FS AUSTRIA TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 2013, ISSUE 6 WWW.DUTRACING.NL
Delft Bulletin - Formula Student Austria
Formula Student Austria Red Bull Ring, Spielberg While the new core team is already starting up for next year’s car, the DUT13 arrived in Austria this morning. As for today, the Formula Student Austria competition has officially begun! This will be the first of a new series of newsletters in which we will keep you updated about the progress, achievements and other news that is relevant to any DUT Racing follower. FSA will be the thired and last competition in which the DUT13 will participate. It will therefore conclude a long and intensive year of engineering. The schedule for this competition is a bit tighter than for the previous competitions. Today, all teams have been registered, the pits are set up and the scrutineering has begun. Tomorrow, the static events will already take place. On Wednesday and Thursday, all the dynamic events are being held to end with the award ceremony on Thursday evening. On the following pages you will get an impression of the day. Enjoy!
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26-08-2013 The low weight of the car has clearly some additional advantages when loading the car in the trailer
10.00 - Arrival After setting up all the tents on the campsite with (mostly) weary eyes, the paddock and registration were opened for all teams.
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Delft Bulletin - Formula Student Austria 14.30 - Pits In the early afternoon we could find a nice place in the pits where we were delighted to have our colleagues from Z端rich as our neighbours.
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26-08-2013 At 20.00, representatives from all the teams were gathered to exchange thoughts and give feedback about the event together with the event control.
20.00 - Scrutineering closed After several hours queueing for scrutineering, we finally got in. Half an hour before the scrutineering was closed we could start. Until so far, it’s going smoothly, but most of it is still to be done tomorrow. We will queue up early to be on time for the static events. Stay tuned!
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Delft Bulletin - Formula Student Austria
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