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Super Season for the H-BRS Motorsports Team
After successful competitions in Italy (Varano) and Austria (Spielberg), at the season end in Hockenheim this August, the BRS Motorsport team brought home yet another trophy. The team now stands in fifth place overall in the German rankings with Carola, its electric racing car. It has now joined teams from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the ETH Zurich in the top ten in the world rankings.
In the world's toughest competition in Hockenheim, the motorsports team fought its way into first place in the "best prepared car for scrutineering" category. In the efficiency category, in which the efficiency of the electric motor used is assessed, the enthusiastic budding racers took third place.
From among over a hundred teams from all over the world, of which only around seventy achieved a score, these successes are especially noteworthy.
The team principle, Benedikt Lenzgen, an electrical engineering student, was suitably delighted: "Since the team was set up, it has been our dream to stand on the Formula Student Germany podium and drive into a place in the top ten. Both of these things have been achieved this year with the help of teamwork and lots of enthusiasm."
And motorsports supervisor, Professor Dirk Reith from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Technical Journalism, feels vindicated by the team's development: "Added to the many technical innovations of the past two years, it has also now been possible to achieve greater consistency and excellent results in almost every category. This has only been done thanks to the excellent, close cooperation between all involved, from the university, sponsors and those in and around the team."
For the 2017 season, the racers are hoping to develop an electric racing car with hub motors directly on the wheels. The roll-out of the new car will be in summer of next year.
View the world rankings on www.cnfsae.org