FSN2023

Formula Student Netherlands | TT Circuit Assen | July 8th – 13th 2023

Hanze Racing Division Team Interview
Published 2022
StarkStrom Augsburg e.V Team Interview
Published 2022
PG Racing Team Interview
Published 2022

Hanze Racing Division Team Interview

Introduce your team briefly

The Hanze Racing Division (HARD) is a team of students from various faculties of Hanze UAS and the RUG located in Groningen and participating in the Formula Student global competition. Together, we design and build a self-driving electric race car. Ambition, passion, and dedication are what drive us on a daily basis, allowing us to consistently push our limits to achieve our goals.

Tell us about your team’s history with Formula Student?

At the beginning of 2010, a couple of enthusiastic engineering students of Hanze UAS heard about Formula Student for the first time and on the 1st of October 2010, Hanze Racing Division was a fact. Our first race at Formula Student was back in 2011 with our HRD01. The years after this, the main focus was on building a strong team. In 2014, the HRD03 was performing really well. In 2015, with a new board, we started working on the HRD04, which was performing really well in Italy in 2018!

What does joining Formula Student Netherlands mean to you?

Joining Formula Student Netherlands is our goal throughout the year. It is something we have worked towards for a couple of years now, while working on our electric car. With all this effort and time put in by so many different HARD members, we are proud to be able to join FSN and show our hard work.

What are your main goals for this year?

For this year, we’d like to finish our first electric car, the HRD05, and make it fully self-driving.

What made you think of/choose FSN?

Since the beginning of HARD, our goal has always been racing at FSN with our new and improved car. FSN is like home to us.

What makes you different from the other teams?

With students from both the RUG University and the Hanze UAS, we are able to combine these different qualities to achieve the best result.

What is your most significant achievement in Formula Student so far?

42th in 2018 with our HRD04

Do you think there are any positive outcomes for the competition from the current situation?

After not being able to go to events for the past few years makes this competition very exciting. It is going to be so much fun seeing other teams again.

What can the Formula Student organizing bodies do to help the struggling teams due to the recent events?

Being able to get through scrutineering without competing is helping us a lot to motivate members and being able to push to finish the car.

Describe the car in three words.

Pioneer, electric, self-driving

You can follow Hanze Racing Division Team for more updates and news on their social media platforms:

Instagram: @hanze_racing_division

Facebook: @hanzeracingdivision

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hanze-racing-division/

Website: hanzeracingdivision.com

We look forward to welcoming the team to the track!

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StarkStrom Augsburg e.V Team Interview

Introduce your team briefly

StarkStrom Augsburg e.V. is the Formula Student Team of the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, founded in 2010. In our amazing workshop, our team of about 30 active members builds racecars with absolute passion.

Tell us about your team’s history with Formula Student

Our development process was fast and evolutionary, presenting a monocoque after only one year of Formula Student experience. After adding aerodynamic components in our 3rd year, we achieved an impressive 12th place overall at Formula Student Germany. In 2015, we built our most successful rear-wheel drive car, finishing 10th overall at FSG, and took on the challenge of an all-wheel drive car in 2016. After some setbacks we came back even stronger as a team. In 2021, our electric vehicle achieved amazing results: We finished three endurances and took home trophies not only in dynamics but also statics. In addition, we participated in the Driverless competition from day one and finished among the top teams in autonomous racing with a 2^nd place at FSG21 and a 1^st place at FS ATA 2021.

What does joining Formula Student Netherlands mean to you?

Formula Student Netherlands is the perfect event to start any event summer as it is highly professional. By participating at FSN you will understand every weakness your car still obtains and are prepared for what’s coming during the rest of the summer.

What are your main goals for this year?

For this year we hope to be able to be as strong as we were last year. An unbelievable achievement would be to successfully finish the FSN endurance as the first event like we managed to do last year.

What made you think of/choose FSN?

Whenever we have participated at FSN everyone agreed on how good the event was organized, how well it was prepared and that it is a great event overall. It is definitely challenging to pass through scrutineering but it is even better if you manage it. For us, there was absolutely no doubt in participating at FSN 2022!

Describe your car in three words

Doppelt hält besser (Two times is better than one)

What makes you different from the other teams?

The names of our race cars are traditionally chosen after a name of a puppet of the “Augsburger Puppenkiste”, which is a very famous German puppet theater. This shows, that our team is very close to their roots and is a great metaphor, that we are not only a team but also see us as a family.

What is your most significant achievement in Formula Student so far?

Our most significant achievement in the Electric class was our fourth place at FSN 2021. In the Driverless class we managed to become 2^nd at FSG 2021 and the overall champion in Italy in 2021.

Do you think there are any positive outcomes for the competition from the current situation?

In Formula Student since ever students learned to find fast and flexible solutions for any problem. However, the current situation challenged this flexibility even more for example in our case, we had to participate at FSN 2021 with only six team members. Other teams told us we were crazy but we found solutions to manage the situation and even succeeded on a 4^th place overall – with only six team members in Assen!

What can the Formula Student organizing bodies do to help the struggling teams due to the recent events?

As mentioned before, the students had to become even more flexible due to Covid-19 situation and the ongoing, unpredictable changes. What could help regarding the event organization would be a feedback opportunity face-to-face. Sometimes, it is extremely hard to explain a complex situation in just a short email. For example, the opportunity of an online meeting to discuss urgent matters would make communication way easier. This could be easily done by booking a time slot in the “My Team Account”, which is for example on a fixed date every 2^nd

You can follow StarkStrom Augsburg e.V. for more updates and news on their social media platforms:

Instagram: @starkstrom.augsburg

Facebook: @StarkStromAugsburg

Youtube: StarkstromAugsburg

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/starkstromaugsburg/

Twitter: @StarkStromAux

Website: starkstrom-augsburg.de

We look forward to welcoming the team to the track!

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PG Racing Team Interview

Introduce your team briefly

PGRacing Team is a students’ project operating as a part of the Scientific Organization “Mechanic”. Our members study at various faculties: Mechanical and Shipbuilding Engineering, Electronics, Telecommunication and Informatics, Management and Economics. We share a passion for motorization and after hours we are a very close group of friends.

Tell us about your team’s history with Formula Student

The team was initiated in the second half of 2014 at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of Gdańsk University of Technology. Since then, 5 vehicles have been built. Over these years we participated in 8 editions of the Formula Student competition. We can say that we are just getting started.

What does joining Formula Student Netherlands mean to you?

The year 2022 is a bit of a milestone for the team, due to the fact that we will take part in national editions that we have never attended before. This applies, of course, to the FSN.We have big plans and we hope that the Netherlands will favor us.

What are your main goals for this year?

Our goal is to build a reliable vehicle that, above all, will be lighter and more agile than the previous one. This will be mainly due to the monocoque construction planned for this year.

What made you think of/choose FSN?

FSN is one of the most prestigious competitions of Formula Student in Europe. We want to face this challenge and try our best with other teams with whom we have never competed.By the way, who wouldn’t want to make a trip to the Netherlands? :)

What makes you different from the other teams?

We are definitely a less experienced team, but we make up for it with passion and dedication to Formula Student. We work 200% harder and most of us combine working on a car with full-time work or studies which is not the easiest task but it is definitely worth it.

What is your most significant achievement in Formula Student so far?

Our greatest achievement so far is the first place in FS Andorra in 2018.

Describe your car in three words.

reliable, durable, fast

You can follow PG Racing Team for more updates and news on their social media platforms:

Instagram: @pgracingteam

Facebook: @PGRacingTeam

Website: www.pgracingteam.pl

We look forward to welcoming the team to the track!

Categories :	Published 2022