Engineering students from NUST-PNEC are on track for the world’s biggest student motorsport competition at Silverstone from July 8-12.
The competition – run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers – is the world’s largest student motorsport event and challenges student engineers to design, build and race a single seat racing car in one year.
Formula Student alumni have progressed to Formula 1 and hundreds more are now working at the world’s largest automotive firms helping to design and engineer the cars of tomorrow.
Applications were received from teams around the world and 135 – including Interactive NUST Formula Student Team – have successfully claimed a place for the competition at the home of British motorsport.
Ross Brawn, former team principal of the Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team, returns as competition patron and will meet students at the opening ceremony. Ambassadors this year include Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Executive Director Paddy Lowe, Sauber F1 Aerodynamics Head Willem Toet, former Formula 1 driver David Brabham and BBC science presenter Dallas Campbell.
Lining up at Silverstone will be 49 teams from UK universities and the main Class 1 competition will see 30 electric vehicles and 80 cars with combustion engines.
These teams will be from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, India, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, UK and Ukraine.
Formula Student 2014 winners Delft University of Technology, from The Netherlands, will return to compete in July alongside the top UK car from Oxford Brookes University.
Formula Student Chairman Jon Hilton said, “Formula Student is the world’s most respected student motorsport event and the sheer number of applications we have received for this year’s event prove it’s going from strength to strength. It’s not an exaggeration to say that those students taking part are among the best young engineers in the world and Formula Student provides them with a vital stepping stone in their careers.”
