Congratulation to Queensland then. At least they set the fastest driving time, but I didn't see them hitting a cone.
We had the great opportunity to host the Australian teams in the days before the event and it has been a great time. They all looked very competitive with a lot of testing on their cars.
Good luck for all you guys tomorrow in the endurance.

Cheers
Matthias

Hi All,
Autocross finished, unoficially UQ have won that. The event was disrupted by rain for over an hour and afterwards the track was slow. However, towards the finish some speed was found and UQ put in a demon 42 sec clean lap.

Greg, The big track is being ysed by one of the several Porsche clubs in Germany, the drivers generally showing that having the wherewithal to buy a Porsche certainly does not qualify you as a driver!
Yesterday AMG were here and some goose spooled out on the track the wrong way and seemed to be attempting the record! Fool!
The facilities here are fantastic, pits and garages in the F1 pits with the FI teams stickers still on the floor from last weekend. FSG has really elevated this competition to a new level. The organisers are happy, the judges are happy and most of all, the students are ecstatic! I think the barkeepers are happy too =]
Better go and oversee the Design finals.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee Im havin' fun
Pat

Does anyone have pictures of the event and teams?

How are the Aussies going?

Hello!

Just have a look at www.formulastudent.de . There are already pictures avaible.

Queensland won Autocross. The results will be posted at www.formulastudent.de soon.

Cheers
Frau Holle

Design Final was an Awesome event, the judges were told they had till 9:30 and they stuck to it, we then had the decision within 30 minutes! The way it should be.

1st - Helsinki
2nd - TU Munich
3rd - TU Graz
4th - Brookes
5th - New South Wales
6th - Deakin

We had a terrible day, just switched to Goodyears from the Avons, and were chasing set up, both mechanical and electronic all day. 1 cone wrecked Autocross so we are on in about 2 hrs. Weather is really bad, showers all the time. At the top there is 0.32 points between Helsinki and TU Munich

Yes, the facilities here are great, the level of cars is great and there is a lot of excitement in the top. Would be dissapointed to see the weather determine the result in the enduro, but hey, that's racing. According to the organisation it will be showers in the morning, with some showers and sunshine in the afternoon. Therefore the fastest cars will drive the 2nd endurance after lunch. We are in almost at the end after a very fast autocross finish.

It all comes down to enduro now!

Hello all,

made a day trip to Hockenheim and FSG yesterday. From what I saw it seems to be a really great event, good facilities and a lot of competitive teams.

I have uploaded my photos from yesterday here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/siriusracing/. There are some videos in my camera as well, maybe I'll upload them later.

Congratulations to Frank Röske and the rest of the FSG Team for arranging such a great event.

Best regards
Henrik Andersson

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i just heard UQ won autocross, enduro, and the overall dynamic award, but they didn't do so well in the static events.. with a 4th overall

I hear TUGraz won the event..

Well done UQ!!!!

BTW Halfast.. what's this "ugly stick" thing all about?

Frank Evans (UQ 2001-2005)

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hey frank, was the livestream recorded? if it is, where can i go and watch it?

Frank Roske was interviewing drivers after their enduro runs. Deakin's 1st driver was asked "How was it out there?" reply was "It was wet..........German girls are beautiful"
what could possibly have made him associate the two I don't know

RMIT fan club

Frank, It's common knowledge that a winning fsae car must be based on the Chief Engineers favourite Shoes. This means that UQ's Chief Eng. must be an old school 60's rocker....anyone you can think of?
cheers

Well this really was a great event. This was my fifth already, but it was so good, it really set the level in almost every aspect. Very good cars, excellent organisation and a lot of happy people at the party. The Delft team is really proud of our 3rd place, after 4 years of hard work with just that bit of luck/testing time missing in the end. I would like to congratulate all teams on their performance. The top was so close, incredible! Over half the pack finishing endurance really shows the quality of engineering and all the hard work that was put in there. I think this event has the potential to grow even bigger and that would be great. Very eager to see some photos/videos of this event!

Hey Tom,

thanks for your feedback. Pictures are still availablefrom the event, only the of the 6. are still missing but comming soon.
http://www.formulastudent.de/events/event-2006/gallery/

Peter

FSG was a great event. A typical german event with both "Gemutlichkeit und Grundlichkeit": Well organized and a great atmosphere.

I have put some car pictures on the internet as well, check it out at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/22744532@N00/sets/72157594228985239/

Here is the top three:

I just want to say thank you to all the teams for bringing such great cars to the event!

I got to play scrutineer, powertrain judge, and race coordinator all in one weekend so I got to take a pretty close up look at many of the cars. The level at which the first year cars competed (and there were quite a few of them) really amazed me. It definitely shows that Germany is a country with a lot of automotive and racing history. I am sure the level of engineering and build quality will be topped at next years event.

I am an engine guy so I was especially impressed with the performance of the powertrain packages a lot of you had. We had 4 cars running sub 4 second acceleration runs which I would have said is impossible under real race conditions but you guys proved that is indeed possible.

Again, thanks to all the members of the steering comittee and all other people involved in hosting this event and another special thanks to Daniel Mazur who probaly worked as hard as your core team members and slept just as little as them the days before the event.

Another special thanks to Pat (D'Rat) Clarke, he made sure that the design judging was enjoyed by the design judes just as much as by the students.

