8 September 2011
Scottish Formula Student teams show off their cars at Alford
Photo opportunity: 11am on Saturday, 10th September at Grampian Transport Museum, Alford, Aberdeenshire.
The University of Dundee’s DRIVE Formula Student team will this weekend host rival teams from other Scottish universities at a demonstration event at the Grampian Transport Museum.
Five teams will travel to Alford in Aberdeenshire for the event, which takes place at 11am on Saturday, 8th September. The teams will demonstrate the dynamic events that they undertake at the Formula Student event at Silverstone to an audience of sponsors and interested members of the public.
The DRIVE team will have both their 2010 and 2011 cars running, and they will also be unveiling their plans for 2012 and beyond, including events to publicise the team and their sponsors. The other teams taking part are Aberdeen, Glasgow, Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde.
Dr Alan Slade, the DRIVE team academic co-ordinator, said, 'This is a chance to bring together the competitors and show all our sponsors what we’ve been doing and how their help has made it possible.
'It will also be a good social event and a chance for the teams to engage in good-natured rivalry whilst also showing off their cars to any interested members of the public.'
Formula Student promotes careers and excellence in engineering by providing the students with a real-life exercise in design and manufacture and the business elements of automotive engineering.
DRIVE earlier this year recorded their best ever result in the Formula Student event at Silverstone, which attracts competitors from all over Europe. The Dundee team not only beat their local rivals from every other Scottish university in the Formula Student but they were seventh in the Sprint event and 20th UK team overall.
Last week they travelled to the famous Prescott Hill Climb event as guests of the Bugatti Owners Club, where they enjoyed success with good, safe uphill driving. The DRIVE car was singled out as being a very clean, easy design with some very innovative ideas that might just find their way onto other cars.
Dr Slade added, 'The team also had some very interesting conversations with the drivers of the single-seater cars competing in the various championships, who like to come and see what new ideas the students have on their cars.
'We went there to see what we could learn from the hill climb racers, but it seems that they were learning from us. This helps the students tremendously as they can see that there designs are appreciated'.
Contact Alan Slade on 01382 385160 or by e-mail on a.p.slade@dundee.ac.uk for further information on the team or the event.
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