Dubai students’ formula-style racing car vrooms to the Netherlands for contest

Dubai students’ formula-style racing car vrooms to the Netherlands for contest

‘Team Al Fursan’ will compete against 18 teams in an international competition

Published: Tue 12 Jul 2022, 12:53 PM

A Dubai team has developed a formula-style racing car and has entered the Formula Student Netherlands (FSN) 2022 competition.

BITS Pilani Dubai Campus (BPDC), which has entered the contest as ‘Team Al Fursan’, is the only team selected from the Middle East and North Africa region. They will compete against 18 teams from around the world.

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.

The BITS students' car has been designed specifically bearing in mind the health, comfort and safety aspects of a driver, drawing upon biology, psychology, engineering and design, that create vehicle environments in which drivers have a lower chance of injury.

Al Fursan team head Shobal Philip Roy explained that the students built the car adhering to the rules and regulations of the Formula Student Rule book.

He said, “It took us nine months to plan, execute and complete the car; we started off with a blank paper and then worked throughout to build a race car that we engineered ourselves. It’s great being part of such a passionate