First of all a huge thanks to the organisers, sponsors and just about everybody involved in FSG. This event was the best I've seen to date and I think a lot of people are going to agree with me.
The pits, the facilities, the communication with the officials, the relaxed but punctual and precise organisation of every event showed how an event such as this should be organized. Amazing to see all the press, guests and sponsors. The level of scrutineering, design judging feedback, and almost all of the events was excellent. Instead of only pointing out the mistakes, actual feedback on ways to improve our car was given.
All the volunteers were friendly and did a hell of a job.
Incredible to see that organizers were actually asking all the teams to help them improve their event by giving feedback on their performance.
Especially the Mahle-party, that was great....

To be honest, the Formula Student England will have to step up to the challenge to keep up with FSG. And that for a first event....

A big thanks to all the teams as well, I've never seen so much companionship. A lot of very fast and amazing cars. Oxford Brookes set a couple of blistering laps in the enduro. The guys (and girls) from Munich, NSW, Johanneum Graz, Loughborough (thanks for cheering for us!!), etc. the list is really too long, who didn't finish enduro while being up there with the top, I'm sure you'll be back with better and faster cars. Also all the first year teams, I was really impressed.

But also a less positive note. As 99% of the teams were cheering for each other, screaming for a positive result for their closest competition, one team managed to do the opposite.
For example when the guys from Helsinki looked like they're were out of the endurance on their last lap (I was in the driver change area at that moment, just finished my part), this team (I'm not going to mention the name) started cheering because they thought Helsinki was out.
Also when the rain came pouring down and it looked like a lot of teams were screwed, I saw and heard this team cheering. In my opinion this is not the way to participate in such a competition and this team should take a long hard look in the mirror and ask yourself what you are doing in such a friendly event.
Obviously our (Delft) team wants to do well, but we felt sorry for ALL the teams that worked so hard just so see their car fail at the last moment. Something we had to put up with a couple of times already.

All that said, this event was great and I can honestly hope that next year it will be even bigger and of the same quality.

See you guys next year!!!
Miki Hegedus
Delft University of Technology Racing Team

Congrats to Graz for winning the event. A truly amazing piece of work getting the top results.

Wish we can come to Germany, but money probably won't allow it....

So thanks Mik, for posting my post a quarter before me...
I'm still amazed that we've finished third. Thanks to the team, you did a hell of a job. Thank to the organisers and sponsors for setting up this amazing event. And thanks to all the other teams.
Especially the Stuttgart guys, you did an amazing job with a first year car (and for bringing me home). I'm still figuring out how you can be quicker in enduro while there is twice the weight.....

@Mik: So you're driving again next year, you know you need to become quicker....

Hope to see you all next year,
Rob Buskermolen
DUTRacing

What an Awesome competition! We all really enjoyed it. Miki is right, the facilities were absolutly awesome. All the organisers did an incredible job, espechially when you think they have day jobs! The party was great, though it may have been better to put the endurance results up before we had all had a beer or 3!

The Delft guys did an awesome Job, it was brilliant to watch you out there. Miki, I wish it had been totally dry so we could see what time you really could have done in the enduro!

Helsinki were really unlucky with there problems, but as always you guys were great competitors and great friends to our team.

Both Graz teams did a really good job. Johanneum were so unlucky in the enduro, was it water injestion? And TU, considering the problems they had through the weekend did so well.

TU Fast were so unlucky in Enduro, their car was really quick!

It was great to see the Ozzie's Austrilasia teams on the pace, New South Wales would have been well on for stopping the Europeans if not for the blown fuse. Tim showed what that car can do and the doughnuts at the end were brilliant.

Loughborough were really quick, and we seriously thought you had us beaten! So good to see the other British uni's quick and up there.

We were really glad that the weather didnt actually effect the final result, cos as we said over the tannoy, we didnt want to benifit from a situation like that.

Finally to the Russians, those guys were knocked back at Scrutineering 6 times!! Every time they went in there the scrutineers found something else wrong, but they never gave up, even with so much to do and it was a pleasure to help them out. We seriously werent expecting the Sportsmanship award, and we were truely honoured to take it. The noise in that tent as we were walking up was unbelievable! I have to admit, I got a major lump in my throat when there car went round.

Personally, I made some really good friends this weekend, there was such a good atmosphere around the whole event.

I seriously hope that next year the US teams come over to FS and FSG, because I think this competition showed how competitive the European teams are! Be brave, come over the pond!

I also wanted to post up on here how great the event was. Thanks to Frank Roeske for helping us work out all of our shipping details for our car.

Unfortunately our team had a bad luck weekend, but the teams from Stralsund and Cardiff really came through for us. Thanks to Stralsund for the spare engine and thanks to Cardiff for offering anything in your pits that we could have needed. Unfortunately staying up all night every night doing engine swaps and such does not guarantee a finish but our team pushed back every time the car threw something at us. Overall it was a great experience, and being able to visit with the rest of the competitors in a relaxed setting at the Mahle party was a great time.

I felt really bad for Belfast as they stayed up all night with us on Saturday night fixing their rear diff and ended up with the same fate as our car, I think the same happened for Deakin as well. Congrats to Graz and Helsinki, only something like 7 points separating them in the end, a good battle right down to the wire.

Bret
Windsor Lancers FSAE