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For this year our work is done. During the christmas holidays the team from GFR will relax a few days. We thank all our sponsors for their support this year and look forward to the next competitions in 2015. Merry christmas and a happy new year!

We made it! For the first time since July of 2012 GFR leads the world ranking list with our combustion car again this year. Over 500 teams and their results are taken into account for the Formula Student World Rankings. The goal of the ranking is to allow all teams to[…]

Tuesday morning the Team competed in both the acceleration and skidpad events at the same time. Both cars made use of the three hour time window and finished all runs. In the end, the results were great! Global Formula Racing’s cCar recorded the fastest skidpad time ever in a[…]

Four overall 1st places for combustion car and one overall 3rd place for electric car in season 2014. After four competitions at Michigan, Hockenheim, Spielberg and Barcelona GFR has achieved amazing results. All of us at GFR thank you for the support of our team. We cannot be as[…]

Every year, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, one of the largest sponsors of Global Formula Racing, invites to its’ ZF Race Camp at the exhibition center Friedrichshafen. ZF Race Camp is a two day Formula Student training camp where ZF-sponsored teams get the opportunity to prepare and get ready for the[…]

 On 5th June, time had come last:  Global Formula Racing e.V. presented its GFR 14 electric car for the current season to the sponsors, former team members, friends and all those interested. Before the actual highlight of the event, the unveiling of the eCar, Global Formula Racing gave the audience[…]

In the international team, there is a continuous exchange between the German and the American side. Some students from the Cooperative State University Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg (DHBW) have been to Oregon State University (OSU) during their practice phase. Many of the American team members spend a large part of the[…]

Now we are planning, engineering and testing for season 2014. Stay tuned!

The Formula Student Austria competition was quite intense, exciting, frustrating and gratifying. Knowing that this competition was the last of this season added a little bit more pressure on everyone to give it their all and give the best performance possible. Another factor was thrown into the mix, the[…]

This is it. It comes down to one final competition this season. Countless hours are put into creating not only two extraordinary automotive vehicles, but two actual race cars. This is our last chance to show the competition and the world that we know how to build and race[…]