Engineering and Design

Formula Student Germany was the event everyone at the HAN Formula Student was long waiting for. We had been designing, manufacturing, testing and preparing our car for the event that was from the 9 th of August 2016 to the 14 th . We arrived in Hockenheim and setup camp at the Hockenheimring a day earlier and collected ourselves for the big week that lay ahead.  There was a certain relief in the team that we had made it to the event after some tough days but there was also stress about our performance and about being able to showcase our passion properly. 13 passionate members of the team made it to Germany and on the morning of 14 th august we set about registering and setting up our pits and preparing for scrutineering. Scrutineering in general went well for us. Some changes were required as mentioned by the stewards but they weren ’ t major ones. However, the list wasn ’ t short so he team got to work and worked till pits closed at 12 midnight after which we had dinner...

In September 2015 I was selected in the HAN formula team which was the university team competing in Formula student races. Formula Student Germany 2016 was the HAN formula team ’ s first event for which we, as a team started preparing for in September 2015 even though the event was in August 2016. Since we were a new team preparing for our first event we naturally had to overcome lots of obstacles. We sourced a used engine from a Yamaha R6 which satisfied the 600-cc capacity rule that the engine is allowed. Similarly, we sourced a lot of components from our sponsors who were helpful and understanding. Since we are a first-year team, we did not have a great budget and the sponsors helped a lot and gave us the tools and resources to turn our ideas into reality. I joined the team as a steering engineer and we worked to research on different steering systems to choose for the car, eventually, after several choice table iterations, we decided on choosing rack and pinion steering ...