Formula Racing Society

2…1… GO! The Formula Student Society held its first Go-Karting event at the TeamSport Karting Track in Camberley Wednesday 9^th November. The track itself is 375m in length and contains a sequence of tight hairpins and a challenging 450° banked corner. Due to the recently polished wood flooring, conditions were relatively slippery and grip out on the circuit was hard to come by. Bragging rights go to Nicolas Gonelle who achieved an outstanding time of 26.01 seconds, an amazing ³/₁₀ quicker than anybody else in that session. Overall it was a really good event; there was even time to grab some good old fashioned fish ‘n’ chips afterwards! So if you fancy yourself as the next Lewis Hamilton then please get in touch, as we will be holding many more Go-Karting events in the future.  

The Formula Student Society built its first car in 2008 for the Formula Student competition. This car never took part in the event but it spurred on the creation of the 2009 car which did take part in the competition. Since then the society has been going well, getting cars to both the 2010 and 2011 events. Weekly meetings are held in the Formula Student lab (opposite 02AC01) at 3pm on a Wednesday afternoon. If you’re free at this time and fancy popping down, you are more than welcome. There have been a couple of projects running on the car recently one of which was to re-design the push bar used for manoeuvring the car around while it’s not being driven. The other project was that the battery needed to be re-located. To get any more information on the society or on the car itself, don’t hesitate to e-mail.