Formula Student Germany 2011 Competition: - Updates, Pictures, Stories, and More

[TMichaels]

We just started setting up the event site. Follow us on Twitter, if you are interested in the progress: www.twitter.com/FSGinside (http://www.twitter.com/FSGinside)

Regards,

Tobias

[TMichaels]

We just started setting up the event site. Follow us on Twitter, if you are interested in the progress: www.twitter.com/FSGinside (http://www.twitter.com/FSGinside)

Regards,

Tobias

[Thrainer]

Thanks, that's amazing. I've added this channel to our FSAE list: http://twitter.com/#!/list/amzracing/fsae

[TMichaels]

OnBoard Footage of this year's AutoCross and Endurance setup has just been released : http://media.formulastudent.de/FSGTV

Regards,

Tobias

[BeunMan]

See the FSTotal facebook wall for weights of some cars:

FSTotal facebook (http://www.facebook.com/pages/FStotalcom/158738688444)

[TMichaels]

Today the dynamics start at FSG2011. We plan to have live timing available at http://tk.formulastudent.de

Regards,

Tobias

[Lorenzo Pessa]

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Today the dynamics start at FSG2011. We plan to have live timing available at http://tk.formulastudent.de

Regards,

Tobias </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

That's great!

[TMichaels]

Please note that the displayed times do not include Cones etc and that some of the times have to be corrected afterwards. Therefore only the official results are valid, not the time displayed in the internet for example.
No protests can be placed based on these times.

Regards,

Tobias

[TraderJoe]

There is also a live stream available:
http://www.formulastudent.tv/livestream

By the way, how do you like the live timing? Any suggestions for improvements?

[Diablo_niterider]

hey guys

great job on the live stream and live timing

cant think of any suggestions just yet.

keep up the good work

[Rob Bennett]

Enjoying the live stream, but was very disappointed that after watching Auto-X for two hours, just before my team (Cornell) took to the track for their best runs, the footage stopped tracking the cars round the course and just showed one corner with an overlay of the live timing.

[Pennyman]

Sunday morning in Cali, watching FSG enduro. Such a nerd.

[TommKG]

In the FSG rules 10.2 is Tmax of Skid Pad 6,184. In Hockenheim (of course due to the "Wet Pad") Tmax was lifted to 7,173s.

But i can't find the rule change for that which hurts the points of the front runners heavily.

Did I miss something?

[TMichaels]

Yes, you missed the team briefing where it was announced that the scoring was changed http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Regards,

Tobias

[Sam. B.]

The livestream is very nice! If only we could have that for all the competitions.

Just saw RIT have a DNF. Not nice for the team. The car seamed fast on track.

[Mbirt]

Waking up here in the US and watching the live stream was incredible. Thanks for the Sunday morning entertainment, FSG!

[Asalvo]

I just heard from team members that RIT did finish endurance. What leads you to believe there was a DNF? I'm starved for info over here.

[AxelRipper]

I watched the race, and I'm pretty sure I saw RIT finish endurance. Of the Final Four, only Oxford Brookes failed, and if I remember correctly, the only American team that I saw with a DNF was Cornell.

[Sam. B.]

Maybe I was confused with another car. The camera was fixed and gived an overall view of the track. I saw some marshal pushing a car that I tought was RIT. My sound was off too so I was not listening the commentator. Sorry! http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

[TMichaels]

Thanks for the positive feedback.
In general the internet live timing did also give information about DNF etc.
I heard of many people putting the browser window with the live timing next to the browser window with the live stream to have the complete coverage http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif

Any feedback about the layout of the information provided via the internet live timing would be appreciated.

We know that it was down during the final four. This happened because of just too many clients trying to view the timing. We rented a server in the amazon cloud services, but underestimated the number of viewers. We will fix this for next year.

Regards,

Tobias

[JVC]

Hello everyone,

I just finished posting the complete Scoring Tables for FSC and FSE 2011 online. My apologies for the slight delay. You can find them here:

FSC results: http://bit.ly/pMVgo6
FSE results: http://bit.ly/obwVSQ

Cheers,
Julien

[StevenWebb]

Can anyone explain stuttgart electrics disqualification in the acceleration event?

[Bemo]

For a short moment more than 100kW power output of the accumulators was measured.

[TMichaels]

Bemo is right, there was a violation of FSE rule 4.11.2 .
However, we will not publish exact numbers or diagrams without the approval of the team.

Regards,

Tobias

[TMichaels]

Some Endurance failure causes for FSE cars (I was busy during the FSE Endurance, therefore not all causes may be perfectly correct):
16 teams started and 10 teams finished Endurance:

Bayreuth: Loose wheel nut discovered during driver change
Köln: Loose wheel nut discovered during driver change
Diepholz: IMD tripped
Deggendorf: BMS fault
Zwickau: IMD tripped
Landshut: IMD tripped

Regards,

Tobias

[Bemo]

31 participating teams and 10 endurance finishers is quite an impressive rate in the second year of FSE. And that in this heavy rain.

