FULL NOISE
March 2016
University of Wollongong’s Formula SAE Team Newsletter
Welcome to the 2016 Campaign!
Welcome back fans and sponsors to another exciting campaign year for the UOW FSAE team. The team had a brilliant 2015 that featured excellent success and publicity, with the 2015 campaign car, ‘Lucy’, breaking into the top
10 as the team secured 8th position at the Australasian competition. The success of ‘Lucy’ could not have been
possible without all the support from our outstanding sponsors and fans. With the team under the guidance of an
all new executive team for 2016, we aim to build off the success of the 2015 campaign in terms of design and operation. The construction of the new 2016 car is taking shape in exciting stages and our highly enthusiastic team
have been working tirelessly on finalising component design and manufacture procedures. Over the last three
months there has been lots of brilliant publicity for ‘UOW-FSAE’, as the team has been keeping busy with various
open days and external events, as well as the internal logistics and construction phases of the 2016 campaign.
Principal
David Patrech
Business Director
Technical Director
Race Director
Anthony Dawson
Todd Dempsey
Matthew Garlan
Human Resources
Media
Recruitment
Sponsorship
Aerodynamics & Bodywork
Chassis & Ergonomics
Drivetrain
Electrical
Engine
Suspension & Steering
Unsprung
Data Analysis
Driver Training
Race Engineer
Design for 2016
Campaign
This year, the design
of the competition car
focuses on refining and
improving many to all
aspects of the established platform to date.
Many minor but crucial
design improvements
mean an evolution in an
already tried and proven
successful overall package to
make way for a complete
redesign of the entire car for
next year’s campaign.
Technical update –
An update from our Technical
Director: Todd Dempsey
“As the 2016 racer's design was
completed throughout February,
the team has already begun manufacturing the chassis. The CNC
notched tubing had arrived in early
February and the Jigs were cut shortly thereafter. The chassis is now 90%
welded and we are right on schedule
for the build.
Material orders have been completed,
and are ready for purchasing. In the
mean-time, UOW-FSAE's Technical Division are focusing on developing the required part drawings for external and internal manufacture, and maintaining the
2015 racer "Lucy" between track days and
test sessions.”
Sponsor Spotlight
VR3 Engineering offer state of the art
fabrication and tube bending services.
They also assist with 3D modelling, producing and extracting data, and generating CNC tool paths. They supply, manufacture, and test, tube components
and tube kits.
VR3 have strongly supported the FSAE
competition for many years. Their efficiency and professionalism have made
As well as the progress in construction of the
2016 car, the team has been hard at work
resurrecting the racing simulator and now
have it in great working condition. This simulator is a vital asset with our driver training
and promotional purposes and is a hit with
the team members and public alike.
them a household name amongst the
FSAE teams around Australia and the
world.
VR3 have supported UOW FSAE for four
years now. Their support has been invaluable and has saved us countless manufacturing hours.
Check out their website: http://vr3.ca/
Promotional Events
Australia Day
Newcastle University (NU) Racing Site Visit
The 2016 campaign is already off to a brilliant start as UOW FSAE
was very excited to showcase the 2015 campaign car ‘Lucy’ at the
‘Oz Day in the Gong’ festival on Australia day. The day featured a
stall set up to showcase the car and the achievements of the team.
There was a large amount of interest and publicity as we showcased
‘Lucy’ through both static display and exciting demonstrations of
the car in action. Driver Todd Dempsey put ‘Lucy’ through her paces
with some thrilling hot laps around Wollongong harbour. This drew
a huge audience with a lot of keen fans, many of which had their
picture taken in the car prior to the drive demonstration. We would
like to thank the City of Wollongong Council for inviting us. Australia
day was very successful for the UOW FSAE team and we are looking
forward to returning next year.
To kick off February the UOW-FSAE team took a trip up to Newcastle to Visit the NU racing facility at the University of Newcastle. It
was a fantastic day and the team was eager to take a look around
the workshop of the NU racing site. We would like to thank NU
racing for inviting us and showing us around their workshop areas.
Networking opportunities such as these are highly beneficial for
both teams as they provide wider insight into competitions challenges and how to overcome them. It was a very educational day
for all involved and the team is sure that the members of the Newcastle team that visited our facilities in the S.M.A.R.T. building at
UOW also enjoyed their trip down to our workshop in the few days
afterwards as well.
