Dubai students develop F1-style racing car, clinch third spot in international competition

Dubai students develop F1-style racing car, clinch third spot in international competition

‘Team Al Fursan’ from BPDC participated in Formula Student Netherlands 2022 competition

‘Team Al Fursan’. Photo: Supplied

Published: Mon 18 Jul 2022, 6:29 PM

Nine months of hard work has finally paid off for ‘Team Al Fursan’, a group of university students from Dubai who participated in the Formula Student Netherlands (FSN) 2022 competition and bagged the third prize.

FSN is the Dutch edition of the world’s largest student engineering competition, which challenges students to understand, design, and develop a formula-style racing car.

Speaking to Khaleej Times, the 14-member team from BITS Pilani Dubai Campus (BPDC) explained the challenges that lay ahead as they conceived the idea.

“Challenges were manifold. One of them was that no initial documentation to guide us around was available. We had to spend a lot of time learning about things. For the first time, we were building this car as a team in the UAE, and we couldn’t find many suppliers of components and parts in the GCC market. For example, to get the tyres, we had to check around in different countries, and yet we didn’t get what we wanted for our car,” explained Adhav Kumaravel a 4th-year Mechanical engineering student.

‘Team Al Fursan’ with the trophy. Photo: Supplied

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