formula one stars of the future chase the checkered flag. 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 just before formula student germany kicked off at hockenheim rein 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 each team mates spaniard fernando alonso claimed the champions champagne shower. before his modern day make over hockenheim has been

a hub of german racing since the first track was built in one thousand and thirty two formula one race is on a larger four and a 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 they'll tells him to help their cars in the same pits as the burners from big time circus formula student organizers said to stay inside on tuesday the camp grounds just 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. in due course each team's prize positions they're still pushing your race cars to the ground up to be the best their university could offer it does years 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 it can't come together. on the track . of the engineers it changed about their design to improve over last year the main target has been shedding precious pounds from the cars. to achieve this they build the frame out of lighter steel twenty thousand fifty kilograms over two thousand and nine in the engine they keep 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 homemade to be more economical they managed to eight kilograms by changing to a new wheel and shifting gears to the 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. as. the campground in hockenheim this scene is heating up. the young engineers from some seventy five institutions in eighteen countries on four continents are every bit as busy mingling and 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 inspection. or somebody. come from. and how do you like the chances of. tough competition from the. u.k. so this. stuff comes. to. the right and that's what's new about the car this year.

it's much the speed and says it's all right good luck. good result. to defending champion sister got her busy ten years i was there is your car well i'm still waiting for the car of me made some pacing today this is why we have to put in cotton frog and. so 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 much more like you made a lot of concern and the fuel consumption is pretty good. and suspension makes the race that only spread so close a. game an awful long way why did you choose to compete form a student in germany well as we've seen from a student from a ball we've really seen the german teams and here against teams 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 how does this tag you know hold up what do you think it is and it is i think it's going to do pretty well we have different style than some of the german cars so it's a different approach we've taken on a single song on their case imagine that we converted to a five fuel injected and 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're doing some final preparation is all car 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 scene

germany will spend you know one hour each yeah and these current one able to is the best yet. from russia. is a result of. something technology. here back in october of two thousand and nine. interested in the. idea. 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 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 you need this. to develop skills. get all this stuff. stay morning the teams are learning how they stack up against. tests engineering. came in the form of a quiz to determine what. crucial

because he. and rack up points in the other tests until you've passed scrutiny fortunately the team from mummy had done their homework and woke up to a pleasant surprise on the week's first leaderboard. test result indeed we didn't expect it so at the best russian team today. previously the scrutineer an order was sort of lottery but it was a sort of contest and so actual contests 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 to 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 us gals 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 monday 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 russians stan. they had 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 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 stone erasers. and i think the first car i had was the eighteenth model that i drove the nineteenth and then my mechanic and i made three new cars they went fully our own design modifications of the twenty first model for mobile the. main things we changed with the conference and aerodynamic components is now. 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 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 commenced 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 in 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 and for it to try and track. these students are busy putting their cars to hold summit test racers and race fans from all over germany and beyond and to test their own engines and the famous try. and fix summer 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 law 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 in the formula student teams could build a race car out of steel bars motorbike ancients and spare parts quick studies in team green with and rebuilding slick mustangs. let's get back over to the scrutiny hearing to see how the teams are fairing swift approval in this stage just the race team's holy grail since it's the lone gateway 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 their students your favorite prepare basically for their future life and work and work your so i have to do what i do get violent from the customer and you have to

learn according to that. and that's basically what they learn about it so they have the rules they have to see. so it. holds so i have to like think about the rules because not everything is written like the wife but some things are logical and so you have to go this way and that i think is a good preparation for future work in high school nearing certainly has many to scratching their heads for quick solutions trying to fix problems on the fly in the pitch must go as my d. is among those with a long list of issues the closest still would sustain us if 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 ensuring 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's the last day of the technical examination and tomorrow is already a state of. 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. your stories are what's happening guys which the whole system that we went to costs the rink tasks but there was a problem with the engine is due to the designs lation case was broken we borrowed a spam from another team and we're installing it right now well so the question so

i hope we can get it running actually this spirit all the fullness student in. open to its help it's never. really serious to win but. 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 in the brake test 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 judge just can't let this kind of performance. we do see issue more complex than the last decides to pull back to the 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 on one side and nothing on it. so when you reach the one reaches noone smoking because there's no friction there's no room. so it's first suspension program. these types of issues did mommy worked long and hard back home to four c. before packing the car off to germany 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 flag. 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 the tilt tests the noise test in the break test of course. some time and nine attempts to finally get there is breaks looks in policy. agrees to all very happy because we're now ready for dynamic tests and the insurance rate. 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 engineers can take a breather. have done their job the col is running and he's running wells in the us now up to one tribe is to show what they can do 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 elects. and now we are very happy that we got so many teams just one you had to do this

call so this sells ability elsa's jewels. to adept. sunday marks the culmination of formula student germany the combustion car insurance race despite the late finish from last night's electrics already filling in for the early morning start. also joined by press and big name sponsors who've come to see the best engineers have to . be in 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 test. any of them come a long way to cheer on their sides when the car is jim around the track they're

getting the right. ceremony. for their start times the teams are lining up detention of the big day is because the humid hockenheim air momi 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 runs 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 live short of the finish there are no points for partial completion. well the results i respect i would say were happy with the

results because we've made it to the finish line which meets. teams to 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 to 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 a 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 dutch 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. no you have to. do 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 the new friends and rumors about who get the most nods from the judges with everybody clear down in a bit freshen up we climb atop the pits to hear who's taking home the trophy. you

can see the word serial movies where the we will come off or at least. with the glasses raise up their speedsters having spoken for themselves now it's time to celebrate the life very good so very nice things to you you are a great spirit great. say the love. you became multimeters it see we now know what mistakes we've made and we're ready to move on and correct those mistakes it will get through every stage of the competition and improve our schools next year she will be stronger and will work in attracting sponsors and others to go even further there are the guys with the rule engine is really engine is the way 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 move by intuition took prizes for cost analysis

running snail from imber germany scored the most innovative power train any 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. as a company winning a prize. 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 home towns 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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