FORMULA STUDENT
run over three days at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, USA. The event was won convincingly by the team from Texas A&M University, who were the victors in two of the four segments of the competition. Led by team advisor, Dr Make McDermott, the Texas A&M team won both the Acceleration and Autocross contests, scoring a total of 871.2 points. Texas A&M’s car is called
Alternative fuels T
Formula Hybrid, and Formula Student Class 1A
his year’s sixth annual Formula Hybrid International Competition was
‘Medusa’ and is powered by a combination of a 32bhp Yamaha YZ250F petrol engine and a 40bhp brushless DC electric motor, assisted by a li-polymer accumulator. The car weighs only 620lb (280kg). Second place was taken by
Brigham Young University’s ‘Blue Fury’, led by team advisor, Dr Robert Todd. Brigham Young’s team won the Presentation and Endurance segments of the competition, totalling 712 points. Blue Fury is powered by a 24bhp Yamaha WR250R petrol engine
and a 40bhp Oxford YASA electric motor with a 259V lithium- polymer accumulator. Third overall, and winner
of the Design segment of the contest, was Sweden’s Lund University, led by team advisor Stefan Skoog. Lund’s car is powered by a Honda CBR250 petrol engine, assisted by a 25kw, three-phase, low-voltage electric motor and Thundersky LFP40 accumulator. Lund’s team and car totalled 691.6 points. The top six in this year’s
Formula Hybrid competition, in descending order, were completed by University of California Davis, Dartmouth College and Canada’s McGill University. In total, 34 teams from universities around the world entered this year’s competition, presented by the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, the Society of Automotive Engineers
International and the IEEE, the world’s largest association of engineers. Primary sponsors of this year’s competition were were Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Toyota, IEEE and the New England Region of the SCCA.
TECH SPEC
Class: FSAE - Formula Hybrid
Drive: rear Engine: Yamaha YZ250F Power: 32bhp Generator: none
Drive motor: student- developed brushless direct current, 40bhp
Accumulator: lithium- polymer battery pack
Tyres: Hoosier slicks Coatings: Polydyn
Cal Poly’s ‘camber car’ will look strangely familiar to long-term readers of Racecar Engineering…
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