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FEB 2015
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The latest updates from behind the scenes at OBR
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COMPETITION ENTRY The boys & girls of Oxford Brookes Racing have been getting their hands dirty once again, with the first stages of converting our new challenger from a CAD model, to a finished car. January was a busy month for the team, with much hard work required in order to secure our places at the 2015 Formula Student Competitions. Some great work by the off-track team saw us gain a position in the pre-registration slot at the Formula Student Hungary competition, which we will be entering for the first time in 2015. We also took part in the Formula Student Germany rules quiz, and were able to squeeze onto the entry list with less than a minute to spare, guaranteeing our place on the grid in Hockenheim once again.
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Finally our attendance at Formula Student UK was confirmed, where we will be deviating from the team’s usual car number #92, in order to take up our 2014 competition result, with the team running the #6 after a great performance last year. Having shown off ISIS 14 at the Autosport International Show in the beginning of January, the team’s attention quickly returned to Wheatley as ISIS 15 began manufacture. The team has had a very good month with the addition of new partners to the program, competition entries achieved and fantastic progress in the university workshops helping parts & moulds speed through production line, all assisting in the successful delivery of OBR’s brand new racing car, ready for summer 2015.
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NEWS IN BRIEF
LINK ECU PARTNERSHIP This month Oxford Brookes Racing was very proud to announce that Link Engine Management Systems have begun an engineering partnership with the team. The partnership began with the donation of 2
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Vi-PEC i88’s which will form part of the many research projects that the powertrain team are currently working on. We look forward to working closely with Link in the coming weeks and months.
2015 LAUNCH NIGHT LAUNCH
The team are proud to announce that as part of the 150th anniversary of the university, the car will be launched on the evening of Friday May 29th 2015 at Gipsy Lane campus, Headington, Oxford.
There will be special guests on the evening and the team look forward to inviting many of our supporters, partners & Alumni to the event. Watch this space for further details and updates as the date draws closer.
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SUSPENSION The carbon wishbones that we designed & manufactured last year were very successful, and the aim for 2015 is to expand on this learning and make all of our suspension links out of the same material, and testing of this is already well underway The team are renowned as the fastest car on Avon tyres, however for the coming season we will be making a change, after
OBR.BROOKES.AC.UK the Avon A45 compound stopped production. This has involved a range of simulations and tyre data collection including reviewing different tyres at a test in October. All of the data has now been collaborated and we are hoping to announce the tyres we have chosen for use in 2015 in the next newsletter issue.
ENGINE & POWERTRAIN We have decided to continue with the 570cc KTM 530 EXC engine for 2015 and try and find even more power and reliability than we found last year, with some mapping work on both our own dyno and on a rolling road. We are hoping to bridge the gap to the 4-cylinder cars in the acceleration event, and make our mark once again in the Sprint & Endurance events.
We are continuing our work into changing the order of the gear track in the sequential gearbox so that we are able to insert an extra gear ratio, allowing us to get more torque off the starting line, and hopefully see another gain in dynamic performance. This month NGK donated all our spark plug for the season which has formed part of the work we have been carrying out on the dyno.
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AERODYNAMICS
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2014 was our first year with wings since the early 2000’s, and we still feel that in the current regulations aerodynamics can add significant performance to the car
possible. Due to this the mould manufacture will be faster and cheaper, and is currently on-track to be completed in the coming days.
In 2015 the envelope for wings is much smaller but we are still aiming for a 30% Increase in CL on last year, with CFD simulations pointing towards breaking that target by some distance.
Trelleborg have generously donated all of the material for their front wing manufacture, which is currently being machined.
In order to reduce complexity and manufacturing time, the design philosophy was to have as many common elements as
We would also like to thank Oxford Brookes Racing Alumni Martin Lloyd and current team member Samuel Unsworth for their donation towards the wing manufacture.
CHASSIS With only minor changes to the regulations in the chassis department, the design philosophy behind our carbon-aluminium monocoque in 2014 has not changed. The 2015 car will see the team aiming to produce another chassis under 30KG which was achieved for the first time last year. The team have slightly adapted some of the designs to try and save even more
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January saw the beginning of chassis manufacture with the help of the university’s partner Banbury & Bicester College (Formerly OCVC). They allowed us use of their Autoclave for the manufacture of the carbon fibre skins and because of this the chassis is currently well on its way.
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JANUARY GALLERY
Driver selection at Base Performance
Meeting famous faces at Autosport
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Spark plugs from NGK Power curves on the dyno
Wishbone testing in the Stress Lab
Chassis build in full swing
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