December 2010
3 posts
DRIVE joins forces with fellow Scottish teams
DRIVE attended a Scottish formula student track day demonstration at Knockhill, to celebrate Knockhill’s sponsorship of testing facilities for all Scottish formula student teams and a new agreement between the teams. The event gave us the opportunity to have a close look at our rivals and test the car out against the other teams. The new relationship with the teams will help with bulk orders of...
DRIVE welcome new sponsors
DRIVE has been joined by new sponsors. Marshall Slingsby Advanced Composites are providing pre impregnated carbon fibre and Racing Batteries has gifted a top-spec lightweight racing battery.
Marshall Slingsby Advanced Composites are a design and manufacture company providing products and solutions for Aerospace, Defence, Mass Transit and Energy Supply industries. They hold many ISO, Civil...
DRIVE make plans for 2011
Team DRIVE have been working hard to complete designs for this years car. Our main aims are to make the new car at least 20kg lighter than the previous car and better performing dynamically.
The driver has been reclined in the car to help lower the centre of gravity which leads to reduced body roll and better handling. The chassis has been thoroughly analysed and refined for optimum stiffness...
November 2010
1 post
DRIVE achieve success at Silverstone
Dundee University’s Formula Student racing team has achieved success at Silverstone this year. The small team from Dundee, known as DRIVE, were awarded a prize from E.ON for the innovative design of the crumple-zone on their race car at Silverstone last weekend, as well as achieving an impressive third place in the cost competition. The international Formula Student competition, run by the...
April 2010
1 post
Don & Low join the DRIVE team
University of Dundee students who have developed their own Formula-style racing car have been given the backing of local industrial textiles company Don & Low.
The student DRIVE team are taking part in the Formula Student competition, run by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, which challenges students to design and build a Formula-style racing car.
They will now be supplied with Don...
March 2010
3 posts
3D Systems build manifold for team.
Rule restrictions dictate that there is only one throttle restrictor for the engine, so for multi-cylinder cars this means either fuel injection or a single carburettor and a special inlet manifold. The DRIVE team were not able to afford or develop a fuel injection system, so we designed a special inlet manifold for our car.
Working with Simon van de Crommert, 3D Systems Sales Manager - Rapid...
Tayside Safety Camera Partnership.
In what must be the sponsorship deal most teams can only dream of, the DRIVE team has joined forces with (if you wil excuse the pun) with the Tayside Safety Camera Partnership to promote safe driving for young people.
As part of the deal TSCP are providing the team with specially printed cones so that the team can mark out courses and practice driving the various FS events.
In return for using...
Silverstone 2009 Story
On Wednesday 15th July the team made the long journey down to Silverstone to compete in this year’s Formula Student event, and there was no rest when they got there, as work immediately began to prepare the car for the week ahead.
The team had managed to get some testing in before the event so we knew what areas of the car needed to be tweaked and it was soon ready to undergo scrutineering,...