Yesterday’s event registration quiz for electric teams contained erroneous questions. We’ve discussed this incident in detail, whether if we should rerun the electric quiz or not; either way it will annoy half of you.

Every year we put lots of effort and energy in FSA to make it a great event, fair and fact-based as well as fun for everybody. As these values are of utmost importance to us we came to the conclusion that we will rerun the electric part of the quiz.
Besides the miscount the anniversary question was no engineering question; furthermore we asked a question from the FSA rules, which were neither available for download during the quiz nor in line with our announcement in the quiz FAQs.

We understand that the already registered teams will be disappointed about this decision and will feel hard done-by. Nevertheless please accept this decision; we’ve invited you to a fact-based quiz, if chance had played a role we’d have had to announce that before.

There is one more thing: It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it.
It is one thing that our quiz contained an error. We’re always happy to discuss issues with you, but we ask you to keep good manners; which are also part our values. Please respect this next time you talk to one of us, either written or personally.

All electric teams with REG or NOEUR slot will get de-registered and have to retake the quiz next Friday, January the 24th 2014 at 17:00 CET. Teams with WILDC or TOP slot are not affected.

Best regards,
The FSA Team

If you want to try the 2014 quiz here you go – see if you can beat the Quiz Times of the teams competing at FSA.

• Quiz for electric teams
• Quiz for combustion teams

We are terribly sorry for the mistake in the electric quiz – It’s the 6th event this year but our 5th anniversary, a detail that got lost in translation.

There is no possibilety for us to recover the complete timeline of answers for each quiz participant – which would also introduce a new set of “fairness” questions. So, while it was our intention to base the FSA registration on knowledge as much as possible, we involuntarily introduced a certain degree of “randomness” – a challange posed to each participant in the same way though.

Update: the EV quiz will be repeated

Some of you might be curious how we handle your car number wishes. It’s a multi step process.

There are some basic constraints:

• 1-99 and numeric
• 1-9 are reserved
• 10-99 are valid preferred car numbers

1. First the top 3 per engine type from last year get either their preferred car number or 1-6. If there are overlapping wishes the team with more points gets the number.
2. The Austrian teams get either their preferred car number or the next free number if there’s an overlap. In case of conflict the team that scored better last year gets its wish fulfilled.
3. All others get either their preferred or the next free number. If there are two teams with the same wish the team with the better quiz time wins.

If two teams want to swap their car numbers both have to contact us within 24 hours after the quiz ends.

BTW: If you’re running an electric car, putting an “E” in front of the number on your car is allowed but not required.

Right before the start of 2014 we can announce the first important details for the 2014 FSA competition.

FSA 2014 will be held from Sunday, the 17th of August till Wednesday, the 20th of August at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria.

Registration starts on the 17th of January, 1700 CET.

Read all about it and more in the Registration Guidelines and the FSA Rules in the Rules Section

There hase not been a lot of activity from us since FSA 2013, but we have been busy in the background preparing for 2014!

Now the (european) 2014 season has started, teams are designing their cars and the first questions about FSA 2014 start to trickle in.

This is what we can confirm for now:

• There will be an FSA 2014 event
• The provisional date is 25th – 29th of August 2014 (not yet confirmed by the Red Bull Ring)
• Your feedback has been heard – there will be split scoring between combustion and electric cars.
• The rules will again be cloesely based on the FSAE (2014) rules.
• The registration will likely be in early January again

More information will come when the event date is confirmed.

P.S.: as you may have noticed from this post, the website will slowly be migrated to english-language-only.