ҕl Motorsport faculty advisor Bruce Robertson (left) and student Jacob Ewing with a 2018 Formula Student race car.
At the latest Formula Student competition, held in Winton, Australia over the 6-10 Dec 2018, the ҕl Motorsport (ҕlM) studentswon several awards, impressing the judges and securingfirst place in Business Presentation for their electric vehicle and the combustion car took home third place for Engineering Design. This is the first year the ҕlM students have designed and built two state-of-the-art race cars to enter in the highly competitive international event – one electric race car and the other driven by a more conventional combustion engine.Find out more about our 2018 cars.
In March 2018, the teamsigned a generoussponsorship dealwith world-renowned Triumph Motorcycles Limited. This year's team hasbeen ranked third in the combustion engine class, out of 556 teams. The exceptional performance of the team attracted the interest of Triumph Motorcycles Ltd in the United Kingdom, who will supply the team with ultra-high-tech three-cylinder engines and parts that are similar to those it will supply for the Moto2 grand prix motorcycles.
The 2016 team designed an electric race car that made history in Melbourne in December by becomingthe first electric race car to win a dynamic eventat the Australasian Formula SAE competition, competing against more than 30 other university teams. It was also the first New Zealand-built four-wheel-drive electric race car, and the first New Zealand team to compete in an international motorsport event in an electric car.
The 2015 teamcelebrated a podium finishin the 2015 competition in Melbourne, Australia. The team placed first in skid pan, second in autocross and second in the business presentation part of the competition, where students had to ‘pitch’ their car to a panel of mock investors. The 2015 car was painted inpink and blue, in tribute to the late Christchurch engineer and entrepreneur John Britten, who designed and built the famous Britten V1000 motorcycle.
2013 was the first year a team of student competed in the competition, where theywonthe Inspired Engineering Awardat an international university racing car competition in Melbourne. The following year the team's car was25% faster than the previous year, and technically more sophisticated. The ҕl team designed and built their own racing car last year that clocked 0 to 100km an hour in under four seconds, and ҕl was thetop ranked rookie teamin the world out of more than 500 university teams worldwide.
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Formula Student race car 2015
Formula Student car 2018, racing on the track in the Australasian competition
Formula Student race car 2016
Formula Student cars 2018
