Welcome to Queen's Formula Racing 2009

Welcome to the Queen's Formula Racing 2009 Website. Here you will find all the latest news and information relating to the team.

Queen's Formula Racing is a strong and vibrant group of 3rd and 4th year students operating within the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen's University Belfast.

Their aim is to design, manufacture and build a single seater formula style racing car within the academic year. With this car they then will compete in the Annual Formula Student competition which will be held at Silverstone in July 2009

The team has a strong reputation for producing top quality racing cars, with past successes ranging from 'Rookie Design Award' to 2nd overall European team and Top UK team.

The ambition for the new 2009 team is to build upon past successes and ultimately regain a top position at the Formula Student Competition in Silverstone.

Latest News

18/06/09 Final Assembly

Having received the carbon fibre chassis back from the autoclave at Bombardier, the floor and rear chassis can now be bonded in. Following this, the final push will then begin to attach all the major sub assemblies and the finishing touches applied to the car.

29/03/09 Chassis Update

Having verified our design with the competition judges, we have started the manufacture of the chassis. We have completed the plug and are currently laying up the fibre-glass mould. We hope to have completed this before the Easter break, after which we will start laying up the carbon-fibre.

03/03/09 Kirkistown Testing

The team has completed a detailed test of the handling of the 08 car. The 3rd year project to aquire this data will prove vital in the setup and running of both cars in this years competition.

23/12/08 Design Review

QFR09 have successfully passed its 90% Design Review. At this stage 90% of this years car has been modelled using CAD and drawings have been submitted to the workshop for manufacture. The team is now working hard to meet the manufacturing review deadline.

 
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A selection of QFR picures are available on Flickr
A selection of QFR videos are available on You Tube

Contact Us

Queen's University Belfast
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ashby Building
Stranmillis Road
BELFAST
BT9 5AH

Map link to Ashby Building location

Telephone: (028) 9097 5589
Fax: (028) 9066 1729

Email: martin@queens-racing.com

Partners


Bombardier

Perkins

FGWilson

Translink

Doran

TRED

Insoleq

4stHEAD

Sunoco

Wrightbus

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