Formula Student Germany is an international design competition at the Hockenheimring, where students from all over the world pursue the goal of designing and manufacturing a single-seater formula racing car as a team and then competing against various, international competitors.
In the course of the development process, the students constantly have to face new challenges while going through similar or even the same processes of the automotive industry. This gives the participants a unique opportunity to apply their theoretical knowledge in a practical context.
In order to emerge as the winning team, it is not only crucial how the self-designed vehicle performs on the race track, but also whether the students can convince the jury of the overall package consisting of design, performance, sales presentation, costs and business plan.
It's impressive to see how the teams combine their diverse skills, enthusiasm and commitment to design a race-ready vehicle in such a short period of time that is fun to drive on the track and boasts impressive innovations.
THE TEAMS.
The BMW Group not only supports Formula Student Germany, but is also involved in a long-term commitment as the main sponsor for three student teams. In addition to financial support, the teams are also supported through mentoring, know-how and access to manufacturing technologies.
AMZ RACING TEAM.
Since the Academic Motorsport Club Zurich (AMZ) was founded in 2006 by students of ETH Zurich, it has produced a prototype every year to participate in various Formula Student competitions in Europe. After three cars with combustion engines, AMZ has been building electric racing cars since 2010. AMZ is the first Swiss team in Formula Student and one of the most successful teams over the past few years.
2023 AMZ Racing won the Engineering Design category of Formula Student Germany and finished 2nd overall with a great team performance!
ELBFLORACE.
Elbflorace e.V., Dresden's only Formula Student team, was founded in 2006 out of pure enthusiasm for racing. Starting with a small group of 20 founding members and four subsequent combustion engines, the team has been oriented towards the advanced technologies of e-mobility since 2011. With the integration of the autonomous system, the team has also been present in the "Driverless Vehicle" category since 2017.
All of this is only possible thanks to the cooperation of the various fields of work in the Dresden team. Because here, business, mechanical engineering, computer science, mechatronics, information systems technology and electrical engineering combine to form one big whole. Driven by one engine, the passion for something great.
MUNICHMOTORSPORT.
Since 2005, Team municHMotorsport has been working on the design, construction and manufacture of racing cars. Every year they conceive and develop new prototypes, using innovative technologies to bring their visions to life. The municHMotosport team invests a significant amount of their spare time in this project and are highly motivated: Some of them enjoy the craft, others the design of sophisticated components.
#passionworks is what unites them – passion to achieve their common goal.
WORLD RECORD FOR THE AMZ RACING TEAM: IN 0,956 SECONDS TO 100 KM/H.
In 2023, the AMZ Racing team reclaimed the Guinness World Record for the "Fastest 0-100 km/h acceleration of an electric car". The breathtaking success beats the previous record by just under 0.5 seconds and is also the first time that an electric vehicle has broken the one-second barrier. The vehicle named "mythen" accelerated to 100 km/h in 12.3 metres and 0.956 seconds.
