I think it is time to open this thread as we are just about to leave sunny northern Germany for cold and rainy Silverstone.

So if you've got any pictures, interesting stories, twitter feeds, general gossip, here's the place to post it!

Hope to see a few of you in the UK and whish you all the best of luck for the competition,

Cheers,
Lutz Dobrowohl

"Raceyard" Formula student Team Kiel
Suspension design

Does anyone have a proper info source? Stuttgart has a twitter on their HP but I didn't find any others on the net.

@fstotal.com: What are your sources? It would be nice if you set up a news section like you did for FSAE Cal! This was great.

Good luck to all teams. The first time I don't attend a competition our team enters since 2005 Fells strange though...

Here were are ;-)

Best weather, a bit windy.

Teams prepare their pits and cars for tomorow.

Follow us via twitter!

You can find first pictures here: http://fstotal.com/pics/category/10-Formula%20Student

The provisional run order for the 2009 Formula Student Endurance Event is as follows.

Run order is provisional and may be changed. This will be dependent on the weather

Run order for Endurance AM 9:00 am

Start Order Car # University Sprint Time
1 1 Universität Stuttgart 51.78
2 31 TU München 53.26
3 96 Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau 53.68
4 231 TU München 53.91
5 8 ETH Zürich 54.14
6 2 TU Delft 54.17
7 25 Berufsakademie Ravensburg 54.2
8 53 Graz University of Technology 54.53
9 49 University of Applied Sciences Munich 54.62
10 63 University of Hertfordshire 54.83
11 94 University of Applied Sciences Esslingen 55.14
12 5 Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences 55.2
13 4 University of Bath 55.32
14 12 Loughborough University 55.54
15 100 Oxford Brookes University 55.79
16 7 University of Karlsruhe (TH) 56.41
17 42 RWTH Aachen University 57.13
18 15 University of Strathclyde 57.25
19 40 Eindhoven University of Technology 57.38
20 55 University of Applied Sciences Kiel 57.38
21 6 Swansea Metropolitan 57.44
22 222 Polytechnic Institute of Leiria 58.1
23 3 UAS Graz 58.3
24 77 University of Leeds 58.32
25 89 Aston University 58.43
26 9 Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia 58.49
27 21 Queen's University Belfast 58.65
28 211 Queen's University Belfast 58.8
29 76 TU Bergakademie Freiberg 59.01
30 41 Technical University Vienna 59.02
31 29 Chalmers University of Technology 59.2
32 123 University of Central Lancashire 59.2
33 59 Swansea University 59.23

Approx 12:30
All Class 1A cars run together
34 500 University of Hertfordshire 58.63
35 525 ETH Zürich 59.05
36 567 University of Central Lancashire 63.49
37 523 Oxford Brookes University 70.67
38 507 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
39 555 Imperial College London


Run Order for Endurance, Approx 13.00

40 74 University Erlangen-Nuremberg 59.29
41 43 Brunel University 59.55
42 154 Karlstad University 59.86
43 65 Fachhochschule Wiesbaden 60.17
44 107 TU Darmstadt 60.41
45 10 University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden 60.46
46 17 Lancaster University 61.98
47 23 Ryerson University 62.02
48 62 UAS Regensburg 62.38
49 61 TU Braunschweig 62.49
50 88 Coventry University 62.98
51 20 University of Surrey 63.15
52 232 Newcastle University 64
53 71 University of Aberdeen 64.14
54 11 Lund University 64.5
55 288 Coventry University 65.62
56 58 Institut Supérieur de l'Automobile et des Transports 66.02
57 167 UAS Coburg 66.17
58 51 University of Birmingham 66.67
59 108 University of Liverpool 66.86
60 161 Manchester Metropolitan University 67.27
61 44 University of Southern Denmark 68.1
62 32 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 70.32
63 177 University of Dundee 70.95
64 209 Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra 71.09
65 19 University of Manchester 71.64
66 50 University of Warwick 72.47
67 84 TU Dresden 72.6
68 52 UAS Saarbrücken 72.9
69 69 University of Huddersfield 76.03
70 60 UAS Cologne 78.12
71 67 UAS Osnabrück 83.35
72 81 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi 108.21


Approx 16:00
All other cars will be free to run after all the above cars

What about acceleration updates etc.? Very curious here!

Best thing I`ve seen all weekend was Fredrick Larsson and Martyn at Brookes smashing the pitstop challenge tyrechange with only two instead of the usual three people!

(might have had something to do with Fred`s several years in DTM )

Calum

Unofficial top 10 teams without sprint results, no particular order.

Einhofen
TU Graz
UAS Graz
TU Delft
Stuttgart
Bath
Karlsruhe
TU Munich
Vienna

This thread really needs some more action.

DART-CG, I wish I was there as well, first time since 2004 I'm not there!

Yea, definitely needs some more action! I would be keen to see more photos of the cars, anyone got links to galleries? (Other than the pics from FStotal here
I have managed to decifer from Stuttgart's twitter page a few of the results. Apparently the winning acceleraion time was 3.76 seconds! Was it stupidly hot there, a problem with timing or the track, or are the cars just that fast!?

Racecar Engineering has a gallery, but the format is somewhat annoying

http://www.racecar-engineering...la-student-2009.html http://www.racecar-engineering...la-student-2009.html

There is video up of the Silverstone dynamic events.

http://www.playitback.org/details.aspx?v=184

It looks to me like the accel run is short. The course extends almost exactly 4 grid spots. Videos from previous years event show the course covering almost 5.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9HXrWDS2nI

Is the grid consistent? Did something change from last year?

estimate 7 m error at 32.5 m/s
8 m / (32.5 m/s)= 0.22 s

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Crispy,

you can find first results here: http://www.formulastudent.com/events/2009+Results.htm

Maybe they got the metrics all wrong? feet vs. metres?

I was also quite baffled. Well...we'll know who won in a bit I guess...

Double checked the acc. again. On the PDF results of the formulastudent website, it "clearly" says 68,7 metres (top left corner). I have no idea why. I know the rules say 75 m (82 yards)...

Oh the Silverstone straight probably isn't long enough for some of the faster cars to brake if they run the full 75m

Or they measured 75 YARDS!!!!

I guessed they did. NOthing to be done about that one.

Oh well the numbers look more impressive now

What is going on in the UK? Everything should be finished now right? The party started and teams celebrating???

Congrats to Stuttgart I guess.

Nice one and re-match at Germany

Stuttgart 1

Delft 2

Zurich 3

Bath 4

Helsinki 5

Congrats to all the teams.

Here's a link to my photos from Saturday http://helenjackson.smugmug.co...eWF6#595361654_ypAVh enjoy, share them with friends, but please don't remove the watermarks, if you want high res versions without watermarks drop me a PM