Formula Student (FS) is an international engineering design competition first held by the Society of Automotive Engineers in 1979. The goal is to develop and provide a platform for student engineers to experience, build, and learn.With more than 300 teams worldwide, it is the most established educational engineering competition in Europe. The name says it all, but each team consists only of students from universities. Of course, the teams work together with companies, professionals and academics. It offers a unique way to test students’ theoretical knowledge in a practical context.

Besides the engineering and racing part, the FS is also about students developing other skills such as designing, presenting and making a business case. The idea of the business case is that you try to make a car for the market of non-professional hobby racers.

The race has three classes, combustion, electric and driverless. We are now going to set up a new classification, the hydrogen classification. This year we will be the only one and we hope to pave the way for other teams to switch or start with hydrogen.