How These Weird Cars are Smarter Than F1

I'm in the aerodynamica subsystem in a formula sae team in Brazil! It's a shitton of work (both in the design and manufacturing phase), but seeing your car on the track makes it all worth it.

I love how I am watching this video while running a aero sim for the formula student team I am on.

I share my rocketry club’s lab space with our university’s FSAE team at ASU, and I see them work their asses off for building their car every year. They’re really amazing at what they do!

Thank you very much for the video! I started as a driver in a Formula Student team (CampusTirolMotorsport) alongside my studies and now I race endurance on the Nürburgring Nordschleife and work as a Porsche instructor! If you are a motorsport enthusiast and have the opportunity, help the boys and girls of your Formula Student team at university - it opens huge doors!

244kg is pretty damn heavy, our car is around 200kg. I remember TUfasts car was about 150kg a few years ago when they were at the top.

I am a former FSAEr from China fsec, now I am karting and also joined a chinese formula 4 team based in hong kong, FSAE is what brought me in, and thanks driver 61 for the fsae shoutout

Currently we are at Formula Student Spain! Next week is FS Germany in Hockenheim

Wow 3 commercials during video... Great job

As a former FSAE driver and vehicle dynamics control engineer I can say that while agility is exceptional, the technology progress of EV category in last 10 years is astonishing. I have driven models from 2012-2023 (only few models on competitions). It went from a simple single motor RWD to nowadays AWD, full aeropacket, torque vectoring, decoupled modes suspension and torque vectoring system. Nowadays the powered ground effect (aka few kW of fans sucking air from undertray) is a next big innovation getting in. Just to quickly summarize how the main progress was cca. single motor RWD -> twin motor RWD -> regeneration -> Aeropacket -> AWD -> Torque vectoring -> ? Powered ground effect ?

80 students in aero alone is insane

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Can they race upside down?

Look at BAJA SAE races. They are super interesting and have wheel to wheel racing during competitions.

I was part of FSAE back in India and then in USA, working with FSAE gave me soo much understanding of not just designing but also how to talk to vendors sponsors etc.... I was happy to be a part of FSG2014 <3.

Almost as many in video sponsorship ads as LTT.

I just finished my last year on an FSAE team. It's truly bittersweet. I'm going to have more time now to do other things in life, but I am going to miss the grind and excitement of designing, manufacturing, testing, and validating an FSAE car. I'm also going to miss all of the connections and bonds that were formed over the years. I highly recommend joining an FSAE team to anyone who has the opportunity to; it is very fulfilling.

Formula SAE US student here. It's very important to note that rules between the US, UK, and Germany will all have the same outline, but some very critical differences. Germany allows a lot more technology than the US or UK, mainly noting they are allowed to have powered ground effect (to a certain extent). It's a big reason why you see german teams or german competition produce world record times in dynamic events. To add on to the active suspension, it is good but when checking ground clearance you must do it at the lowest position so you can use it to ride lower.

woahhhhhh dudeee ok theses cars are 100000x more interesting than any f1 can in the past 10 years would love to see a arial atom with some of the turning tech u mentioned

80 people just for areo is crazy. thats a whole team worth of man power

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