The Team

IC Racing is the Formula Student team for Imperial College London. Founded in 2000, the team has grown from its initial nine members to the 2007-2008 team, comprising of over 25 mechanical engineering students. With the support of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College, the team aims to design and build cars on a two-year rotation.

Each car has a four-year life cycle:

• Year One: Design and Class 2 competition entry
• Year Two: Class 1 competition entry
• Year Three: Class 1(200) competition entry
• Year Four: Dynamic analysis test bed

The team philosophy is to design compact, lightweight racers with as much power as possible, which focus on simple yet elegant designs. To achieve this, we make extensive use of our in-house composite facilities, dynamometer, test bed and dedicated pit garage.

Our Sponsors

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The University

Imperial College London is consistently ranked as one of the top three universities in the United Kingdom. Attracting students from all over the world, both teaching and research are continually awarded the highest ratings. Situated in South Kensington, at the heart of the country’s capital, Imperial produces graduates of the highest calibre in all fields of engineering, science and medicine. This is recognised around the world – The Times recently ranked Imperial as the fifth best University in the World.

The Department of Mechanical Engineering has been ranked among the best in the country by The Times University Guide for the last five years. The quality of departmental teaching plus the experience gained through Formula Student has resulted in exteam members now working for such companies as Mclaren, Cosworth, Triumph Motorcycles and Jordan Formula 1.

The Competition

Formula Student is an annual competition run by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers together with the Society of Automotive Engineers and the Institute of Electrical Engineers. Teams of students from around the world are challenged to design and build a singleseater, open-wheel racing car adhering to a strict formula. Cars are put through their paces at the Formula Student Event each July. Cars are subjected to a range of both dynamic and static events. The dynamic events are designed to evaluate the on-track performance of the car, while the static events determine the quality of design and manufacture, the overall expense, and how the car could be marketed as a “weekend racer”.

Cars are split into four distinctive classes.

• Class 1, for totally new, running cars.
• Class 1 (200), for running cars that are a modified version of a previous car.
• Class 2, for semi-completed, non-running cars.
• Class 3, for cars at the design stage only.

Competing in Formula Student provides students with a unique learning opportunity, and allows team members to apply the engineering principles, learned during the course of a degree, to a real-world situation. Experience gained and lessons learned are invaluable. While producing a Formula Student car is extremely hard work, it is also hugely enjoyable and enormously rewarding. With both car and team exposed to thousands of soon-to-be graduates during the season and, at the final event, to many industry representatives, IC Racing presents a perfect sponsorship opportunity.