Post by jeroenk on May 24, 2012 10:55:42 GMT
Thank you Jiro,
The car's wheelbase is 1532 mm, so it's indeed very agile. The dynamic events in our competition consist of very twisty tracks, set out with cones on parts of the bigger racecircuit (like Silverstone, Hockenheim and the Red Bull ring in Austria).
Handling and acceleration is much more important than top speed. Therefore the car will have a top speed of about 130 km/h, but accelerates from 0 - 100 km/h in less than 3.5 s.
Besides it can corner at 1.6 g lateral, which is actually quite tricky to achieve at the small twisty tracks.
These high accelerations can be achieved because the car ways only 230 kg (and will loose an additional 15 kg when all carbon fibre rims, drive shafts and the custom motor invertor are finished) and has about 105 hp. After the mounting of the new planetary gearset as a final drive the torque will be 1200 Nm at the rear axles (!).
The hybrid Carbon Fibre Rims weigh roughly 2 kg per rim. This is less than half the weight of the Enkei rims which are mounted at the photograph I posted. Most serious teams in the Formula Student Competition use CFRP Rims at the moment.
The car's wheelbase is 1532 mm, so it's indeed very agile. The dynamic events in our competition consist of very twisty tracks, set out with cones on parts of the bigger racecircuit (like Silverstone, Hockenheim and the Red Bull ring in Austria).
Handling and acceleration is much more important than top speed. Therefore the car will have a top speed of about 130 km/h, but accelerates from 0 - 100 km/h in less than 3.5 s.
Besides it can corner at 1.6 g lateral, which is actually quite tricky to achieve at the small twisty tracks.
These high accelerations can be achieved because the car ways only 230 kg (and will loose an additional 15 kg when all carbon fibre rims, drive shafts and the custom motor invertor are finished) and has about 105 hp. After the mounting of the new planetary gearset as a final drive the torque will be 1200 Nm at the rear axles (!).
The hybrid Carbon Fibre Rims weigh roughly 2 kg per rim. This is less than half the weight of the Enkei rims which are mounted at the photograph I posted. Most serious teams in the Formula Student Competition use CFRP Rims at the moment.
Very excited for you!
