleration of the car, they have to drive the shape of an eight in the Skid Pad discipline. The best results were made by Oxford Brookes University. Tonight, the...
09. August 2008
First winners at the dynamic disciplines
After finishing scrutineering and all static events, the first dynamic disciplines are held today. At first there is acceleration, followed by skidpad and autocross. 58 of 77 teams put their cars’ acceleration to the test....
09. August 2008
DTM-Drivers on the tracks of Formula Student
FSG presents a special highlight on Saturday. The DTM-drivers Bernd Schneider, five times DTM champion with Mercedes-Benz, and Mike Rockenfeller have a closer look to the self-designed and built race cars of the student...
08. August 2008
Static Events have been completed
Today, all teams have competed in the static disciplines Business Plan Presentation, Cost Analysis Event and Engineering Design Event and could present their theoretical developments from the last year.In the evening, the public...
07. August 2008
Finalists for the Most Innovative Use of Electronics Award published
The finalists for the additional award "Most Innovative Use of Electronics" powered by Bosch Engineering GmbH have been announced. On venue the list with the finalists is displayed in the front windows of the FSG forum.
07. August 2008
FSG increases importance of fuel efficiency
From 2009 onwards, the fuel consumption will be increased from a maximum of 50 points to a maximum of 100 points in the overall rating. As a result, it will then represent 10% of all achievable points. The overall distribution of...
07. August 2008
The first steps: Technical and Safety Inspection
On Wednesday and Thursday the teams have to present their cars at the Technical and Safety Inspection. The cars are thoroughly examined in the Scrutineering whether they have been constructed accordingly to the strict rules....
06. August 2008
Finalists for Best Suspension and for Best Lightweight Concept Award published
The finalists for two of the additional awards have been announced: for the Best Lightweight Concept Award powered by AUDI AG and for the Best Suspension Design Award powered by ZF Group, which will take place in the FSG Forum on...
06. August 2008
Formula Student Germany is back again!
Today the Hockenheimring’s gates open yet again for the Formula Student Germany 2008. This year, teams from 19 nations participate to compete in static and dynamic disciplines within the coming days.Altogether 78 teams take up...
30. July 2008
On the fast lane with Brunel – FSG 2008
In just few days 77 race teams from all over the world will compete to win in the Formula Student Germany 2008. In exciting single disciplines it again means: screeching tires, smouldering heads and impressive technical...
18. July 2008
BMW Group Award for the Most Innovative Powertrain
The engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated that with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines, that they are industry leaders in this area. Show us that your innovative...
16. July 2008
ZF Best Suspension Design Award
Awarded to the team that exhibits the best suspension system design and development including outstanding performance, manufacturing, and aesthetics. Teams must submit a summary of their suspension...
14. July 2008
Best dynamometer performance
We at Bosch Engineering GmbH know about the complexity of designing a vehicle that meets emissions regulations and on the other hand still is powerful and “fun to drive”. To handle the complex measurement procedures required for...
14. July 2008
Most innovative use of electronics
We at Bosch Engineering GmbH know about the needs of the automotive industry and engineering where there is a growing demand for graduates who are experienced in the technical principles of electrical engineering. For this reason...
09. July 2008
Audi Best Lightweight Concept Award
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.
27. June 2008
Design the best-performing car with SolidWorks
SolidWorks has been a proud partner of the Formula Student and Formula SAE competitions for many years, giving students meaningful real-world experience designing, building, testing, and competing with original designs in a team...
12. June 2008
DEKRA reviews security reports of the 78 teams
Since 80 years DEKRA is working side by side with the automotive industries as a professional and neutral partner, especially in the field of vehicle scrutiny, expertise and valuation. As the technological partner of the Formula...
12. June 2008
Design Judging Stuff
Here it is, June already, with only one month to go until FSG. May saw the running of FSAE in Michigan and we must congratulate the winners there. Western Australia, Stuttgart and TU Munich stood on the podium, shutting out the...
09. June 2008
Style Event assesses optical design
FSG is again offering the additional discipline Style Event. Prof. James Kelly, the Chair of Transportation Design at FH Pforzheim and Roberto Maronde (Daimler AG) will be judging the race cars according to designing...
04. June 2008
Programme magazine uploads for team and car information
To inform participants, judges, sponsors and visitors about the dates and locations of proceeding disciplines or events during Formula Student Germany 2008, we will offer a programme magazine for free. In addition to the basic...
03. June 2008
On the Right Track With ZF
Our 4,600 engineers worldwide are looking for reinforcement in the fields of electronics, electrical engineering, as well as mechanical and vehicle engineering. Engineers (m/f) with major in mechanical engineering,...
16. April 2008
Risk = Hs x Hp
As we enter a new season of Formula Student competition, it is probably a good idea to talk about safety. Yeah, I know you guys are invincible, can stop bullets with your teeth and are totally impervious to injury. Truth is,...
15. April 2008
Next YourDay @ BoschEngineering on May 30th, 2008. Apply now.
Gain exciting insights into the Bosch Engineering GmbH on May 30th, 2008.
01. April 2008
April-fool joke ;-)
Certainly we are not going to auction scrutineering slots! That was simply the Steering Committees’ April-fool joke 2008 – but with a serious reason. Scrutineering is an integral part of the event which cannot be loosened in its...
