UGRacing’s 2025 campaign once again showed the team’s consistency and breadth across all Formula Student categories. For the third consecutive year the driverless team secured 3rd overall, strengthening its reputation with 2nd place in the static events and another podium in track drive.

In the main Formula Student class, UGR-25 faced setbacks that prevented dynamic competition, yet still managed 20th overall as the highest-scoring car not to run on track. Strong performances in static events kept the team competitive, with 2nd in both cost and business and a win in lap time simulation highlighting the car’s potential. The concept team also impressed with 5th overall, earning 3rd in design and another victory in lap time simulation.

Although 2025 did not bring the highs of recent seasons, it underlined the team’s resilience and adaptability. Each challenge faced has added to our foundation for the future, and with EV development accelerating alongside progress in driverless systems, UGRacing now looks to 2026 ready to work harder than ever.

The 2024 season brought success across all categories, with another year of strong results and new milestones for UGRacing. The driverless team continued its rapid progress, securing 3rd overall for the second year running and an impressive 2nd in the dynamic events, with podium finishes in sprint and acceleration confirming its speed on track.

The Formula Student team also rose to the challenge, claiming a top ten overall finish and topping the static events table with standout results in both cost and design. The concept team delivered the crowning achievement of the season, finishing 1st overall thanks to consistent performances throughout the week, including victory in lap time simulation and 2nd in design.

Together, these results highlighted the team’s growing strength in EV, driverless and concept development, and the depth of talent across every department. With our competition-ready electric vehicle and driverless technology approaching full autonomy, UGRacing entered 2025 with clear momentum and the determination to push even further.

Formula Student UK 2023 marked a new chapter in UGRacing’s history as the team shifted focus fully onto our electric vehicle programme, while continuing to develop in the driverless and concept classes. It was a year of transition, but also one that proved UGR remains competitive across the board.

The driverless team delivered its best results to date, finishing 3rd overall and showing real pace in the dynamic events with 2nd in sprint and 4th in track drive. Strong performances in design and business presentations also secured a place on the static events podium. The Formula Student entry faced one of its toughest challenges in recent years, placing 15th overall, but impressed with 3rd in design and a win in lap time simulation, underlining the potential of the new EV direction. Meanwhile, the concept team finished 7th overall, highlighted by another top five in design and solid results across simulation and business.

Looking back, 2023 was never about chasing the historic victory of the year before, but about laying foundations for the future. Each of our three teams delivered results that show UGRacing is growing in depth, capability and ambition. With our first electric car now in full development and the driverless programme moving steadily towards full autonomy, the team is well-placed for an exciting 2024 and beyond.

Competing against 61 other universities, UGRacing with UGR22 – the team’s last combustion vehicle entry, won Formula Student UK 2022 overall, becoming the first Scottish team and third UK team ever to do so. With twists and turns from the first day of scutineering, all the way to the final lap of the endurance event on Sunday, countless years of hard-work has lead the team to securing our place as one of the top teams in Formula Student UK history.

Across four days of sunshine and tough competition, the team placed first overall in the dynamic events category, with first, second, third and fourth in the sprint, skid pad, endurance and acceleration events respectively. A strong performance in the static events saw the team reach the final for the second straight year in the design event, coupled with an eighth-place finish in the cost and manufacturing event – a personal best in recent years.

The competition also saw our driverless team build on its impressive debut competition in 2021. After a challenging start, the team overcame some unexpected hardware issues to complete the acceleration event and gain our first dynamic points at the competition – achieving 8th position overall!

As a final farewell to the Glasgow team’s combustion era, the team cannot thank all our sponsors, university staff and team members, past and present enough, who made this incredible opportunity possible. For 2023, the team now has its full focus on our electric vehicle entry and furthering our driverless development, where we will be looking to design and manufacture the team’s first actuation systems, working towards our long-term goal of a fully driverless vehicle in the future.

UGRacing’s 2019 season was one of the most exciting in their
history. Strong off the back of their 2018 competition, the team were aiming to better than ever before. The team performed well from day one, once again being first into scrutineering and ended up being only one of three teams with four scrutineering passes at the end of the first day.

Taking a 3rd place in the Business event and our first ever win in an FSUK event in the Communications award cemented a strong start to the week. Ending up in the top 5 for the Sprint event and competing in the Acceleration event final were additional highlights. Unfortunately history seems to have a habit of repeating itself and on the final lap of Endurance UGR-19 lost power. This was due to an overly-sensitive inertia switch, a safety device required by the rules, and cost us 8 places in the final rankings with us finishing 12th out of 81 teams. Despite this bittersweet ending, the car performed exceptionally all weekend and has provided even more determination within the team to come back stronger next year!

2020 will mark some even bigger changes to UGR’s Formula Student entry. The first appearance of a full aero package will be the most obvious change, but there are plenty of exciting updates to come soon. As always, the team is extremely grateful to their partners who support this project year in, year out.

Once again UGRacing have smashed team records and had their most successful year at Formula Student UK. With everyone focused on avoiding a repeat of 2017’s endurance event, the competition saw several huge team successes: being the first team into scrutineering, completing scrutineering by 1pm on the second day of the event, winning second place in both the Business and Communications awards (our first ever UK podiums) and completing all of the dynamic events for the first time in the team’s history. These individual successes combined to cause us to finish in 11th place overall, 6th in the UK and most importantly, first in Scotland!

UGR-18 attracted a huge amount of attention at the event, with her distinctive bodywork and unprecedented performance in the dynamic events. The team wowed onlookers after the final scrutineering with a procession back to the pits led by our very own piper and even made an appearance on BBC News.

2018’s results have spurred the team on to do even better next year and everyone is more committed than ever before. With design work for UGR-19 having started in February 2018, we are well on our way to producing the next Scottish Champion car. The feedback from the judges has allowed the team to focus in on areas for improvement and we will be implementing some significant changes this year: notably the change from 13″ to 10″ wheels.

As always, these results wouldn’t have been possible without our dedicated partners and we are looking forward to working closely with every one of them again this coming year to push the technical capabilities of the team to the limit. If you would be interested in being a part of the team’s future then please do get in touch!

UGRacing have achieved their greatest ever finish in the team’s history at this year’s Formula Student UK competition. Despite running out of fuel on the final lap of the endurance race (something we will be getting sorted with our good friend Chris Forbes at DynaTune) UGR still managed to come in 21st, which could have easily been top 10 had that last lap been completed. The car proved to be incredibly competitive, being 12th quickest in the acceleration event and overtaking numerous cars in the endurance event with budgets far exceeding ours.

Nonetheless, 2017 was a supremely useful as a learning process. The feedback from the judges has provided the team with new motivation for the development of UGR-18. This should ensure that UGR-18 is more competitive whilst also allowing UGR-17 to be used for driver practice and publicity events, meaning both the car and driver are the best-prepared for a competition that they have ever been.

The support from our partners has been invaluable for our successes in the 2017 competition and as the team moves into the new year, we are looking for partners to support the 2018 car. As such, should prospective partners have an interest in being involved, please do not hesitate to contact us with the details provided in the relevant section of the website.