Revolve NTNU Newsletter January

NEWSLETTERRevolve NTNU JANUARY EDITION

Formula Student Representatives from the local automotive industry gather here to see what the talent-Any team that intends to compete in For- ed international teams have created. Theymula Student competitions is required to are intrigued by the creations and their cre-make it through quali cations. Although we ators love the attention. There is no doubtdid not qualify for Austria and the Red Bull interest from both sides.Ring, our hard work has paid o . We man-aged to place 7th in Germany’s registration Last year we placed 16th in FSG due to aprocess and also quali ed for the UK com- major loss of points in the Endurance eventpetitions. We can’t wait to compete at caused by technical issues. That is why ourHockenheim (Germany) and Silverstone focus this season has been on providing(UK)! stability and reliability to our race car. Ger- many’s Hockenheimring will be the perfectFormula Student UK place to show o our vehicle and enjoy competing against the best teams in FSG.Formula Student UK (FSUK) will be kickingo Revolve NTNU’s racing and competing FSG is not only competitive and highlyseason at Silverstone, one of England’s regarded; it is also innovative as seen by itsacclaimed racetracks. Our rst car ever, KA push for a new class of racing called “driv-Borealis R (2012) competed there earning erless.” We plan to compete in both theitself ‘best rst-year car’ in the combustion electric and driverless classes beginning inclass. Our 2nd car, KA Aquilo R (2013) 2018.earned ‘best second-year car’ ever atFSUK. And nally, our rst electric car, KOG Kongsberg and CompositesArctos R (2014), managed to place 8th inthe competition. We are very proud of Some of our team members started 2017these accomplishments; however, our with a two-day composites course atrelentless spirits are aiming towards even Kongsberg Gruppen, our main partner. Thisgreater success! gave the them the chance to learn how to properly install composite materials. They Formula Student Germany gained insight into speci c procedures and techniques. Revolve NTNU is now well pre-After our competitions in the UK, we will be pared for an e cient production phase.heading over to Formula Student Germany Starting in February, the same group will(FSG), one of the largest Formula Student head back down to Kongsberg to producecompetitions. There will be 115 teams that the monocoque, the load bearing chassisgather. The competitions gain attention of the car.due partly to the concentrated automotiveindustry and to the high prestige of eachevent.