it's our high tech show technology update which today looks at how budding formula one stars of the future chase the checkered flag stay with us for that. 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 less than two weeks before formula student 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 in campgrounds to watch the world's best racers chase the checkered flag despite a controversy over the communication between two for a team mates spaniard fernando alonso claimed the champion champagne shower. before

his modern day make over hockenheim has been a hub of german racing since the first track was built in one nine hundred thirty two formula one races in a larger kilometer passes all the stands with their fans clear the campground place temporary home to the formula student teams the students race on the smaller specially designed force on the infield when steve gets going allison tuneup their cars in the same kids as the burners from big time circus formula student organizers said to stay inside on tuesday the camp grounds just outside are starting to fill up but instead of the tailgaters and vacationers cramming in for formula one trucks full of tools and stashes of space in from all over europe and. in due course each team's prized possessions they're still pushing your race cars in the ground up to be dipped this new university could offer it disappears competition the teams in the moscow state technical university mommy managed to make it to town before many of the german schools in this quickly working to

reconstruct and fine tune their automobile after its long trek across the continent everything's been carefully calculated in advance but that works wasted if you can't come to get. on the track. of the engineers it mummie changed about their design to improve over last year the main target has been shedding precious pounds from the car. to achieve this they build the frame out of lighter steel twenty six and fifty kilograms over two thousand and nine in the engine they keep the same honda c.b.r. six hundred four motorbike four cylinder switch 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 to discs from honda to home made to be more economical they managed to cut eight kilograms by changing to new wheel and shifted the radiators

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 trips to see if their cars are ready for initial specs. somebody. come from. and how do you like the chances. and from. that you. see this thing to say that's. right and that's what's new about the car this year.

it's not the speed at which it was all right good luck. good result. to defending champions from stuttgart are busy tending their sausages there is your car well i'm still waiting for the car he made some pacing today this is why we have to put in cotton frog and. so wait what do you like your chances for another win this year you know i'm not bad because we make a good job for the cause it's nice well i don't you made a lot of concern and the fuel consumption is really good. and suspension makes the race better track so well it's a. shame an awful long way why did you choose to compete for me a student in germany well as we've seen from a student from say it all we've really seen the german teams and european seems

pretty much over the cars awful awful and so 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 be a very well. different style than some of the german cars so it's a different approach we've taken on a single cylinder 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 to more test and now we doing some final preparation is all car some lake chick and sponsors seekers of course who are diets and snow eating german so it's just well 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 scene

germany will spend you know one car each year and the starry one able to is the best yet. from russia. is a result of. something technology. back in october of two thousand and nine. interested in. a few years of collective experience to. within a few weeks. each. 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 early in two thousand and ten of well over one hundred applicants confirmed they'd be among the teams taking time and they were well on their way to building a successful. team. people . very good. because you have all the. money. so. do it in the back. so you need this. skills. get all this. morning the teams are learning how they stack up against. tests of their engineering. came in the form of

a quiz to determine the teams would enter the. crucial because he. can't rack up points in the other tests until you've passed scrutiny fortunately the team from miami had done their homework and woke up to a pleasant surprise on the week's first leaderboard. result indeed we didn't expect it so at the best russian team today. previously the scrutineer in order was. but it was a sort of contest into actual contests and the first teams who pass the tests. 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 to the formula student pits increasing the sense of both competition in collaboration. the student teams have already started bringing their cars into the pits here one of the russian squads from musk else my de 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 automobile and 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 stay. some help along the way from a venerated muddy old long time soviet and russian racer. in his nearly half century long racing career and for decades in monday's laboratory of high speed automobiles he spent most of his time behind the wheel or under the hood of many cars famously adapting several in this series of so-called this erasers. i think the first car i had was the eighteenth model that i drive the nineteenth and then my mechanic and i made three new. they went fully our own design a modification of the twenty first model for mobile the. main things we changed with the. aerodynamic components is. a new frame enhanced road stability and the aerodynamic components helped decrease the wind drag.

