by african-americans community leaders say it's likely to be the result of high unemployment and tough competition for jobs. well those are the headlines here on our t.v. time now for technology a day where we explore the latest and most innovative scientific advances that's next to stay with us. hello and welcome to technology update this month we're here at the world class racetrack hockenheim ring in germany where students from russia and around the globe have come to put their self-made to the test listening to weeks before germany kicked off at hockenheim brain and played host to the country's biggest race formula one's german grand prix tens of thousands of fans packed the grandstands parking lots and camp grounds to watch the world's best racers chase

the checkered flag despite a controversy over the communication between two for teammates spaniard fernando alonso claimed a champion champion shower. since the first. formula one race is on a larger kilometer passes. with. the place temporary home to the formula student t.v. the students raced on the smaller specially designed for the infield. in the same pits as the burners from big time search. inside on tuesday. but instead of the. formula one trucks full of tools and stashes of. each team's prized possessions. from the ground up to the university could offer it

disappears competition. technical university managed to make it to the fore many of the german schools in this quickly working to reconstruct in fine tune their automobile after its long trek across the continent everything's been carefully calculated in advance wasted if it can't come together on the track. of the engineers had changed about their design to improve over last year the main target has been shedding precious pounds from the car. to achieve this. twenty. savings of fifteen kilograms over two thousand and nine in the engine they kept the same honda c.b.r. six hundred four motorbike four cylinder switched to a lighter single cylinder engine failed their cost efficiency evaluation. rebuilt their intake and exhaust systems from scratch and incorporated an additional control unit to optimize fuel combustion giving them a boost from forty to seventy five horsepower the braking system uses the same pads

and cylinders switched the discs from honda to home made to be more economical they managed to cut eight kilograms by changing to a new wheel and shifting gears to cooling problem they encountered in two thousand and nine. this year's car came out twenty five kilograms lighter roughly three fourths as expensive and nearly twice as powerful. back at the campground in hockenheim this scene is eating up. the young engineers from some seventy five institutions in eighteen countries on four continents are every bit as busy mingling in scoping out the competition as they are setting up their equipment and running last minute checks to see if their cars are ready for initial specs. i hear somebody speaking the. guys come from. and how do you like the chances. tough competition from taking off the. u.k.

see this. stuff comes. to. the right and that's what's new about the car this year. it's much the speed it says it's all right good luck good results a. defining champion still still got a busy ten years such as where is your car well we're still waiting for the car to me made some pacing today this is why we have to. putting cotton frog in. the way what do you like your chances for another win this year you know i'm not bad because we were. going to cause it's national i don't we made a lot of problems on the engine the fuel consumption. and suspension makes the race better track so close a. shaman off

a long way why did you choose to compete form a student in germany well as we've seen from a student from say of all we've really seen the german teams and here came seems pretty much over the cars awful awful and so i asked why we want to bring our car to germany to compete and see our car compares with their cars houses they can hold up what do you think it's going to do i think it's going to do very well we have different style and some of the german cars so it's a different approach we've taken a single song on there i can't imagine that we've converted to a five fuel injected and i also turbo charge makes eighty two horsepower and a little over fifty four pounds of torque so. awesome and good luck make the same. as you guys made here from moscow how do you feel going into the test tomorrow. grades and waiting some more test and now we do in some final preparation result are some lake chick and sponsors seekers of course who are diets and snowy

german so it's just hopefully they'll get their fill and get a few hours of sleep but it's not like you guys just started work on this is a long time in the make a of course is three years' experience in the formula soon germany will spend you know one car each year and these car you'd want to able to is the best yet the best from russia and of course is result of follow hard work but most of all that hard work is something technology update has been following over the better part of each year back in october of two thousand and nine. meetings for engineers interested in the. idea. of collective experience to build. within a few weeks. each to. their head engineer had a concept for their two thousand and ten model only to beginning almost five months

