Introducing GFR ’23 and a recap of FSAE Michigan! This year we designed an entirely new GFR car, and through hundreds of work hours, we were able to complete it in time for FSAE Michigan! The team was able to get through all tech inspections quickly and efficiently, but unfortunately, on Day 3, we encountered […]

Closure of DHBW & OSU At both universities, teaching activities were temporarily suspended completely before the end of the semester. At the DHBW it was on the 12th of March, then OSU followed on 28th of March.This was accompanied by the complete closure of our premises a short time later, which we were allowed to […]

As a tradition, shortly after the start of the new season, we held one of our popular karting events. The aim of these events is to integrate new team members into the team and to strengthen the bonds within the team. There were many fun duels on the track, which reflected our ambition and passion […]

New Season: It is the start of a new season in which we welcome new members and look forward to exciting new developments in the season 2020.  Starting this season, we have concentrated our focus on e-mobility and autonomous driving to give more weight to these promising topics and as part of Formula Student to […]

On November 7, 2019, Mentor held the annual IESF Automotive Design Conference at the Mariott Hotel in Munich. During the conference, we were able to get an overview of the latest state of the art in electro-automobility. In this conference, special emphasis was placed on presentations regarding autonomous systems and how they will develop in […]

We can look back on a successful season 2019 in the competitions FSAE Michigan, FS Austria, FS Germany and FS Spain. All the competitions with the data gained and the valuable feedback helped us to improve our concepts and systems. In FS Germany, the most important competition for us, we took part with three cars, […]

As we welcome new members to our team this year, we have used the opportunity of our team hut to get to know each other better at this event, to make new friends and to strengthen existing ones. The aim of the event was to ensure team dynamics and to integrate the new members into […]

We have already completed two test phases in October to collect data on the current evolution of the engine system. As already mentioned, from the 2020 season we will focus more strongly on e-mobility and autonomous driving. The tests were conducted with our eCar GFR19e and dCar GFR19d.  We have been able to implement our […]

Just like in the previous years, it has been a special honor for the team to be invited to the ZF Race Camp again this time. Together with 28 other teams from nations worldwide, the two day event took place at the Fair Friedrichshafen close to the airport and was a great opportunity to establish […]

Our GFR19c began its season in May, competing at FSAE Michigan against 119 other teams. Beginning with static events, GFR19c placed 8th in Design, just shy of Design Finals, and an incredible first place in Business Presentation! For dynamics events, the combustion car had a very successful set of dynamic days. On day one, the […]

Although the driverless race car had already been put through its paces in numerous simulated test drives, there was still a need for many hardware modifications which need to be made prior to competition.  Among other things a steering motor with gearbox and a pneumatically actuated brake system were integrated into the vehicle. These modifications […]

Between April 3rd and 4th, the ZF Teambuilding Hut took place in Hinterzarten in the Black Forest. Accompanied by Frank Ross and Peter Oster, our team took part in the workshop focusing on motivation and communication in the “Rinkenklause” in order to strengthen the team spirit in the run-up to the new season. Due to […]

In the last weekend of October our team went to Austria again, more precisely to Hirschegg, to our Teambuilding Hut. We used this weekend to introduce new and old team members to each other and to work together on the topics in the project groups. In addition to the new students, some advisors also attended […]

Formula Student Spain – 2018 Tuesday Greetings from Spain! After our long bus journey from Friedrichshafen to Barcelona we finally reached our destination: the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. With about 55 team members we are one of the bigger teams.After the construction of the two pits the whole team sat together in the evening at the […]

Formula Student Germany- 2018 From the 6th to the 12th of August the Formula Student Germany took place at the Hockenheimring. Already on Friday, before the actual beginning, first members of our team travelled to Hockenheim to secure a good camping site. Followed on Sunday our first sprinter arrived with the food and together the […]

FSAE Italy – The First Event for our GFR18e It’s hard to describe the feeling when the events are drawing closer and you can finally show what you’ve worked so hard for over the last few months. On July 11th the time had finally come: the first event for our electric vehicle in Italy was […]

The annual ZF Race Camp took place from May 16th-18th. The Race Camp is a kind of dress rehearsal for the upcoming Fomula Student competitions this summer. Our team was represented with both the GFR17e and the new GFR18e. We were able to prove our worth in both static and dynamic disciplines in a competition […]

May 15th was a big day: The rollout of the GFR18e!  For weeks the team worked together towards this day, spending more than a few nights in the shop to be able to proudly present our new electric racer to our sponsors, supporters and friends. At the beginning of our rollout we invited our professors […]

In typical GFR tradition, the first event with our combustion car took place at the Speedway in Michigan. From May 9th – 12th the team had the opportunity to showcase the GFR18c in a competition. Overall, we performed well as a team, but due to technical problems we were unfortunately not able to take part […]

Kreatize supports us among other things with the production of our inverters. A big goal of this season is the weight optimization of these inverters. A housing made of CFRP is used to achieve the greatest possible weight saving. So that all plugs and other connections are securely fastened in the housing, inserts are fastened […]