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All teams participating in the 2010 Formula Student Germany should take note of the following:

• All team members have to be students (see rules)!
• For…

From the 4^th until the 8^th of August, the fifth Formula Student Germany will take place at the Hockenheimring. Up to now, the event was designed for…

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

As the Design Reports for FSG 2010 come in, I am reviewing them with mixed feelings. Some are good, very good! And some are, well, not so good.

I…

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 engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines that…

Ever since the first Formula Student Germany at the Hockenheimring in 2006 SLV has provided support in welding technology to teams participating in…

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…

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…

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…

In addition to the first Formula Student Electric (FSE), this August there will be another world premiere at the Hockenheimring, the first ever…

We invented the motorized vehicle and are passionate about the future of automotive engineering. Our aim is to markedly reduce fuel consumption and…

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…

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

The VDI-Wissensforum and the VDI Society for Automotive and Traffic Systems Technology offer students the possibility to participate in the 4^th…

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…

The Formula Student Executive Committee announces FSG on Ice to cope with the strong demand for the FSG competition at the Hockenheimring. Currently,…

The newly founded Global Cost Event Committee strongly recommends basing their 2010 Cost Report on the Excel cost tables and use of the Excel…

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…

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…

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,…

Formula Student Germany and Formula Student Electric introduce a Twitter for short messages of practical nature. With this new online tool, the FSG…

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…

On 11^th of January, 25 teams registered to take part in the first Formula Student Electric (FSE) event, taking place in August 2010 on the…

Dear team captains, this is to inform you that the registration process has been modified slightly compared to earlier announcements on this website.…

Registration for the 2010 FSG and FSE events will be preceded by a registration quiz, testing the teams’ knowledge about the competition rules. This…

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…

Today, December 8^th 2009, the Formula Student Electric (FSE) website has been launched. From now on all news and developments, as well as important…

DEKRA will continue its commitment as official technical partner of Formula Student Germany (FSG) in the coming years. A corresponding agreement was…

The final version of the Formula Student Electric rules are now available under the FSE rules section on this website.

Formula Student Electric will…

German Formula Student teams of the FH Aachen, RWTH Aachen, FH Deggendorf, FH Dortmund, TU Dortmund, Esslingen, HSU Hamburg, FH Köln, Sankt Augustin,…

The SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) and the FSG (Formula Student Germany)  jointly announced today that the FSG competition has been signed on…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

The yearly FSG workshop offering support and information to Formula Student teams will be held on 31st October 2009 at Bosch Engineering in Abstatt.…

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…

In September this year the Formula Student Germany (FSG) board has approved a new FSG organizational structure and decided to strengthen the team by…

The 14th international congress of electronics in vehicles takes place on 7th and 8th of October in Baden Baden. Formula Student Electric offers 60…

In 2010, the first ever Formula Student for electric race cars will take place. The Formula Student Electric (FS Electric) adds a discipline for…

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…

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…

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…

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…

After finishing scrutineering and all static events, the first dynamic disciplines are held today.
At first there is Acceleration, followed by Skidpad…

Today, all the static events took place, including the Business Plan Presentations, Cost Event and Engineering Design Event. The 77 teams presented as…

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…

Today as well as yesterday afternoon, the scrutineering of the first few cars took place. During the scruniteering process the cars are being checked…

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,…

From Wednesday, 5th August 2009, til Sunday, 9th August 2009, the fourth Formula Student Germany takes place on Hockenheim-Ring. This year 78 national…

The Event Handbook with information for all participating teams is now available as pdf file. Teams are asked to read the handbook carefully in…

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 engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines that…

FSG is again offering the additional discipline Style Event. Prof. James Kelly, the Chair of Transportation Design at FH Pforzheim and Roberto Maronde…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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.…

Designing and calculating components with traditional materials and joining technologies is the standard in industry. Looking at bonding technologies…

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…

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…

Only 8 seconds (!) after opening regular registration all available places were booked. 38 German and 40 international teams from 19 nations have…

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.f…

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…

Well, the 2008 Formula year is finished. Last weekend saw the final event of the year, FSAE-Australasia.

Stuttgart dominated FSAE-A finishing with…

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…

On 6th December FS Academy will offer a new workshop for FSG participants that focuses on production methods in casting, composites and rapid…

At 8th of November, 354 students from 53 teams from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Japan, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland attended the…

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…

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…

Again in 2008 Bosch Engineering GmbH sponsored the “Best dynamometer performance award” and covered the expense of having a chassis dyno at the…

We engaged some photographers to save the impressions of FSG 2008 in pictures: Bernd Hanselmann, Frank Bramkamp, Ingo Reichmann, Kimmo Hirvonen,…

This year's Formula Student Germany Champion 2008 is the Technical University of Delft! The team from the Netherlands put the Technical University of…

Again Endurance was the last discipline this year. After 10 hours overall race time, 36 teams arrived on the finishing line and successfully completed…

The last event of this year’s FSG, the Endurance, has just started. In this discipline, the teams proof acceleration, speed, handling, dynamics, fuel…

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…

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…

After finishing scrutineering and all static events, the first dynamic disciplines are held today. At first there is acceleration, followed by skidpad…

FSG presents a special highlight on Saturday. The DTM-drivers Bernd Schneider,  five times DTM champion with Mercedes-Benz, and Mike Rockenfeller have…

Today, all teams have competed in the static disciplines Business Plan Presentation, Cost Analysis Event and Engineering Design Event and could…

The finalists for the additional award "Most Innovative Use of Electronics" powered by Bosch Engineering GmbH have been announced. On venue the list…

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,…

On Wednesday and Thursday the teams have to present their cars at the Technical and Safety Inspection.
The cars are thoroughly examined in the…

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…

Today the Hockenheimring’s gates open yet again for the Formula Student Germany 2008. This year, teams from 19 nations participate to compete in…

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…

The engine is the heart and soul of every automobile. The BMW Group has demonstrated that with their powerful and simultaneously efficient engines,…

Awarded to the team that exhibits the best suspension system design and development including outstanding performance, manufacturing, and aesthetics.…

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…

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…

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

SolidWorks has been a proud partner of the Formula Student and Formula SAE competitions for many years, giving students meaningful real-world…

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…

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.…

FSG is again offering the additional discipline Style Event. Prof. James Kelly, the Chair of Transportation Design at FH Pforzheim and Roberto Maronde…