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 with bryce creative students like the ones involved in formula student that's really a great pleasure. to pieces started coming together for my deed this spring they use the same steel twenty is money for their frame also convinced it was delighted most cost efficient material. 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 and connoisseurs alike as well as

being relatively simple to service. students germany isn't the only guest in hockenheim ring during the week. and the stadium is also filling up with fans for another event over it to try and track. the students or museum putting their cars holtzman test racers and race fans from all over germany and beyond to test their own attention to the famous trail. now and six some are talking public race days give a little and doozy of a chance to flex their muscle cars. rubber on their motorbike into today drag racing extravaganza it's about showing off your handiwork both in the lights 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 lapsed some of the same mechanical savvy is on display

. at the very least if the formula student teams could build a race car out of steel bores motorbike ancients and spare parts to be quick studies in tim kring with and rebuilding slick mustangs. let's get back over to the scrutineer and to see how the teams are fairing swift approval in this stage of the race to use holy grail since it's the lone gay way to purchase a patient in all the events and tests where points are one 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 their students your favorite prepare basically for their future life and work and that encourage your so i have to do what i do get requirements from the

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. so it. holds i have to like think about the rules because saw not everything is written like the white but some things are logical and so you have to go this way and that i think is a good preparation for future work you might screw nearing certainly has many to scratching their heads for quick solutions trying to fix problems on the fly in the pitch 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. 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 . monday's russian writes of 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. you start it was happening guys would still hold the system that we went to costs the rink tasks but there was a problem with the engine it was due to them is my salacious 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. open to its help it's never. really serious to win but in the pits very very helpful. with a friendly offer of the needed still has to scramble to get their car up and running to take their allotted turn and. fortunately they've isolated the problem and with the. right alongside the track. so the starter situation is sold but now the brakes aren't 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 back to the pit stops to find the right pieces to solve the puzzle. and you. are

looking for the problem fortunately some of the student judges are in the pits with useful suggestions. and so what's happening is it. is only one side and nothing. so when you bring the one which is no mood to smoking because there's no friction. soon it'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 an quickly counteract problems with all of their car systems

a skill that would come in handy in hockenheim after so many tries determined to see the checkered. ag before waving the white one in with even the judges rooting on the enthusiastic russian students they finally did. it is are you feeling just. if we spend the whole day in the static testing room. the noise tests the noise test and the brake test of course. some time in nine attempts to finally get those breaks locks in ponce with. a grace role very happy because we're now ready for dynamic tests and the insurance rates. and we can brazing insurance rates gave us the most points but says the main thing ongoing will have to do is make it to the finish line but the other person or engineers can take a breather they have done their job the car is running and it's running well in the

u.s. now up to one tribe is to show what they can do but on the racetrack. usually a big time race track like hockenheim ring 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 in durance 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 universities also involved in the combustion competition mind moving to celebrate claiming the most points on saturday's race who will 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 elected.

and now we are very happy that we got so many teams. to do this call so this sells ability elsa's jewels. to adept was. sunday marks the culmination of formula student germany 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 press and big name sponsors who've come to see the best these top young engineers have to offer german powerhouses like you 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 far from 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. yet any of them have come

a long way to cheer on their sides when the car is jim around the track they're getting it right. ceremony. 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 event. the race one's twenty eight laps around the course for a total distance of twenty two kilometers between the points for finishing fastest and for highest fuel efficiency there are over four hundred riding on the endurance competition nearly half of the winning total is momi remembers from two thousand and nine where they came up to about short of the finish there are 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 means. 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 excellent it's very close. we have here from the let's go. to a call to. call so i think a very good development. is the deed 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 flag school a periodic lead but many are simply struggling to find traction the spin off the course or construct from sloppy turning cost the driver in their team a time penalty some course are experiencing more severe damage than the occasional coon though 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 in 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 very important to take home this experience. we have money and we go. out to the people coming up with the last laps completed in the tanks checked 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 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 words here in movies where do we come off or at least. where the glasses raise up their speedsters having spoken for themselves now it's time to celebrate it was very good so very nice things to you you are great spirit really great in here say the love. you became multimeters it seems that we now know what mistakes we've made over this and we're ready to move on and correct those mistakes it will get through every stage of the competition and improve our schools by the next year she will be stronger and we're working to try to sponsors and others to go even further there are the guys with 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 but not by be at the the green team from uni stuttgart grabbed the electric overall crown but their classmates couldn't pull off a combustion repeat teams from mumbai into

a ship took prizes for cost analysis running smale from ember germany scored the most innovative power train and iranians from is behind were named best new comers all aspects of design presentation and performance are up for consideration in the end the team that ran fast isn't most fuel efficient racked up the most points from the technical university of delft in the netherlands. is a scramble feeling when a crisis. doesn't get any better. finally everybody gets a chance to kick back and enjoy their successes winners or losers when they make it back to their hometowns all around the world it won't be long before they're meeting a zine next year's car that's all from formula student join us for more next month on technology update children enjoy their.

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