Dear teams,
Due to the impact of measures against the spread of COVID-19, we would like to make the following announcement:

We are aware of the situation and understand the difficulties your team may face. The most important thing now is your own safety and the safety of all others around you. We ask you to follow the instructions and advice given by local authorities and the WHO. This means reducing your contacts to an absolute minimum even if you don’t show any symptoms. Building a Formula Student car is not an absolutely necessary thing to do!

It is too early to say if there will be any changes in the event planning of Formula Student Austria 2020. We would like to ask you to stick to the given deadlines and help us in ensuring a rapid review process and provide early feedback, for your educational experience. Currently, we grant the following exceptions regarding the upcoming deadlines:

For those teams that are currently affected and are unable to fully meet the IAD and SES upload deadline of 2020-03-20 13:00 CET:

IAD and SES uploads that are incomplete due to missing test data, will be accepted.

• Please include the timeframe of any suspended activities affecting your Formula Student team, and an estimate of when you think you can upload the updated and completed document (within the IAD on the second page and within the SES: tab “Version History”).

Beyond this, we will ensure and make all efforts to minimize the consequences for you and your team. Account for regular updates and keep yourself and us informed. If you have any questions after reading this announcement, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Take good care, kind regards,
The FSA Team

For your reference we compiled a deck with all the answers and a few stats for both classes. 

Get it here: Answer Key 2020

Due to an oversight while compiling the competition handbook we forgot to change the split between the classes.
We’ve assigned 30 combustion slots and 28 electric slots.
The handbook is going to be changed in the next days.

Whilst we can do nothing against the Brexit, we can do something for the teams that take it upon them to attend FSUK and FSA back-to-back. (They are just separated by an 18-hour drive this year)

Marking a new step in the trans-European cooperation between events we will grant special scrutineering treatment (i.e. a fast lane, to make up some of the time lost at the EU border 😉 ) to teams that have successfully passed FSUK tech inspection. This is thanks to behind-the-scenes collaborations between the FSA scrutineers and their UK counterparts.

The specifics will have to be determined on a case-to-case base after it is clear which teams will start at both events.

A few weeks ago, Formula Student Germany, by many regarded as the leading FS event in Europe, announced their road map for next few years. They took a bold step in concentrating on what they think is will be the most interesting challenge: EVs with autonomous driving features. In summary, there were two main points:

• autonomous driving as part of all competition classes
• phasing out of the combustion class, resulting in an all-EV competition by 2022

Many teams were then concerned about the future of certain vehicle classes as well as compatibility between events.
No Worries. The European events are working together to make sure that there will be no fragmentation and to cover the demand for CV event slots.

• CV continues to exist as a competition class for now (including 2022)
• CV will remain part of the FS Rules, curated by FSA and the other events offering this class
• All cars compliant to the FS 2021/2022 Rules will be eligible to compete at FSA
• There will be no autonomous driving parts at FSA in 2020 and 2021

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