Hi

We are on our way to Red Bull Ring in Spielberg for the FS Austria competition. Watch this twitter list for updates of all teams: http://twitter.com/#!/amzracing/fsae

Event website: http://www.fsaustria.at/

Regards
Thomas

Good luck to everyone competing. I've been in the paddock for the past couple of days testing on the main track. Looks like a great venue for an FS event.

Ben

From FS Austria twitter:

Design Finalists are: 3 TU Graz Racing, 25 KA Racing, 31 TU Fast, 33 AMZ Racing, 74 HighOctane Motorsports, 94 Rennstall Esslingen

Did Monash made the semi-finals?

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Did Monash made the semi-finals?

This topic is about the austrian not the austrALian FSAE competition!

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Austria

There is a slightly difference between those countries most citizens of the American continent seem not to know

somebody say "there is no kangaroo in Austria"...

lol sorry guys!I think I am dyslexic sometimes. And for sure I know where it is. If you know a little bit what happened between 1939 ans 1945, you know where Austria is. You know in Canada we still have history lesson :P

So any new from the event?

to be a kind of a know-it-all, i have to add that between 1939 and 1945 Austria didn't officially exist because of the annexation by Nazi Germany...

Currently the top 3 are on the track for the endurance event, Global Formula Racing does incredibly quick times!

There is also a live-stream at:
http://www.fsaustria.at/index.php?id=165

If anyone takes notes from the design finals conclusion, could you post 'em up? It would be interesting to know what the judges like about these cars, especially considering those teams shut down GFR on the design front.

The results are coming in:

Best team from Styria: TU Graz
Best use of Aerodynamics (of course): GFR
Business Plan: TU Graz
Cost: Barcelona
Best driver: Erlangen

Design:
1. Erlangen
2. Zurich
3. TU Graz

Engineering Excellence: TU Graz

Skid Pad: Erlangen
Acceleration: Zurich (3.75 - probably one of the fastest times ever... on very fast 75m, if you look at all the other times...)
Autocross: GFR

Endurance + Fuel:
1. GFR
2. Erlangen
3. Zurich (with 120s penalty for "a late start"...)

Overall electric:
1. Zurich
2. Munich
3. GFRe

Overall combustion:
1. GFR (congratulations, amazing performance!)
2. Erlangen
3. TU Munich

I've got some photos from the event online at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r...s/72157627310374116/

Also, for those that were not there the acceleration course was downhill. We were close to .2 seconds faster than we were at California.

Yes, the acceleration track was a bit downhill, but I thought it lacked grip, we couldn't put the torque down well. I was trying to find out if there has been a faster 75 m acceleration run than our 3.752 at FSA. This helped: http://fstotal.com/statistics/...58-wins-acceleration

FS 2009 was only 75 yards, so that 3.740 doesn't count.
Does anybody know how UWA could run 3.71 s in FSAE Au 2006?


Alex, the judges especially liked our chassis. And everything else except the wiring.

Regards
Thomas

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Originally posted by Thrainer:
Yes, the acceleration track was a bit downhill, but I thought it lacked grip, we couldn't put the torque down well. I was trying to find out if there has been a faster 75 m acceleration run than our 3.752 at FSA. This helped: http://fstotal.com/statistics/...58-wins-acceleration

FS 2009 was only 75 yards, so that 3.740 doesn't count.
Does anybody know how UWA could run 3.71 s in FSAE Au 2006?


Alex, the judges especially liked our chassis. And everything else except the wiring.

Regards
Thomas

The staging was not correct at FSAE-A 2006, cars were starting a long way behind the timing start line.

Although Pete is always telling newer members how good '06 was, I recently heard the story about the staging, it was not measured and there was a huge variation in where teams started although '06 still is the only UWA car with fully electric paddle shifts and was quite quick, We will see what we can do this year though