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Welcome
back to UGRacing!
Welcome back to a new year at UGRacing. This
year we hope to learn from both the successes
and failures of last year and build on the triumph
of our participation in Russia. This quarter will be
a learning process for all students, but particularly
for our new Class II members, who will be led by
Scott Vickers as they focus on our developmental
side for next year. This years car is already into
the building phase as we prepare for Silverstone,
as well as exciting other international
competitions.
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WELCOME
Welcome to a new season and in many ways a fresh start for UGRacing! A lot has changed
since our last proper newsletter earlier this year. With new places and fresh faces (myself
included!), the start to our 2014/15 season has been dramatic to say the least.
After being unable to field a running car at the competition this year, UGRacing found its feet
again with a solid performance by our development team in their Silverstone design competition.
Out of 24 original entries, our rookie members finished in 12th place, beating teams with
budgets several times larger than our own. However the teams biggest success this summer
came in September at the inaugural Formula Student Russia competition. UGRacing won the
Class III event, bringing home the teams first ever tropies!As well as finishing overall winners, the
team also won the individual design and business competitions, and placed second in the cost
presentation.
Over the summer we have had to say goodbye to several long-term members as they graduate
or go on placement. It is always sad to lose team members, and we wish them the very best of
luck in the future wherever they end up. However this has paved the way for several members of
last years development team to step up to Class I and show what they are capable of.
Thousands of hours have already been put into the development of our 2015 challenger, and it
pleases me to say that we are roughly 6 months ahead of where we were last year. At this stage
we are looking to have the car built by the start of March 2015, a new record for the team.
Finally, on behalf of the team I would like to thank both the University and all of our sponsors for
their continued support. Their helpfulness has made this transition period smoother than I could
have imagined, and we would not be standing in such a strong position without them. I hope
you enjoy this first newsletter of what is arguably the start of a new chapter in UGRacings
history.
Andrew Reid
Team Principal
UPDATE
Powertrain
Work has been progressing on
stripping down and cleaning our
spare engine, we now have all the
parts that we need, so we should be
able to get this job completed fairly
soon. The ultimate goal with this is to
get the engine to a state, where it will
become the primary engine for the
car. Time permitting once this is
complete, we may look at cleaning
the other engine, but that is a project
for the new year at the earliest,
especially given the cost of parts
required.
The final alterations to the Wave
model of the exhaust have been
completed and this has enabled us
UPDATE
Electronics
The electronics team is the most freshfaced of all sub-teams, with none of
last years team retained. In spite of
this weve all undergone a significant
learning curve, which has allowed us
to arrive at a point, prior to our winter
break-up, where our progress is well
ahead of that of last years. We have a
fully assembled prototype dash and
data logging system, which fetches an
ECU hex table over serial protocol,
interprets the data and uses it to drive
our dash display and log it to an
inserted flash drive. Coupled with
software, which we have written to
transfer from the storage device and
visualise this data, in the context of
time, it will prove crucial in the testing
and tuning of the completed car.
Chassis
UGRacing worked tirelessly over the
summer months, to produce the steel
space frame chassis design for the
UGR-15. With the design completed
and the tubes sent to Duright
Engineering for laser notching before
the start of 1st semester, we were well
on course to have the chassis welded
and out of the jig before stopping for
Christmas exams. Duright Engineering
Unsprung Mass
The unsprung mass section has been
outsourced this year, due to our
workshop moving, giving us limited inhouse machine time. Our hubs are
currently being CNC machined by
Howco, a worldwide supplier and
processor of materials for the oil and
gas industry. We are also working with
Tannlin, who will help us machine our
uprights this year and have invited us
UPDATE
Aerodynamics
An area which UGRacing is currently
researching is aerodynamics and in
particular the aerodynamics in wings.
Research started early in this semester
with team members improving their
knowledge of race car aerodynamics,
especially in relation to Formula
Student.
Extensive work was then carried out
w i t h i n J a v a F o i l a f re e a e ro f o i l
comparison programme, to select
several aerofoils to analyse in greater
detail. The selected aerofoils were then
exported into Solidworks. From there,
a standardised test rear wing was
UPDATE
Welcome to Sponsorship
This year UGR decided to draft in a sponsorship team, to
take care of the any financial sponsorship deals and target
possible new sponsors. This years team is lead by first year
business student Christopher Haslund and he is supported
by six others, who work collaboratively to be as efficient as
possible. This year we are intending to target Glasgow based
companies as well as some larger business who we hope will
see the potential in investing in formula student. The
sponsorship team has also taken over the social side of
UGRacing, as well as the communicative side through the
newsletter and planning the car launch.
- Harriet Tymon-Johnson
CONTACT US
Sponsorship Manager:
Christopher Nrgaard Haslund
sponsorship.ugracing@gmail.com
+44 7541 232383
www.ugracing.co.uk
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