UBRacing - University of Birmingham

We now can announce final details of the UBR11 launch event.

Friday 27th June 2008

1.00pm: Guests Arrive at Chancellors Court
Please note if it is raining, the unveiling will be in Mechanical Engineering, therefore please head there where you will be welcomed by a member of the team.

1.15pm: UBR11 Unveiled + Photograph Opportunity

1.45pm: Guests move to S21 Design Centre in Mechanical Engineering Building ready for presentation

2.00pm: Brief Presentation and video from team

3.00pm: Buffet in UBRacing laboratory, chance to speak to team and look at car closer

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We are pleased to announce the details of our launch event for our 2008 car, UBR11.

These are as follows:

Where: Chancellors Court, University of Birmingham
When: Friday 27th June 2008, 1:00pm for 1:15pm Unveiling by Chris Aylett, CEO Motorsport Industry Association

The unveiling will be followed by a presentation in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at 2:00pm, then a food and drink reception. 

If you are intending to come to the event, please e-mail us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it so that we know our rough numbers. 

Further final detail will be updated on this page.  

Today we have revealed the current status of our new car, UBR11, to UBRacing alumni. There are still many things that need to be put on to the car that are very nearly ready, however it is now time for our exams and to hand in our final year projects!

Below are pictures of UBR11 in its current state:

Finished Chassis, Front Wishbones

Side view of Car, with exhaust, radiators, ECU and Loom in view

Diffbox with temporary shocks, finished wishbones and diff hanger/chain tensioner

ATL Fuel Cell

Intake Plenum

We still have a lot to do, but we will be hopefully testing by early June and launching the car at the end of June for you all to see in its finished and painted glory. In the mean time:

If you are a UBRacing Alumni and you have not been receiving our updates and invites, please contact us, letting us know:
Your Name
Email Address
Cars you were involved in (i.e. UBR3 & UBR4)
Where you are now

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