This summer, August 28-30, the Delft team will organise a Baltic Open style formula student event in the Netherlands, the DUTch Open, "the first event below sealevel".

The idea is to have quite some different cars running with a maximum of 22. Therefore we would like to invite the European teams to come over this August to participate. To give a chance to as many teams as possible we limit the teams to bring 2 cars. This can be any FSAE car from the past.

We strive to get the expenses for you guys as low as possible. This will include a place to stay the night (Thursday night-Sunday morning), breakfast on Friday-Sunday, participation in the event and a party with BBQ on Saturday.

The Preliminary schedule will be:

• Thursday: Arrival and Scrutineering (workshop open for last minute work)
  
• Friday: Testing day @ event site + scrutineering
  
• Saturday: Event, being acceleration, autocross, endurance, followed by BBQ, award ceremony and party
  
• Sunday: Departure
  

In order to get the costs as low as possible we need all teams to give a small design presentation (10 minutes max) about their car for our sponsors. This event will also be held on Saturday.

Information regarding the event can be acquired via dutchopen@dutracing.nl or the teams website (soon), www.dutracing.nl.

We will use a first come first serve base to allow teams to participate. If we still have slots for more cars we might increase the number of allowed cars per team.

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Dear Formula Student friends,

We would like to invite you over for the DUTch Open, The first event below sea level to be held this summer Thursday 28th August, Friday 29th August until Saturday 30th August. On Thursday there will be the scruteneering, on Friday testing on circuit and on Saturday the event. The event will consist out of an autocross, acceleration and an endurance event. Because we are Delft and invite a lot of our Technical sponsors we ask you to prepare a small presentation (10minutes) of your car. You are expected to highlight some specialties of your car and the overall design philosophy for that car. It is like a small Design Presentation. The focus of this event lies in the fun of racing, like the famous Baltic Open. Due to time and location constraints we limit the entrance of each team to a maximum of two cars. This can be any FSAE car from the past until the present year.

A short overview of what you can expect: Entrance to our shop for last minute work, a place to sleep will be arranged, including breakfast. There will be a great party afterwards and of course a lot of burning rubber. We want to promote Formula Student in the Netherlands. And we provide our sponsors with a nice event and give them a chance to meet the people behind formula student. So for those of you willing to do some career planning, this will be an excellent occasion to meet our sponsors, amongst which are some of the largest Dutch international technical companies.

We would like to know if you will come to this great event and enjoy with us the beauty of Formula Student. We strive to get your costs as low as possible. Please let us now if you're interested and if so please inform us with the amount of people you will bring and the cars you would like to take along. From the cars we need year of build, a photo, specifications and what type of fuel (E85 or Petrol)

Hope to hear from you soon!

Kind regards,

On behalf of the Delft University of Technology Formula Student racing team,

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Hey Guys,
I sent a mail two days ago regarding our participation, maybe it has not made it through your spamfilter?

Regards,

Tobi

Already signed in for DUTch Open 2008

Delft, Eindhoven, Braunschweig, Aachen, Zurich, Helsinki,...

Thinking to sign in:

Stuttgart, TU Graz

More info @ www.dutracing.nl link to DUTch Open

The organisation promise for a suprising and spectaculair event, for more information contact me at FS UK.

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Guys,

Is this replacing the baltic Open for this year? If so, I think you better put us down for it. Going to make the track tight and twisty to suit your car or nice and open for us 4pots to clean up

JR

Well, last year we kind of said, that we would organise a "Baltic Open" in the Netherlands, so yeah in that perspective you can view this as a replacement. As for the track, it will be a nice mixture of the two, due to the nature of the location. I can yet not go into more details, but we have some nice and spectacular ideas. Oh and yes, there will be a skid-pad as well...

Yeah, BO will be relocated this year.

Which teams have signed up for now?

We have some problems with getting our 07-car to Delft and thought to ask what teams are competing (especially Swedish) and what are those teams' methods of getting the car(s) to The Netherlands.

Our truck has capacity for two cars but since FSG is only few weeks earlier, I think that truck is never coming to Finland in between those two competitions. So, either 07- and 08-car to FSG (will be a tough one to fit with sauna and such on-board) or a seperate transport for 07-car just before DUTch Open. And this latter one could be in co-operation with some Swedish team?

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Originally posted by jonnierice:
Guys,

Is this replacing the baltic Open for this year? If so, I think you better put us down for it. Going to make the track tight and twisty to suit your car or nice and open for us 4pots to clean up


JR

Just let me know how many cars (max2)and people (No Max) you will bring? Send an e-mail to DUTchOpen@dutracing.nl

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Originally posted by Kimmo Hirvonen:
Yeah, BO will be relocated this year.

