This year, no Russian team made it to Austria, but they will be able get their taste of FSA nevertheless.
As part of the international cooperation between FS events, FSA will send some of their senior staff to the first ever Russian FS event in September. They will assist the local organizers in providing a great experience to the mostly Russian teams competing on an airfield near Moscow.
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.
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:
| University | Team |
| Aalen | E-Motion Rennteam Aalen e.V. |
| Bayreuth | Elefant Racing |
| Budapest University of Technology and Economics | bmemotion |
| Czech Technical University | CTU CarTech Electric |
| Dresden University of Technology | Elbflorace |
| ETSEIB UPC | ETSEIB Motorsport |
| Eindhoven University of Technology | University Racing Eindhoven |
| Fachhochschule Düsseldorf | e-Traxx Düsseldorf |
| Fachhochschule für Wirtschaft und Technik | Deefholt Dynamics e.V. |
| Helmut Schmidt Universität | Eleven-O-Six Racing Team |
| Hochschule Augsburg | StarkStrom Augsburg e.V. |
| Hochschule Hof | HofSpannung Motorsport e.V. |
| Hochschule Landshut | LA eRacing |
| Hochschule Mannheim | Delta Racing Electric |
| Hochschule RheinMain | Scuderia Mensa |
| Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin | Combined University Racing Berlin (CURB) |
| KTH – Royal Institute of Technology | KTH Formula Student |
| Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | KA-RaceIng Electric |
| Leibniz Universität Hannover | HorsePower Hannover e.V. |
| MADI | Formula Electric MADI |
| Oregon State University | Global Formula Racing |
| Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden | Running Snail Racing Team |
| Politecnico di Torino | SquadraCorse |
| Sapienza | Fast Charge |
| Slovak University of Technology | STUBA Green Team |
| TH-Nuernberg | Strohm+Soehne |
| TU Bergakademie Freiberg | Racetech Racing Team TU Bergakademie Freiberg e.V. |
| TU Darmstadt | TU Darmstadt Racing Team e.V. |
| TU Hamburg | e-gnition |
| TU Kaiserslautern | Kaiserslautern Racing Team e.V. |
| Tallinn University of Technology | Formula Student Team Tallinn |
| Technische Hochschule Deggendorf | Fast Forest e.V. |
| Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt | Schanzer Racing Electric e. V. |
| Technische Universität Braunschweig | Lions Racing Team |
| Technische Universität München | TUfast e-Technology |
| U.A.S. Ostfalia | wob-racing |
| UAS Esslingen | E.Stall Esslingen |
| UAS Munich | municHMotorsport E |
| UAS Zwickau | WHZ Racing Team |
| UPM | UPM Racing |
| Uni Patras | UoPRacing |
| UniBw München | ATHENE RacingTeam |
| University of Southern Denmark | SDU-Vikings Racing Team |
| VIT University | Team Ojas |
| uas cologne | eMotorsports Cologne |
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.
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
