I went to Hockenheim on the weekend, specifically the Hockenheimring for the first Formula Student Germany event where i was a design judge. It was an absolutly amazing experience, i learned so much and hopefully helped a few students out. Spent about 12 hours over the weekend in the design events just asking students about their designs and giving feedback. The venue was magnificent, we had the typical SAE track on the large flat area near the F1 pits and the F1 track was fairly close to this area so if there was a break in the action on the SAE track, u could watch the cars racing on the real track. There were a heap of porsches including a Carrera GT (OMFG it sounds so good), 3 lambos, several ferarris.... and a VW Golf. it was also fun watching ppl burn big money when they had the sudden realisation that they couldnt in fact drive like schumacher as in the photo below:





Thats helsinki polytechnic for those of u who are interested. they came second overall and won the design and acceleration events.

the winner was TU Graz from Austria with the car pictured below:




very sexy car






and here is the car from strathclyde taking a very interesting driving line. didnt work too well for them.







In summary, i had a great time and so did everyone else i think. Congrats to UQ for winning the dynamic events too. good to see the aussies doing well.
Til next time ppl