Newsletter
Januar y 2017
Newsletter Januar y 2017 Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the UH Racing newsletter!
A message from UH Racing: The new year marks UH Racing’s 20th future has in store! We also plan on year of competing in Formula Student taking UH19, UH18 and UH16 out for competitions. It is a fantastic testing in the summer of 2017. opportunity to display the potential of this years team, and live up to the reputation of ‘UK’s most successful Formula Student Team of all time’. This years team sees the return of many students from last year, with experience being a key asset to this years performance. There are also many new faces this year, providing the team with a diverse set of skills and knowledge. UH19 (left), UH18 (middle), UH16 (right) We look forward to seeing what the
The team is making use of its previous car, UH19, utilising it to test future projects and developments. Vehicle reliability is a prominent issue for many formula student teams, and we take pride in the reliability of previous cars, and how they can continuously benefit future UH Racing generations. An important factor to this years success will be the use of last years car (UH19), to test key developments for this year.
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December test day with UH19
Newsletter Januar y 2017
Team Progress The team has made excellent progress with manufacture, exceeding the progress made at this point last year. The chassis assembly is well underway (below), and is expected to be completed early in the new year. There
are also a number of major powertrain developments in the pipeline. With a busy testing scheduled for early 2017, the powertrain department are excited to display the result of these developments.
UH20 chassis progress
NEW performance high compression pistons
Partnership Update This year we see the continuation of many of our long term partners, such as Loctite, SKF, NGK Spark Plugs, Pcubed and RS Components, to mention a few. In recent weeks the team have had the pleasure of visits from Loctite, SKF, norelem, and RS
Components. Along with this, we are excited to welcome new partners with UH Racing, such as norelem, and Jaquet. norelem have already visited the university in December to present a lecture on fasteners.
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Newsletter Januar y 2017 Below are a few photos of visits the team have been fortunate enough to have experienced over the past few months. We would like to thank Loctite, SKF, RS Components, and norelem for taking the time to come to the university and explain more about what they do; The team look forward to continuing to work with them into the new year!
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