14/10/2021
The UCLAN car in action during Formula Student 2021
UCLan Motorsport are the student team behind the entry to the IMechE Formula Student event
Formula Student Event
Formula Student is a competition run by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in partnership with companies including JLR, Mercedes AMG, National Instruments and Shell. Attracting teams from across the globe, Formula Student challenges university students to design, build and compete with a small single seater racing car. Formula Student will take place at Silverstone during
14/10/2021
The UCLAN car in action during Formula Student 2021
14/10/2021
23/09/2021
UCLAN's car nearly hits a cone on a particularly fast run of the Skidpad at Formula Student 2021 at Silverstone
06/08/2021
UCLan students engineer success at national motorsport event Engineering students from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) are celebrating after a car they rebuilt in a matter of weeks won an event at a national race.
06/08/2021
26/07/2021
🏆 🥇🥈🥈🐓 🍲
26/07/2021
2021 best driver
26/07/2021
Dynamic class winners 2021 🏆
25/07/2021
🏆 Overall dynamics class 2021 winner 🏆
Details below !
Not the usual year with covid restrictions which meant the use of the 2019 car together with reliability & weight saving upgrades enabled the team thoroughly test the car before the prestigious event at IMechE Formula Student held at Silverstone
This gave the team the best opertunity of a great result. The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan did not disappoint, scoring well on all dynamic events:
2nd in acceleration 🥈,
7th in skid pad,
10th in sprint race,
2nd in endurance 🥈
After the endurance there was a shoot out with UCLan Motorsport winning with a 57.8 lap time 🥇
Winning Overall in dynamic races 🏆 🥇
UCLAN first top ten Overall in the competition out of over 100 universities world wide.
This woudn’t have been possible without the great team work the team produced with the faculty advisors and UCLAN and the sponsors Loctite Henkel RAVENOL Proseat International Schroth Racing Drexler Automotive GmbH
This is just the start for UCLan Motorsport watch out next year !
06/03/2020
Final suspension wishbone testing before production starts!
Using Loctite EA9466 as our adhesive for the Carbon Fibre/Aluminium Hybrid Wishbones.
28/02/2020
2020 Formula Student, Silverstone is coming round fast. With all the team working hard to allow us to start testing early.
Our 2020 team gear is here! Thank you to our returning sponsors:
Loctite
Ravenol UK
Pro-Seat International
22/07/2019
Thanks to brunel court this was possible giving us the extra week needed to finish off the car !