UBRacing - University of Birmingham

We have now completed our second testing session in car 59.

Last Saturday we took 59 and a dozen team members to Millbrook proving grounds. Here we did some driver training on a basic short run track which mimicked key parts of tracks used in UK and Germany last year.

We now have seven great drivers to choose from for the competition, and we will be running a final driver selection during our next Dunlop test day in March.

Unfortunately, due to security and no cameras allowed at Millbrook, we do not have any pictures to show.

We are pleased to announce that we have completed our first phase of Dunlop tyre testing at Bruntingthorpe.

The Dunlop Test

We are working with Dunlop Motorsport along with the University of Hertfordshire to help develop and test a new tyre for use in the Formula SAE/Formula Student competitions.

This test was to put the new design Dunlop tyres up against our current Avon tyres to ascertain what needs to be changed in the Dunlops to make them perform better than the Avons.

We performed 3 full runs of around 20 laps each at the Bruntingthorpe Kart track, once in the Avons and twice in the Dunlops at various pressures. For each run, we were logging data on our DL2 Race-Technology data logger, which we must thank Deloitte for. We also took numerous tyre temperatures across the tyres and the pressures at each.

Overall, this was a highly successful test session for both ourselves and Dunlop, as we have learned a lot about the new tyres.

The Driver Practice

We also took advantage of the availability of the track after we had concluded the Dunlop test, allowing us to give all members that attended the test a drive in the car. This was a great opportunity to allow us to reward our hard work and just go for a spin in the car, and give us an idea of who might be driving at Silverstone and Hockenheim.

Pictures

Below are a highlight of some of the pictures taken during the test session. 

Mike Hart driving on the Avon tyres.

Ben Michell from Dunlop probes the tyre temperatures.

UBRX with the new Dunlop tyres.

UHRacing's 2006 car
 

We are excited to confirm that we have successfully registered for both Formula Student and Formula Student Germany. We are particularly excited that we have registered for Germany early, taking up one of the very few European slots available before the full registration opens in February. 

As our 2008 car is our 11th car, we have registered our car number as 11 for both competitions. 

We all hope that you have had a very happy New Year.

We have our chassis back from Motad and have a wonderful looking new exhaust for our engine.

We are currently aiming to have UBR11 rolling by February, and a testable car for Easter.

Welcome to the new look UBRacing 2008 season web site.

We have a lot of news to update on here, as well as a new team and a new car under development.

UBR11 Chassis Build

We have started the manufacture of UBR11, starting with the chassis. We don't have very much to show at the moment, but by the end of the week we expect to have a good portion of our chassis built. 

Perkins

We are pleased to announce that Perkins will be supporting UBRacing for the 2008 season. This an incredibly exciting partnership for the team, and we look forward to working with Perkins over the course of the year to help build the best car we can ready for Silverstone and Hockenheim.