How These Weird Cars Are More Advanced Than F1

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When you think of the pinnacle of motorsport innovation, you probably think of Formula 1. But what if I told you that groups of students from all around the world design and build cars that, in some ways, are way more innovative than F1?

These student-built cars might look like go-karts with wings, but they are fast and very advanced. Weighing only about 245 kilograms, they can pull two and a half G in the corners and are powered by four electric motors. One team even took their car to 60 miles per hour in less than a second.

So, I recently went to Oxford Brookes University to take a look at their Formula Student car. I wanted to understand why they look the way they do and what kind of crazy technology makes them so fast.

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[Nickzzzera_]

I'm in the aerodynamic subsystem in a formula sae team in Brazil! It's a shitton of work (both in the design and manufacturing phase), but seeing your car on the track makes it all worth it.

[jman]

I love how I am watching this video while running a aero sim for the formula student team I am on.

[colorsofrebecca]

TU Delft car looking hot on the thumbnail but where is the photo credit???? looks photoshopped sus

[aaryananand]

I share my rocketry club’s lab space with our university’s FSAE team at ASU, and I see them work their asses off for building their car every year. They’re really amazing at what they do!

[eliasrenner]

244kg is pretty damn heavy, our car is around 200kg. I remember TUfasts car was about 150kg a few years ago when they were at the top.

[thommelmotorsport]

Thank you very much for the video! I started as a driver in a Formula Student team (CampusTirolMotorsport) alongside my studies and now I race endurance on the Nürburgring Nordschleife and work as a Porsche instructor! If you are a motorsport enthusiast and have the opportunity, help the boys and girls of your Formula Student team at university - it opens huge doors!

[senor_sensei]

Formula SAE US student here. It's very important to note that rules between the US, UK, and Germany will all have the same outline, but some very critical differences. Germany allows a lot more technology than the US or UK, mainly noting they are allowed to have powered ground effect (to a certain extent). It's a big reason why you see german teams or german competition produce world record times in dynamic events. To add on to the active suspension, it is good but when checking ground clearance you must do it at the lowest position so you can use it to ride lower.

[LaggerSVK]

As a former FSAE driver and vehicle dynamics control engineer I can say that while agility is exceptional, the technology progress of EV category in last 10 years is astonishing. I have driven models from 2012-2023 (only few models on competitions). It went from a simple single motor RWD to nowadays AWD, full aeropacket, torque vectoring, decoupled modes suspension and torque vectoring system. Nowadays the powered ground effect (aka few kW of fans sucking air from undertray) is a next big innovation getting in.
Just to quickly summarize how the main progress was cca.
single motor RWD -> twin motor RWD -> regeneration -> Aeropacket -> AWD -> Torque vectoring -> ? Powered ground effect ?

[PatrickMonitore]

Currently we are at Formula Student Spain! Next week is FS Germany in Hockenheim

[wdowa]

Wow
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Great job

[LikeZO]

I just finished my last year on an FSAE team. It's truly bittersweet. I'm going to have more time now to do other things in life, but I am going to miss the grind and excitement of designing, manufacturing, testing, and validating an FSAE car. I'm also going to miss all of the connections and bonds that were formed over the years. I highly recommend joining an FSAE team to anyone who has the opportunity to; it is very fulfilling.

[hawkeyes]

dudeee
ok theses cars are more interesting than any f1 can in the past 10 years
would love to see a arial atom with some of the turning tech u mentioned

[andrewkiedrowski]

Look at BAJA SAE races. They are super interesting and have wheel to wheel racing during competitions.

[deadhamster]

One thing you didn't get into (I am assuming its because there is currently no British team) is the driverless / autonomous parts of the European competitions. So if you want to have a look at even smarter cars, you might have to make a trip to Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Estonia or Norway

[RahulJC]

I was part of FSAE back in India and then in USA, working with FSAE gave me soo much understanding of not just designing but also how to talk to vendors sponsors etc.... I was happy to be a part of FSG2014 <3.

[WorldHello-nemn]

I am a former FSAEr from China fsec, now I am karting and also joined a chinese formula 4 team based in hong kong, FSAE is what brought me in, and thanks driver 61 for the fsae shoutout

[manu]

80 people just for areo is crazy. thats a whole team worth of man power

[edoardogamba]

@Driver61 Nice thumbnail image, where did you get that image from? I happen to be the original photographer

[lucbuijtels]

9:30 Greetings from Eindhoven, Love that you used one of my pictures. I was so hyped when it appeared on screen hahaha

[georgobergfell]

Used to be a Suspension guy in Formula Student for five years... Exhausting and challenging are perhaps the most fitting words to describe the experience :D