About Us

Cardiff Racing are a formula student team made up from engineering students at Cardiff University, every year we design and build a single seater race car to enter into the IMechE Formula Student competition. The team is formed by fourth year students who have chosen projects related to the car and also from volunteers from all years. Despite being large in number, we are a close knit team and our many team members all contribute a wide range of useful skills. We always like to encourage new members to join our team and pride ourselves on the excellent levels of team work, professionalism and atmosphere that are shown year upon year.

What We Do

Here at Cardiff Racing, we are a team formed of engineering students at all levels of training and to organise ourselves, we hold regular meetings where we can discuss the car, arrange maintenance sessions or discuss marketing. The team has its own marketing division, some of who's responsibilities are to arrange sponsorships, from local companies all the way to large multinationals and to oversee publicity. As a team we also need to foster team spirit. We organise regular socials (often motor sport related) to encourage team members to get to know each other. Past socials have included pub crawls, meeting to watch the F1 Grand Prix and go-karting and we have members within the team who are responsible for arranging the events.

The Event

The event is what months of design, building, and refinement of the Formula Student car leads up to. Cardiff Racing aims its efforts at the Formula Student UK event that attracted over 2000 students to compete last year. The Formula Student UK 2011 event will take place at Silverstone Circuit on 14-17 July. Within these few days the cars (and teams) are put through their paces and tested to their limit to find the best overall package of acceleration, handling, design, and reliability and economy.

The tests that the cars go through are split into two sections; static and dynamic. The static events are judged on cost of the car, presentation and design. This aims to judge the team efforts and abilities more than the cars performance. The dynamic events consist of a figure of eight skid pan trial, acceleration and sprint events, and finally the endurance event. The events prove the cars performance, reliability and economy. Each team is given a score for each event that is then totalled to give them a final score and a ranking for the 2011 Formula Student UK event.