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14/01/09 January Update

With 90% of the design work completed for the new QFX car, manufacturing work has now commenced on bonding the epoxy tooling board for the chassis plug manufacture. Sections of this tooling board are currently being machined to the chassis profile on a 5-axis CNC machine in the university workshop. Upon completion of machining, these sections will be bonded together to form the complete chassis plug, and subsequently manufacture of the mould will commence.

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04/11/09 QFR Team Karting @ EI Sports

1st Place - James Leckey

2nd Place - Chris Henry

3rd Place - Glenn Sloan

29/09/09 Eddie Irvine Visit

Queen's University has announced Eddie Irvine as Patron of its Queen's Formula Racing team. The new role will see the former Formula One star meet regularly with the team and join them during track testing of their cars.

Speaking of his new role, Eddie Irvine said: “Some of these students are going to end up in Formula One. Mark Gillen, one of the best people I've ever worked with during my time in Formula One was a Queen's graduate. So, it really is the people from here who will help Formula One to continue."

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19/08/09 National Instruments Visit

Representatives from National Instruments visited the QFR team on 19th August to present the team with their prize from the 2009 Formula Student Competition. Queen's Formula Racing were awarded the National Instruments prize for 'Best Use of Data Acquisition in the Development of the Car'. As well as a trophy, the prize package consisted of a CompactDAQ data acquisition system and four I/O modules specified by the team, as well as a Labview training package for two students. This equipment will be used extensively in the development of the 2010 car as part of third year projects on chassis stiffness, anti-roll bar optimisation and data acquisition.