Enrolment Day
Enrolment day this year was a great opportunity for new students
to introduce themselves and get involved. The BBQ was running hot
and ‘Lucy’ was on display also. A lot of interest was shown from new
students who were keen to see what the UOW FSAE organisation is
all about and we had the pleasure of meeting many new students
and potential members.
EOMM Meet
Following on from Enrolment Day the team towed the car to Sydney
to attend the famous monthly car meet ‘EOMM’ held at Sydney
Drag-way. This public event was packed with many car enthusiasts
who took great interest in the UOW FSAE team and the 2015 campaign car. It was great to be alongside Sydney University Racing
Team, NU Racing, UTS Motorsports, and UNSW Redback Racing at
Facebook Competition
this event as it was a great promotion not only for our team but for
the FSAE competition as a whole. The team put on a show for the
There has been a lot of exciting events already for this
keen car enthusiasts, with a thrilling ‘rev battle’, that took place
year’s campaign, which sparked a huge amount of pubbetween ‘Lucy’ and UNSW Redback Racing team car.
licity and interest in the UOW FSAE team. In order to
celebrate reaching the 1500 like milestone on the UOW
FSAE Facebook page, one lucky fan was given the
chance to win one of our casual team shirts from the
2015 campaign. The competition fuelled a lot of interest and one lucky fan has won one of the 2015
campaign casual team shirts. Congratulations to the
winner!
Promotional Events cont.
O-Week
swing by our stall as part of their #omazingrace challenge. We even
enticed them to lay down some lap times in the race simulator and
they were very impressed with the team as a whole.
University of Wollongong’s O-Week was a huge week for UOW
A big thanks to everyone who was involved, we were glad to see so
FSAE, the team had the pleasure of putting on various exciting
events for students to experience, including driving the race simula- many fresh faces have such a huge interest in the team.
tor and free BBQ’s. It was great to see so many new and existing
Clubs Day
students throughout the week, as well as the team being able to
display the 2015 campaign car ‘Lucy’ and what benefits being a
member of UOW FSAE can offer.
UOW Clubs Day was another very successful day for the FSAE team,
The week was kicked off on Tuesday, as the team was set up at the with many keen students signing up to be involved in the team and
duck pond lawn cooking up a free sausage sizzle and entertaining
a lot of general interest of what the FSAE team is all about. The stall
students with our impressive race simulator. The first day was seen was again set up at the duck pond as the team prepared another
to be very successful, with lots of interest from new and existing
free BBQ for students. To celebrate Clubs Day the team ran a comstudents.
petition in the race simulator, where the top three fastest lap times
Following on from Tuesdays successful first day, the team was set
of the day would win one of three awesome prizes. 1st place being a
up again, displaying both the car and our exciting race simulator
$70 go-karting voucher, 2nd being a $20 Uni-shop voucher and third
that was grabbing a lot of people’s attention, as many lined up for a fastest time winning a $10 boost juice voucher. This sparked a lot of
few hot laps in the simulator. The team also had the pleasure of
interest with some students coming back multiple times to try and
putting on a show for the crowd in a thrilling ‘rev battle’ between
go even faster. One of the fastest times was only a few seconds off
the UOW-FSAE 2015 campaign car and Wollongong University Car
the pace of our experienced drivers, much to the shock and delight
Club’s 1969 911 Porsche race car.
of the student who picked up the top prize. Congratulations to all
Thursday was the final exciting day. The team was cooking up anthree winners, Clubs Day was a blast and we look forward to the
other tasty BBQ, as the simulator was running and ‘Lucy’ was on
many more events to come this year.
display again. We were excited to have Matt and Alex from ‘Triple J’
Written by Josh Makhoul
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Principal
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Business Director
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“When anyone refers to a “Wollongong car" we all know what they mean. They are not afraid to change
in order to be competitive, whether it be the ferocious turbo era vehicles to the grippy winged monsters
of today. This is a real credit to their team always hungry to innovate in this competition.”
– Geoff Pearson, Formula-SAE Australasia 2014, Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne VIC, Australia