On Tuesday, the 8th of April FSA was invited to join the ranks of the Austrian FS Teams to present itself during the ÖVK lecture “Students build a race car – the Austrian FS Teams introduce themselves”. Our part of the presentation dealt with the history of formula student and introduced the listeners to the general concept of FS and the structure of an event like FSA.

Afterwards the Austrian FS Teams from Graz and Vienna presented their latest achievements in Aerodynamics, Electronics and Composite Technology.

A special treat was the location: the grand ballroom in the “Haus der Industrie” (“House of Industry”), built at the beginning of the 20th century, is a very ostentatious scene, and is also the filming site for the popular (in Austria) TV show “Wir sind Kaiser” (“We are emperor”). The building also contains one of the last few usable Paternoster-type elevators (also >100 years old!) which we of course took a ride in.

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Date: Friday, the 24th of January

Following this announcement ALL EV teams, except those with TOP, WILDC and AUT slots will be deregistered, including those on the waiting list.
The Quiz process, as mentioned in the “Registration Procedure” document in the rules section will be repeated from Step 2. (with 7 day offset, of course)
Only teams that took part in the original quiz will be eligible (and able) to partake in the rerun.
After the Quiz is over and the site with the results is restored, all other EV teams will be able to register manually without taking the quiz.
The Quiz questions will be about the FSAE & FSA Rules, as well as engineering questions related to all fields surrounding an electric FS car.

Eligible Teams:

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.