before they for the first time could only be reached through months of projections calculations presentations to sponsors and painstaking assembly in addition to their academic work they also had to study up on the rules of the game for forming a student germany test early in two thousand and ten of well over one hundred applicants confirmed they'd be among the teams taking time and meant they were well on their way to building a successful. team. people very good. team because you have all the. money. so. do it in the back. so. skills. get all this stuff. stay

morning the teams are learning how they stack up against. tests of their engineering. came in the form of a quiz to determine what teams would enter the technical inspection screwed nearing . crucial because you can't rack up points in the other tests until you. had done their homework and to a pleasant surprise on the weeks first. indeed. we didn't expect it so at the best russian team today. previously the scrutineer in order was sort of flattery but it was a sort of contest and celestial contests and the first teams who pass the test. they have a chance to be first it's continuing armed with a bit more confidence from that initial result mummy joins the rush to transfer their car from the camp to the pit stops their home and workshop for the remainder

of the week's action in the same facilities where the formula one squad serviced their racers days earlier they need to set up a rapid response station to keep their car running at its best and adapt to any issues that might pop up in the course of testing two corners are close at the formula student pits increasing the sense of both competition and collaboration. the students already started bringing their cars into the pits here one of the russian squads from my d.d. is still having trouble getting the hockenheim last we heard from them they were stuck in a customs crossing somewhere in the middle of their trek across europe. is short for moscow automobiling road institute one of the soviet union and now russia's top technical universities with a history of nearly eighty years and five years of experience in formula students like their colleagues from across town in mommy they too have been hard at work all academic year on their two thousand and ten nicknamed indigo from their first design adaptation since september two thousand and nine they were several months to

the drawing boards before the frames started coming together in december then it was measurements assembly in reassembly on repeat until everything checked out their car may be unique for its use of a yamaha p.c. fifty snowmobile engine perhaps an innovation from the depths of an unusually cold winter even by russian standards. some help along the way from a venerated muddy old hand long time soviet and russian racer. in his nearly half century long racing career and for decades in monday's laboratory of high speed automobile. he spend most of his time behind the wheel or under the hood of many cars famously adapting several in this series of so-called this stone erasers. and i think the first car i had was the eighteenth model. drive the nineteenth and then my mechanic and i made three new. they went fully our own design element of the cations of the twenty first model couple for mobile the. main things we changed

with the con for a aerodynamic components is that. a new frame enhanced road stability and the aerodynamic components helped decrease the wind drag. or first time i raced the improved i was in. and then driving experience was completely different it was fabulous the. smooth i would have thought i was on rails. you must have engineering experience to do that and as for the understructure and wheels we've got very talented smart people and that ensures good results looking with bryce creative students like the ones involved in formula student that's really a great pleasure. to pieces started coming together for my d. this spring they use the same steel twenty is money for their frame also convinced it was the lightest most cost efficient material their own orthodox engine required

some homemade adaptations to their intake in oil systems but it stood to their tests come summer time they decided that simpler was better and certainly more economical on the whole they wanted a car that would be easy to drive by novices in connoisseurs alike as well as being relatively simple to service formula student germany isn't the only guest to talk in hiring during the week and the stadium is also filling up with fans for another event free to try and track. these students are busy putting their cars to test racers and race fans from all over germany and beyond it to test their own. the famous trip. and fixed summer talking public great days give a bottle and doozy of a chance to flex their muscle cars the rubber on their motorbike into today drag racing extravaganza it's about showing off your handiwork both in the line and on the track the clientele is a bit less clean cut to the engineering students who wander over to take a peek but they're no less obsessed with getting every ounce of performance out of

their vehicles and while the tires screeching smoke billowing high jinks are mostly for show and the drag track is a far cry from formula style laps some of the same mechanical savvy is on display. at the very least in the formula student teams could build a race car out of steel bores motorbike ancients and spare parts quick studies in team green with and rebuilding slick mustangs. of the scrutineer and to see how the teams are fairing to prove this stage of the race teams holy grail since it alone gave way to purchase a patient in all the events and tests were points but that approval has not come easy and only four teams from the entire field have gotten the green light on their first this scrutineers or scouring every last detail to ensure safety and test the engineers knowledge compliance with formula student regulations is the main goal

