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Formula Student Team Delft Interview
Published 2022
Formula TU Ostrava Team Interview
Published 2022

Formula Student Team Delft Interview

Introduce your team briefly

We are Formula Student Team Delft but we go by DUT (Delft University of Technology). Specifically we are DUT22 as we are competing for the 22nd time in our history. Our team is 90 members strong this year with 30 of those members working full time.

Tell us about your team’s history with Formula Student

We started making combustion cars before switching to electric in 2011. We have been to many different competitions throughout the years including the United Kingdom, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, USA, Austria and of course The Netherlands! We have been fortunate enough to have won Germany 6 times, UK 3 times and we won in The Netherlands in 2019.

What does joining Formula Student Netherlands mean to you?

As fans of motorsport it is special to compete at ‘The Cathedral’. It is even more special having it in our own backyard! It is also an opportunity to regain the title and try to improve our wet skid pad world record.

What are your main goals for this year?

To win!

What made you think of/choose FSN?

FSN has always been very well organised and we knew that many of the best teams in the world are joining this year.

What makes you different from the other teams?

We strive to embody the spirit of Formula Student by competing fiercely to win while doing whatever we can to help our competitors perform as well as possible. We all joined Formula Student for a challenge so we want the competition to be as tough as possible! One of the ways we do this is by bringing a truck with a lathe, mill and general workbench tools to each competition which certainly helps us if something goes wrong on our car but is mostly used to help our competitors build and fix parts on their cars.

Describe your car in three words

Potentially very fast

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

It teaches us to value the time we can spend at the workshop or at the competition.

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

I think a forum for sharing parts between all the teams could help.

Did your team help your local society with the COVID-19 situation?

We joined an initiative at TU Delft called Project Inspiration. The goal was to reverse engineer an emergency ventilator that could be cheaply and domestically produced in developing countries. We provided our systems/electrical/mechanical/CAD design capabilities and managed the failure mode and effect analysis.

You can follow Formula Student Team Delft for more updates and news on their social media platforms:

Instagram: @fsteamdelft

Facebook: @FSteamDelft

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/dutracing

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

Website: https://www.fsteamdelft.nl/

We look forward to welcoming the team to the track!

Categories :	Published 2022

Formula TU Ostrava Team Interview

Introduce your team briefly

We operate under the auspices of the VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. Our members are students of either bachelor’s or master’s, mostly in Mechanical Engineering or Electrical Engineering programs.

We are young motivated individuals whose goal is to build a race car and compete against the best in the field. There are not many of us, about 20 active members for this race season 2022, so we consider ourselves a “small family” and together we put our best effort to make our car not only fast but also reliable.

Tell us about your team’s history with Formula Student

The first thoughts about establishing the Formula Student team at our University came around 2013 and we started competing in 2015 with our prototype car named Vector01. After that, we sucessefuly competed in all following seasons and our cars followed the naming Vector. Our latest car Vector07 will be ready for the 2022 racing season and we are beyond the excitement to get to know how we stand against our competitors.

What does joining Formula Student Netherlands mean to you?

Excitement, fun, and a new challenge :)

What are your main goals for this year?

Successfully compete in 3 events this race season
Stabilizing the team and transferring knowledge to our new members

What made you think of/choose FSN?

We are constantly seeking new challenges and when there was a possibility to compete in FSN we didn’t hesitate and went for the registration! We also consider FSN as a “higher-class” race.

What makes you different from the other teams?

We are quite small in terms of the number of the members and budget compare to other teams and yet we still manage to compete against them and place our car in the middle of the field.

Describe your car in three words

Blood, sweat, and tears.

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

We managed to build the car & kept the team together & competed in all seasons without any pause in our active years (since 2015)

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

We don’t think there is currently any effect from these events. At least at our university, the situation is standard. Although we realize that not everyone has the same comfort as we do here in Czechia.

You can follow Formula TU Ostrava for more updates and news on their social media platforms:

Instagram: @formulaostrava

Facebook: @formulaostrava

Twitter: @formulaostrava

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/formulaostrava/about/

Website: http://formula.vsb.cz/en/

We look forward to welcoming the team to the track!

Categories :	Published 2022