Formula SAE is a student design competition organized by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
It involves the design and construction of a race car, which is evaluated in a competition
focussed on quality of design and good engineering practice.
Formula SAE was founded in 1981, aimed at giving universities the opportunity to participate in a regulated event that was interesting and appealing to students. Today, the competition has expanded worldwide, draws competitors from several countries and includes ten events, three of which are run in the USA, four in Europe (UK, Germany, Austria and Italy) one in Brasil, one in Japan and one in Australia.
These events use the same rulebook, with some minor revisions included for Formula Student UK and Germany. The concept behind Formula SAE is that the team has been engaged by a manufacturing organization to produce a prototype racing car to the given specifications for evaluation. The vehicle will be marketed as a non-professional weekend autocross race car.
Each student team designs, builds, tests and promte the prototype, that is
judged over eight events which cover performance, costing, design, presentation and economy,
and grade a score for a possible total of 1000 points:
150 of them are assigned by the engineering design event, 100 by cost & manufacturing analysis event,
75 by presentation event, others 75 by acceleration test, 50 points by skipad test, 150 by autocross event,
100 by fuel economy event and the remaining 300 by the main event of the competion, the endurance.
Every FSAE event takes place during four day, from Thursday to Sunday, in some of the most famous and
historical circuits of the world, such as International Speedway in USA, Silverstone in UK or Hockenheimring in Germany