but it's equally important to be able to think on the spot and respond to criticism of their students you're going to be pretty prepared basically for their future life and work and worth your so i have to do what i do get fireman's from a customer and you have to work according to that. and that's basically what they learn about it so they have the rules they have to stick to it and also have to. think about the rules because saw not everything is written like the right but some things are logical and so you have to go this way and that i think is a good preparation for. screwed nearing certainly has many to scratching their heads for quick solutions trying to fix problems on the fly in the pits must go as monday is among those with a long list of issues closest to what's the status of your team at this point. we've gone through the technical examinations twice they discovered several major violations the first time but we managed to get rid of them over the course of the night that was yesterday they had

a problem with the cockpit templates we have to use for and showing that the cockpit opening and the cockpit itself is big enough for every driver there were some problems with the side walls of the cockpit so they fix that and all the templates are fine and. the major problem is resolved because. we have identified some remaining minor flaws as a result of the test they're not hard to fix but it's difficult in our case as we don't have the required spare parts we simply won't have enough time to fix them as today is the last day of the technical examination and tomorrow is already race day for. monday's russian rival to pass through nearing in moved on to other events. the team from ami seems to have run into some technical issues going into the break test let's see what their problems are. the stories we were telling guys which the whole system that we went to costs the rink tasks but there

was a problem with the engine just due to the missed on designs lation case was broken we borrowed a spam from another team and we're installing it right now so the question so i hope we can get it running was actually the spirit of the fullness student is there they. open to it they help it never the less they compete at the track and they're really serious to win but in the pits they are very very helpful . we took from the offer of the needed money still has to scramble to get their car up and running to take their allotted turn in the brake test fortunately they've isolated the problem and with a couple twists and tweaks right alongside the track. so the starter situation is sold but now the brakes start locking all four wheels at once and the judges can't let this kind of performance. we do see issue more complex than the last

decides to pull the car back to the pit stops to find the right pieces to solve the puzzle. and you. are looking for the problem part fortunately some of the student judges are in the pits with useful suggestions. and so what's happening is it. is on one side and nothing on it. so when you bring the one which is no mood to smoking because there's no friction there's no room. in sunday's first suspension from. these types of issues did mommy worked long and hard back home to foresee before packing the car off to germany they put it through hours of dynamic testing laboratory in race track facilities in and around the russian capital they tested the engine for overall power acceleration in fuel efficiency they tested the suspension to make sure weight was distributing properly and the car was handling it to do it and of

course they checked their brakes to make sure they responded to reasonable pressure and didn't exceed acceptable temperatures fortunately they also learned how to check for and quickly counteract problems with all of their car systems a skill that would come in handy in hockenheim after so many tries mummy is determined to see the checkered flag before waving the white one in with even the judge's ruling on the enthusiastic russian students they finally lho did. the right guys are you feeling just them smell stuff from. if we spend the whole day in the static testing room. the noise the tilt tests the noise tests in the brake test of course. some time and nine attempts to finally get there is breaks lots in policy when it's. all very happy because we're now ready for dynamic tests and the insurance rate. we can praising insurance rates gave us the most points but says

the main thing on going is we'll have to do is make it to the finish line but the other person our engineers can take a breather. have done their job the car is running and he's running wells in the us now up to one tribe is to show what they can do that on the racetrack. usually a big time race track like hockenheim rain falls silent at night but in this pit the cars are still coming and going while the other teams sweep that's because formula student germany has had it in the electric car competition to the electrics to get first shot at the formula student endurance track for the occasion giving us noise regulations generally been late races but these cars are so quiet nobody's complaining sixteen teams rose to the challenge of producing a car in this inaugural event including many universities also involved in the combustion competition team mind moving to celebrate claiming the most points on saturday's race who have to wait till sunday's aboard ceremony to see if it's

