Formula Student: Where a Career in Formula 1 Begins

Working in Formula 1 is something thousands of people dream of, but Formula 1 can be a very difficult industry to get into. So in this video I will be talking about Formula Student. In short Formula Student is a worldwide motorsport competitions involving students at universities who build the car and manage the team, and currently the majority of people working in Formula 1 have been involved in Formula Student one way or another, so don't miss out!

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0:00 Introduction
00:45 What is Formula Student?
1:20 How does the competition work?
2:31 The Formula Student cars
3:31 Managing a Formula Student team
4:00 Team Bath Racing
4:27 Why it is important for Formula 1
4:52 How to get involved!

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[TANGYHATCHY]

What’s funny about this series is it puts on full display just how important having sponsorships and being backed by your factory in this case school is. my local university partakes (purdue me) in this and it’s basically a passion project with zero funding from the school and everything is done by the students and then you have teams in Germany that are almost a kin to a works program. it’s a cool concept but my problem with it is for something that’s supposed to be low on the totem pole and inclusive for all students it still requires absorbent amounts of money to perform at any level that’s satisfying and sustainable for a program.

[felixkunz]

It‘s funny how you say that some teams can‘t afford Aero due to lack of sponsorship.
Many teams joke around that the sole purpose of aero is that you have more surfaces for logos and sponsors.

[fsimeche]

Formula Student? Nah, never heard of it. Seriously, fantastic video, very detailed indeed. Hello to all the competitors in the comments section and hope you're all looking forward to the summer event in July

[rodrigopena]

I make part in a Formula Student team at Brazil! It's pretty awesome! I work in the aerodynamics area of our car but as you said, it's hard to build everything with carbon fiber, because of the money or the knowledge on how to proper use it. Nevertheless we are proud of what we achieve with so little. Congratulations everybody that makes the effort to keep pushing this kind of projects forward!!

[DillandShaj]

I did Formula SAE when I was in university (in Canada) but the amount of time and effort you have to put in outside of your regular school hours is crazy. The programs aren't well funded by a lot of universities. It's a great outlet to learn a lot of automotive fundamentals but I wish it just had more support from the schools.

[freak]

Great video despite the Bath/UK bias ;)
I've been a complete disgrace as a student, never dared dreaming about working in Motorsports (despite following with a massive passion), when I ended up on a Red Bull backed, Austrian Formula Student team by accident for three years, cumulating in an invitation to a job interview for a NASCAR team straight out of design judging. Despite the visa falling through, it opened the door to freelance GT4 race/data engineering and a full-time engineering position in Formula E, contributing to winning two double world championships so far.

The only thing this video is not covering: how useful Formula Student is for networking. I failed to finish my Master's degree yet I never applied for any job because people kept reaching out to me.

Formula Student deserves more content like this!

[sparkyj]

Being in formula SAE (the equivalent in Australia) for the years helped me get my current job as a firmware engineer at Haltech. The skills and understanding I gained in FSAE is regularly very helpful at work.

[guilhermeJamals]

I'm really proud being part of Formula Student, hope that it helps me get into formula 1 one day <3

[gabrielfiol]

My Alma Mater, the University of Florida, has one of these teams and I've been able to tour the garage and design area a handful of times. Those kids take this VERY seriously and it was very common to see the lights on very late at night because a few students were designing parts on solidworks or doing some sort of work on the car. It was really cool to see and my Gators even had a Porche sponsorship, which definitely made their jackets look really cool

[olliecane]

I’m literally in the process of joining my formula student team atm so awesome to see this

[mister_snoogles]

As someone on a FSAE team (the US based event that is similar Formula Student) and its much fun! Its stressful and i have no free time outside of classes and my team but its worth it. Want to be part of F1 someday!

[Ofitus]

As a fellow Formula Student member, love this video.

So much detailed information, and a really good analysis on how Formula Student work. Best of luck!

[rommellr.martin]

I'm Head of Business for my university's team and I'm really looking forward to the competition this year. Great video!!! My reasoning for joining my uni FS team is to start a career in motorsports!!!

[karthikmalayil]

I feel proud to have taken part in formula student in 2016 & 2017.

[comptegoogle]

It's not that they go for big downforce, it's just that they go at such a low speed that they need to have a large surface with an aggressive angle of attack to have some downforce that will make a difference (low Reynolds number aerodynamic). Fiberglass can be used to lower the cost and have more points for the cost report, the 600 CC engine is to powerfull to be at 100% for most of the track anyways. And yes it can be a good cradle for talent. Ten years after being the composite leader in 1999 for the FSAE at ÉTS in Montreal, I was an engineering lead for windmills repairs overlooking sixty workers on three sites in the US mid-west.

[AlexK]

I also took part in the Formula Student, when I was in University. Today I switch sides and now I am a judge in the cost and manufactoring event. I had met some from Bath Racing - but I haven't judge them yet. 😁

[neovo]

I'm in Formula Student right now, it's a helluva lot of work to design and build a car in time

[kaushiknarayanan.c]

I'm from formula student racing team from University of Kassel, Germany. This video is quite good!!

[AndresDCK]

I'm from the Fórmula Student Team in the university of Carlos 3 (UC3M) in Madrid, Spain. I'm in the economic part but a team always will need sponsors😂It's soooo cool this competition

[alessi]

Formula Student Electric is also pretty awesome all the benefits of developing vehicle dynamics with the added instant torque of motors. If you're interested come join the University of Nottingham Race Team :D Great video!