Heard that TU Graz just won design. (Congratulations!)

update: I've been told overall:

1. UWA (hooray we finally cracked it!)
2. Stuttgart
3. Munich

UWA: Dynamic events(1st), Enduro/Fuel(3rd), Altair suspension award(1st), Body award(1st), Powertrain award(2nd)

Don't know much about the other teams unfortunately.

Are you guys celebrating over in the lab brett?
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From what I heard:
1. UWA
2. Stuttgart
3. Munich

Some news about the Design Finals?
1. Graz
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?

Hey Kevin,

Again from what I've heard it was

Tu Graz, ETS, Helsinki then Delft.

I think that may mean Graz may be in the 4th spot but I'm not sure...

Yeah Mike, was for a bit, it was really drawn out though as we got an sms, then spent the next 20 minutes trying to call them!

It was my first time being there and I had a great time. I didnt get to see as much of the other cars as I had hoped to but thats cause our own car needed work lol . Some of those high budget teams cars are just mind blowing.

Congrats to all the other teams!!!

We had a great time at comp this year, cheers to all the teams that lent us tools and helped out at comp.

Where is everyone going out tonight??
We are in Brooklyn by one of the lakes and looking to celebrate with some other teams somewhere.

Our mobile number is 734-344-0052

Chris
UWA Motorsport

I'd say, quite a triumph for german engineering!

Im Süden werden halt immernoch die besten Autos gebaut

Wow, huge congrats go out to all at UWA for another amazing result! It's been a huge year for you guys - 2nd at Detroit last year, then 2 titles in 6 months at FSAE-A and Detroit. You'd have to easily be the #1 team in the world right now.

A great result for RMIT also, 5th according to the unofficial results from TUGraz. Well done gents!

Congratulations UWA! Its awesome to see Aussie engineers out there taking on the world and winning. Also well done to RMIT for their fantastic result. Top 2 in Aus and top 5 in the world is a massive achievement. I also heard Wollongong were competing but I haven't seen any info yet.

Also congrats to TUGraz and thanks for all the updates. Seems like you guys were the only real source of info and scores during the event so cheers for keeping us all informed.

Props to RIT and UTA. You guys had some bad ass cars that I wished to have seen finish endurance. SUNY Buffalo was routing for you.

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Originally posted by Davo:
Congratulations UWA! Its awesome to see Aussie engineers out there taking on the world and winning. Also well done to RMIT for their fantastic result. Top 2 in Aus and top 5 in the world is a massive achievement. I also heard Wollongong were competing but I haven't seen any info yet.

Also congrats to TUGraz and thanks for all the updates. Seems like you guys were the only real source of info and scores during the event so cheers for keeping us all informed.

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Congrats and agree! The TUGraz webteam has been an excellent source of up to the minute updates and really appreciate the true spirit of community. The photo essay by http://www.lightatwork.nl/dag1/ is fantastic too of the daily happenings. Most enjoyable. Thanks all!

Congrats to all teams who made it to competition this year. Getting a car ready for comp is a great achievement in itself. The foreign teams were amazing again (Tu Graz and Helsinki were my personal favorites). U of Evansville finished endurance (27th) for the first time ever, we were very happy for this year's car. Does anyone know what happened to Purdue? I saw them pull in at driver change and they never came back.

Lot of cool groups at competition, as usual. Very nice driving from RIT, and a really cool overall performance from Singapore.

I give UWA and RMIT a lot of credit. Well designed, well built, clean cars.. fast drivers.. and both very cool friendly groups to talk to. Really top notch.

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Originally posted by exFSAE:
Lot of cool groups at competition, as usual. Very nice driving from RIT, and a really cool overall performance from Singapore.

I give UWA and RMIT a lot of credit. Well designed, well built, clean cars.. fast drivers.. and both very cool friendly groups to talk to. Really top notch.

I think so too, re Singapore team, my home country. Thanks for the compliments. Nice to read it here on this cool Forum.

I had a lot of fun working the event this year. I was out there thanks to the kind permission of my employer (GM), and was there to help Detroit SCCA with the dynamic events. Thursday was setup day, and some of you may have seen me Friday at Skidpad 2 (I was the Michelin Man-looking guy in white around the starting line), and working Station 5 on the autocross course. Saturday, I was at Station 3 (last passing area on the "out" leg through the first half of the turnaround), again looking like the Michelin Man wearing an orange vest sized for someone considerably smaller.

The squiggle just prior to our passing lane had Everybody's Favorite Pylon, the apex cone of the exiting left-hander of the squiggle.

My knees and feet? They should feel normal again around Wednesday...

At least I didn't need to use a fire extinguisher this year, though Munich (Car 84 Orange/White/Black) had me wondering for a while as their hot exhaust system cooked off some lovely smoke and even lovelier plastic-burning smells from the nearby bodywork.

Thanks for playing safe, kids. And, to those whose day unfortunately ended at my station, also for mostly listening to the old fart (my 18 year old thinks I'm ancient as I approach my 40th birthday later this year) with the 2-way radio headset telling you what to do.

Speaking of everyone's favorite pylon, I was sitting at the "death corner" as it was called for a good bit of the autocross portion, must have seen 7 cars hit the same puddle and go out of course.

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Originally posted by Mikko Ahola:
This is a fun game...

We were flagged out with the meatball flag (black/orange) on the 3rd lap of endurance. Could not believe it. I think no-one did at first. First it was a bit confusing why did they do that. Anyway they would not let us continue. The first impression was that the driver was not inside the 2" rule (front/mainroll hoops, checked at scrutineering with all drivers) then it was the harness not being tight enough (checke when going to track). Then the final judgement was that when drivers helmet was against the headrest the driver could not see enough... And this all begun from a bit front-leaning driving position of our driver. We showed the organisers the picture at the cover of the event handbook (wisconsin from last years endu) where the driver clearly does not go into 2" rule. They said that the rules have been tightened from last year. They just didn´t tell that to anyone...

The most dissapointing thing in this point is that we really could have fixed these issues if they were shown to us at scrutineering. Now the DNF is based on a visual inspection during the endurance event...

So it will be an interesting design final between ETS and TU Graz. We´ll be around with Delft guys but I guess the effort will be quite minimal...

That's really unlucky! Sorry to hear you got caught out for something that should have been picked up in tech, especially with all this new increased emphasis on percy and head positioning.

Looking at some of your pictures testing your car, if you didn't change any of the headrest at all from them, I can see exactly why they would have pulled you, the drivers head is at least 6in from the headrest.
http://www.formula.stadia.fi/kuvat/FSAE08/album/09_05_2...slides/IMG_9229.html
http://www.formula.stadia.fi/kuvat/FSAE08/album/11_05_2...slides/IMG_9938.html

Was the driver just leaning forward when driving? Or did they have a seat insert that moved them a lot further forward?

Actually we did change the seat and so the driving position as we did know that the 2" rule would be tight. And we have to also agree that our driver does lean forward for quite a bit.

But why did they let us drive 3 whole dynamic events the day before? And let us on the track at all? And after pulling us out there were no remeasurements or anything...

If there are teams going for a holiday in NYC after the comp we are probably going to setup a small meeting in Central Park at the weekend. There will be members from Helsinki, UAS Graz and TU Graz... Day and time still open...

So did anyone take pictures?

Can you guys share your experiences at this year's competition regarding the rules and the judging? seems like some teams were disqualified for unintentional mistakes.

p/s: does anybody have the brochures/program from this year's competition? I have one from Formula Hybrid, maybe we can swap? I also got t-shirt .