Formula Student UPB Racing drifting drift

www.formulastudent.upb.de

Drifting with our Formula Student car till clutch is broken...Not so easy to keep drifting because of short wheelbase.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• formula
• student
• upb
• racing
• drift
• drifting

[paul289]

Not really. My school built ours in one year for $30k

[doofusboy9]

how about a stage 5 driver mod ;)

[tevinm14]

@Kaz8694 for 100000$ just buy a damn GT-R lol

[MrFrinkalink]

@unclesonnyonutube you really have no idea what your talking about, join an fsae team first and then talk, its a lot more than fabbing a tube frame, we have to to ansys and design reports and cost/weight/points analysis and everything before we can go ahead and manufacture anything. fabbing a simple tube frame may take a few hours, getting a optimized and built car in which all of the systems work together and fit together well takes a lot more than that.

[imafirinmalaser]

@leebee1989 600cc or less, unlimited cylinders, but normally people stick with the motorbike engines. 20mm restrictor on the intake. 4stroke. They limit the power alot because it's not about going really really really really fast, but more about the engineering aspect. And of course you need a good driver.

[leebee1989]

@SubyReeves

What sort of engines are used? Also what are the restrictions put in place e.g. can you stick a hayabusa engine in there ;)

[Transane]

testing that the rev limiter is functional? ;)

[derdarky]

this one sucks

[56682048]

Hudreds tons of $ sound really a bit exessive. as far as I know our school newer model with carbon body came to something around a bit less than $30k. TKTK.ee

And for those REAL home-made engineers: yes, you can build much faster and much cheaper car, but THE POINT is building it following FSAE rules. For example you couldn't go to MotoGP with Suzuki Hayabusa 1300 first of all because it's restricted to 800ccm or race with SmallBlock engine in 2000ccm rally class.

[Sliderleinchen]

@unclesonnyonutube

screw you *lol*

[Kaz8694]

@unclesonnyonutube I seriously agree with those other guys, perhaps $100000 is a bit excessive but something made for a couple of grand in a months time is in no way going to withstand the amount of forces the frame undergoes, these things corner at 1.4G a bodged up "1 month" frame will snap like a twig

[SubyReeves]

@unclesonnyonutube Also, these are not full time race engineers, these are college students. They have to design, test, and build a race car on top of having 15+ college credit hours a week. Also, the total price is calculated to what it would cost if you paid someone to build it, so its much higher than what teams actually pay for parts since we make every part of the car minus the engine.