[wagemd]

The live stream was awesome. I don't suppose there was anyone that captured or recorded it?

[TMichaels]

The video team recorded the stream and as far as I know it will be published.

The video team started uploading the recorded video streams. Right now the final four of FSC Endurance are available in 720p: http://formulastudent.tv/

Regards,

Tobias

[JasperC]

Don't forget to include the final four of 2010. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_razz.gif

(I know someone who won't be happy to read this - I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. http://fsae.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif)

Cheers,
Jasper

[blister]

Hey Tobias,

Do you know if there will be more pictures available soon on the FSG page? From FSE Endurance there is only material until the Greenteam and from Sunday there is barely anything (also no award ceremony pictures)

Thanks!

[JVC]

Hey guys,

I'm still busy uploading the remaining pictures. So no worries, they will be online soon, only it will a little while longer than some of you might like. So please be patient. They should all be online by the end of this week.

Cheers,
Julien

[Yannick]

We have uploaded an onboard video of the first half of the endurance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FLl3fJfj3Y

The second part should follow soon!

[TMichaels]

FSE Endurance (weather condition: heavy rain) fastest lap times ranking excluding cones:

München TU 56,462
Zürich ETH 57,034
Köln UAS 58,417
Delft TU 58,42
Deggendorf UAS 59,606
Stuttgart U 59,792
Eindhoven TU 59,86
Ravensburg DHBW 60,005
Karlsruhe KIT 60,417
Zwickau UAS 61,119
Graz TU 67,445
Landshut UAS 68,181
Bayreuth U 68,183
Diepholz UAS 69,001
München UAS 71,333
Wiesbaden UAS 81,359

Regards,

Tobias

[TMichaels]

FSC Endurance fastest lap times ranking excluding cones:

Ravensburg DHBW 45,116
München TU 47,029
Bath U 47,335
Rochester IT 47,37
Helsinki UAS 47,506
Karlsruhe KIT 47,742
Stuttgart U 47,943
Hamburg UAS 48,169
Graz TU 48,252
Hatfield UH 48,502
Ann Arbor U MI 48,515
Akron U 48,569
Tallinn TU UAS 49,55
Amberg UAS 49,56
Turin PT 49,65
Erlangen U 49,673
Ithaca Cornell U 49,679
Esslingen UAS 49,72
Freiberg TU 49,723
Pisa U 49,852
Stuttgart DHBW 50,148
Oxford Brookes U 50,355
Regensburg UAS 50,432
Graz UAS 50,872
Braunschweig TU 51,084
Hamburg HSU 51,487
München UAS 51,54
Uxbridge U Brunel 51,764
Viterbo U Tuscia 51,793
Nevers ISAT 52,111
Roma U Sapienza 52,127
Kiel UAS 52,552
Liverpool LJMU 52,674
Wolfenbüttel UAS Ostfalia 52,807
Berlin TU 52,859
Stralsund UAS 53,037
Kassel U 53,249
Toronto U 53,27
Barcelona UPC 53,457
Darmstadt TU 53,785
Glasgow U Strath 54,258
Kempten UAS 54,554
Kaiserslautern TU 54,596
Cardiff U 54,687
Weingarten UAS 55,149
Birmingham U 55,438
Padova U 55,587
Karlsruhe UAS 55,697
Coburg UAS 56,355
Moscow MAMI 58,518
Odense SDU 59,107
Port Elizabeth NMMU 60,011
Berlin UAS 60,191
Patras U 60,345
Bratislava TU 60,929
Dortmund TU 63,338
Wien TU 64,612
Latacunga ESPE 65,695
Mumbai Somaiya 67,706
Tampere UAS 67,812
Cambridge U 82,507

61 teams started in FSC Endurance and 25 managed to finish which leads to a finisher rate of 41% compared to a finisher rate of 62,5% in the FSE Endurance.
Looking at the Endurance starter rate the numbers change: 61 of 75 FSC teams started in FSC Endurance which leads to an FSC Endurance starter rate of 81% compared to an FSE Endurance starter rate of 57% (16 teams out of 28).

Regards,

Tobias

[RStory]

Maybe a little late, but I've put some photos from FSG online at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/r...s/72157627374965928/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertstory/sets/72157627374965928/)

[Tickers]

You think you're late?! I've just put mine on Facebook, I've got higher res versions if people want them.

FSG 2011 Pictures (https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.579966008243.2068456.193202001&type=1&l=519b5f7f98)

[mech5496]

LOL, that's exactly the post i expected from a bot, but hell yeah it is not!