Which teams have signed up for now?

We have some problems with getting our 07-car to Delft and thought to ask what teams are competing (especially Swedish) and what are those teams' methods of getting the car(s) to The Netherlands.

Our truck has capacity for two cars but since FSG is only few weeks earlier, I think that truck is never coming to Finland in between those two competitions. So, either 07- and 08-car to FSG (will be a tough one to fit with sauna and such on-board) or a seperate transport for 07-car just before DUTch Open. And this latter one could be in co-operation with some Swedish team?

Kimmo, are you in FSUK? I'm sure it will be the last thing on Malins mind. I think we have a trailer big enough to get our two cars in or we are taking the cars down on seperate trailers, so I think we will be pushed for space. Speak to KTH and see if they can help...600odd km closer as well

I'd say sign us up, however i cannot tell you if we will bring one or two cars. Nor how many people will come. It all depends on what breaks down and who sticks around to fix it after FSUK.

And we've still got a broken driveshaft on ye olde car. Will report with further details after the 14th of July.

We will most likely trailer each car separately if we bring both.

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Originally posted by jonnierice:
Kimmo, are you in FSUK? I'm sure it will be the last thing on Malins mind. I think we have a trailer big enough to get our two cars in or we are taking the cars down on seperate trailers, so I think we will be pushed for space. Speak to KTH and see if they can help...600odd km closer as well

I've chosen FSG to be my annual dose of FSAE/FS, so unfortunately I will not be seen wandering around Silverstone's pit.

If KTH guys are participating, I'm pretty sure they'll have their trailer again 120% full, so I guess we're on our own.

Good to see that "Baltic Open" is braking some new records. Four nationalities already.
Anyone from UK interested? E.g. Oxford Brookes. It would awesome to see a certain Craig D. behind the wheel again and especially win him. Pass the word in FSUK!

Kimmo, what do you mean 120% full, as you probably remember, it's possible to stack 2 cars on top of each other, 200% full!

KTH will most likely come with only one car, our financial situation is pretty strained as it is with both FSUK and FSG but I'm pretty sure we will make it.

We haven't really figured anything out when it comes to transportation, closest at hand is obviously putting the car on a trailer and drive down. However if we can find some sort of solution with a truck or similar that can fit both our cars I'd gladly split the costs (and then fly down )

Jonnie, you'll be at FSUK right?

Is KTH signing in for DUTch Open

Henning, I'm not living far away from Silverstone (leamington circa 45mins). I might pop down on Friday as I finish work early, but I will definitely put in a full day Saturday or Sunday with Maria (wrapped in as many Swedish coloured things as possible)...of course supporting Chalmers

This is going to be so cool!

Sorry Henning, apparently I'm not that good at math...

We'll have to think for your suggestion. For now it seems that if our truck stays in Mid-Europe, 07-car's transport will be by a van. It's way cheaper in boats/bridges and you don't have to drive 80km/h for 3000km.

Next weekend we'll have a building-up-07car-for-DUTch-Open-weekend. First some work with the car and then to our summer cottage's sauna for strategic meeting. After few bottles of...lemonade, we'll make decisive decisions about the transportation, number of people traveling and how close do we want to let the overall second team come.

Teams who are intrested for DUTch Open...

Aachen, 1 car
Braunschweig, 1 car
Chalmers, 2 cars
Delft, 3 cars
Eindhoven, 2 cars
Helsinki, 2 cars (and sauna)
Lund, 1 car
Stuttgart, 1 car 2007?
TU Graz, 2 cars
KTH, 1 car
Lancaster, 1 car?
Zurich, 1 car

12 universities, 18 cars

We have some places left,
who is interested in the event?
The event will be only dynamic.
Starting on friday evening with Autocross with lights on track, Saturday 4cars acceleration (best of 4), skid-pad 2cars (best of 2), endurance 22km CCW.
BBQ with Design talk (10min each teams) after this
DELFT presents party FS under sea level, same party as FS UK but better... We have space enough for it...

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Looking good Kevin!

Just to clarify things, here's what we decided in that strategic meeting mentioned above:
-07-car will be transported with van via "Via Baltica".
-07-car team will have 8-10 team members.
-The van will be there on time (hopefully) but the rest of the team won't be there before late friday afternoon. Any idea what time the AutoX will start?
-The overall second team will be about 12 points behind us after all the events.

Thank you Kimmo we are working very hard for it...

ATTENTION...

If teams want to join this event without a car that would be possible. Just let us know when you are coming and we arrange the rest for you, sleeping will be no problem.

SEND an e-mail to DUTchOpen@DUTRacing.nl and the information will be following...

@ Kimmo

The Autocross will start arround 18h untill 22h30.