It is my pleasure to announce that this year’s chassis design has been completed and construction has commenced. We are very grateful for the continued support of both Duright Engineering and Midtherm Laser who have laser cut the chassis tubes and assembly jig respectively. The tubes arrived on Tuesday with a view to begin assembly next week.

The design was completed just before Christmas and is an evolution of previous years’ boasting a more compact design and a lower centre of gravity.

We will keep you updated on further progress and hopefully have pictures of a fully assembled chassis very soon!

In the meantime here are some pictures of the finished design and the early stages of construction.

Mark Sawczyn

The finished design

Measuring the first few bends

Tube bending in progress

The finished main roll hoop, front roll hoop and bulkhead!

Good Morning and a Happy New Year to you all.

We hope you all had a very relaxing and enjoyable Christmas period.

We would like to update you on the first achievement of the year which is we have successfully managed to register for the Formula Student Germany Competition 2010.

This year saw the process change and teams having to complete a quiz on the rules before being successful in registering.

We hope this early success will be a sign of things to come in the rest of the year.

Once again thank you to all our sponsors for your continued support in the project.

Kind Regards

Robin Langhorn

We'd like to thank Castrol Oils who confirmed today that they will again be sponsoring us with 60 litres of their Power 1 GPS 10W40 Superbike oil.

With 4 engine and drivetrain related Final Year Research Projects taking place on this year's car, we are set for plenty of engine running, both on the dyno and the test track, making the opportunity to use top-grade oil with no cost to the team particularly valuable. Thank you.

We are delighted to announce that, for the third year running, Perkins Engines will be sponsoring UBRacing. In the light of the current economic situation, this sponsorship is more valuable than ever - we'd like to thank Perkins for their continued, invaluable support.

In addition to financial sponsorship, we look forward to working on long-term planning with Perkins engineers, setting up a management structure to enable effective knowledge transfer into future years, a priority given the large number of senior team members graduating after this season.