enough for the electric overall crowd. to build a call is a new togs for the students because alexei mobility is. and always very happy that we got so many teams. to do this call so this sells ability elsa's jools to adept was new tosca sunday marks the culmination of formula student germany the combustion car insurance race despite the late finish from last night's electrics the fans are already filling in for the early morning start. also joined by pressing big name sponsors who've come to see these top young engineers. german powerhouses like howdy and v.w. mercedes and b.m.w. . catchers for the event they say that while it's self-made cars on display here the formula student is ideal training for staffing their own design teams of the future. concerned about the extra attention the race teams know this event could

well be for all the marbles and they're focused on making sure their cars stand to the test. come a long way to cheer on their sides. around the track. right. before their start times the teams are lining up the tension of the big day is because the humid hockenheim air moment is out of the box early after several of the cars in front of them in the running order simply couldn't start when their flag went up conditions are tough judges have decided not to allow the teams to change to rain tires despite scattered and occasionally strong showers still mommy is pushing the limits of their traction determined to be the first russian team to complete this of a. race once twenty eight laps around the course for a total distance of twenty two kilometer between the points for finishing fastest

time for highest fuel efficiency there are over four hundred riding on the endurance competition nearly half of the winning total is money remembers from two thousand and nine when they came up to a short of the finish no points for partial completion. well the results i respect i would say were happening with the results because we've made it to the finish line which many teams did not their cars broke down along the way our task was to make a durable car and take it to the finish line mommy. is very close to we have. let's go. to a call to. call so i think a very good development. is the day goes on faster and faster teams are taking the track but the weather is not necessarily playing along dumping more obstacles on to the already tricky raceway caution flags go up periodically but many are simply struggling to find traction each spin off the course or construct from sloppy

turning cost a driver in their team a time penalty some cars are experiencing more severe damage than the occasional kudo and it looks like fewer than half of all cars will follow me to the finish line. the real burners secured the later start times thanks to their superior performance on the previous tests in dynamic events and the top seventeen teams all finished the course in under twenty minutes for an average of less than sixty seconds a lap team delft the university of michigan in the middle east to reno took the top three spots ending their hard working week on a high note i think one is very important to take home this experience. we have money and we go. no you have to. go to the people coming up with the last laps completed in the tanks check for fuel efficiency the formula student cars have done all they could while the teams

hustled their vehicles and equipment to trailers and clear out the pits is handshakes among teammates and new friends and rumors about who get the most nods from the judges with everybody cleared out and a bit freshen up we climb atop the pits to hear who's taking home the trophy. you can see the word ceremony is where the we will come off or at least where the glasses raise up their speedsters having spoken for themselves now it's time to celebrate the very good so very nice things to you you are a great spirit we have a great event here say a lot about. we became a little tiny does it seem that we now know what mistakes we've made so dave and we are idiots and move on and correct those mistakes and get through every stage of the competition and improve our schools by the next year she will be stronger and will work on attracting sponsors and others to go even further there are the guys at least the royal engineers here really engineers and we're celebrating a victory it might be a small thing to us but it's still

a big training plan all by below the green team from uni stuttgart grabbed the electric overall crown but their classmates couldn't pull off a combustion repeat teams from move by intuition took prizes for cost analysis running snail from amber in germany scored the most innovative power train in the rain ians from is behind were named best newcomers only aspects of design presentation and performance are up for consideration in the end the team that ran fastest and most fuel efficient backed up the most points from the technical university of delft in the netherlands. has promised me winning a crisis. doesn't get any better. finally everybody gets a chance to kick back and enjoy their successes winners or losers but when they make it back to their hometowns around the world it won't be long before their meeting sign next year's car that's all from formula student join us for more next month on technology update. and try to.

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