Matthew Corner’s MathWorks Interview
UGRacing’s alumnus Matt Corner recently spoke to MathWorks for their series of blog posts featuring Formula Student success stories. Matt spoke about his time with UGRacing, his love of Formula Student and how the skills he gained helped in his job at Jaguar Land Rover.
Check out the interview here!
UGRacing confirmed for Formula Student 2019
Exciting news today as we confirmed our place at the 2019 installation of Formula Student. It will be held at Silverstone International Race Circuit between the 18th and 21th of July this summer. The team are hoping to secure another recording breaking result!
Congratulations to Andrew!
A massive congratulations to our old Team Principal, Andrew Reid, who has just started working at Williams F1 team. Andrew led the team for 3 years, including in 2018 when we achieved our best ever result. From driving the car to presenting in the business presentation finals – Williams are lucky to have him!
UGRacing Visitors
The team have been delighted to welcome several visitors over the last couple of months.
In November several members from The Hammermen of Glasgow dropped by to hear about our Silverstone success and our plans for the upcoming year. We are incredibly appreciative that The Incorporation have offered their support in previous years and hope their logo will be remaining on our 2019 car!
At the beginning of January GU68 Trustees Donald Coutts and George Leslie visited for a progress report and garage visit. We’re very grateful to the Engineers’ Trust who have granted us funding this year and we thoroughly enjoyed their visit.
UGRacing Q&A with IMechE
Chris Smout from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers recently reached out to the team to ask if we’d like to do an interview which would be featured on the IMechE website, and of course we said “yes!”.
You can read the full interview here
A big thank you to Chris for getting us involved.
Forrestburn Hillclimb Track Demonstration
This week the team took UGR-18 to Forrestburn Hillclimb track to do a demonstration run. The visit was organised with Monklands Car Club as part of our outreach programme to increase engagement with the local motorsport community and was attended by local college students and members of Scottish Motorsport. Despite the freezing conditions we managed to get UGR-18 out on a few laps of the hill climb track, with our driver Neil describing the experience as “absolutely awesome!”. We also managed to collect some data from the laps which will be useful justifying suspension design and improving our mathematical model simulations of the car. The event marked the last run of UGR-18, but was definitely a fitting farewell!
Testing at WSKC
We’ve made good progress on redesigning our unsprung mass and suspension systems in preparation for the move from 13″ to 10″ wheels. To aid this redesign we took UGR-18 to WSKC for testing. We have been able to collect vehicle dynamics telemetry data in order to help with design verification for UGR-19. The focus for the day was on suspension and unsprung mass, however, the team also ran noise tests on our exhaust silencer to validate Ricardo WAVE simulations. We were able to experiment with ways to minimise noise while maximising power, such as body panel dampening. The testing will be invaluable for the designing of UGR-19.
You can head over to our YouTube channel to watch an onboard video from the day!
2019 Team Structure
This season UGRacing has added over 30 members to the team. From a range of various backgrounds, the new members are already extremely excited to contribute and bring new skills to the design of the car and help with the smooth running of the team. With this large increase in the team’s size, we can spread our work more effectively and put our resources to better use.
With the large recruitment effort this season, the sub-teams have expanded significantly. As such, Human Resources & Logistics has split from Sponsorship & Marketing to form a new sub-team. This will allow for smoother organisation of specific events such as our annual car launch with more specialised team roles now in place.
This year also sees the return of our Team 2, made entirely of new recruits, who will spend the year working on a design-only project which will also be entered at the Formula Student competition in July. Each new recruit has been paired with a more experienced team member, a teaching method developed in recent years with great success
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