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We are proud to have established a meaningful new partnership with Adam Opel AG. As part of the cooperation GFR received a custom-manufactured team car with special coating, which perfectly suits the team both optically and technically. By the beginning of March we had received our new team car,[…]

Once again four international shipments are planned between Germany and the US for this year. The first of these shipments contains essential parts and components for our combustion car, which were manufactured by students at the Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg in Friedrichshafen as well as by our industry sponsors. Uprights,[…]

On the 28th to 29th of January, our team was invited to attend the Boxenstopp@Daimler event in Vaihingen, Stuttgart. Every year, Daimler hosts this event for their annual Daimler sponsorship winners in order to meet the other teams and provide interesting training lessons. The program gave us the chance[…]

As we reach the end of 2015 we find ourselves looking back at an exciting time; for all of GFR the 2015 season was a huge success. Both our combustion car and our electric car were able to achieve wonderful results at competitions in Michigan, Hockenheim and Spielberg. These[…]

At the end of November the team celebrated its second victory of the season after securing sponsorship from Daimler. The Global Formula Racing team had the opportunity to participate as one of five finalists for the Integration Excellence Award at the headquarters of the EDAG group in Fulda. This[…]

Taking advantage of Oregon’s gorgeous fall weather, the American side of the team at Oregon State University took both the 2014 and 2015 combustion cars for a weekend full of driving and collaboration with the new members in the Dalles, Oregon. With both cars running back to back, many[…]

After an outstanding 2014 race season, Global Formula Racing (GFR) was pleased to continue its partnership with Sabalcore Computing Inc., a leading high performance computing (HPC) service company, for the 2015 season. Thanks to Sabalcore’s HPC Cloud, GFR can simulate external airflow quicker and with greater accuracy. Global Formula Racing, founded[…]

From July 28 to August 3, Global Formula Racing successfully competed with both our electric and combustion cars in the highly competitive Formula Student Germany (FSG) event at the Hockenheimring. We want to inform you directly of the events during competition. Thanks for your interest and we hope you[…]

Only one week after a very successful Formula Student Germany, Formula Student Austria (FSA) began and ran from August 10th to the 13th at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg, Austria. While 110 teams participated at Formula Student Germany in Hockenheim, FSA was considerably smaller with only 40 teams[…]

This spring five students from DHBW have the chance to support the American side of the team at Oregon State University (OSU). These five students will all be spending an entire term at OSU. This is a great example of international teamwork for GFR which will strengthen the team[…]