24 Oranges,
Orangemaster, 16 July 2015
Engineering
students from the Delft University of Technology have done it again, winning
this year’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers’ Formula Student competition
for the second time in a row.
The Formula
Student competition requires engineering students to design, build and race a
single seat racing car in just one year. Cars are assess on their acceleration,
endurance, fuel economy, design and business cases.
Thousands
of the world’s best young engineers were at Silverstone, Northamptonshire,
England on 8-12 July. There were 135 teams in total, with 49 from the UK and
teams from as far as Australia, Turkey and Ukraine. Team Delft claimed the
prize at Silverstone this weekend with a total score of 909.3 out of a total
score of 1,000 points. Germany’s UAS Zwickau claimed second place with 792.5
points, University of Stuttgart came third with 750.8 and the University of
Bath was the top UK team, coming fourth with 748.4 points.
(Link: phys.org, Photo of the unrelated Forze IV hydrogen-based formula race car by
Richard van het Hof)
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