Manufacturing Machinery World February 2020

NEWS NEWS NEWS
TWO NORELEM-SUPPORTED UNIVERSITIES TAKE
TOP 35 POSITIONS AT FORMULA STUDENT 2019
Southampton University and the University
of Birmingham both ranked in the top half
of the Formula Student 2019 competition,
with donated parts from standard
components specialists, norelem.
In the lead-up to the event, norelem
donated standard components to the
engineering teams at Southampton
University (Southampton University
Formula Student Team SUFST) and
University of Birmingham (UBRacing) to
help them build their cars.
Regarded as Europe’s most established
student engineering competition, Formula
Student comprises of multiple events that
take place all over the world. Since 2007, the
UK edition of Formula Student has taken
place at Silverstone.
This student motorsport event aims to
provide undergraduates with invaluable
engineering experience that will help them
begin their engineering career. Each year,
Formula Student sees more than 100
university engineering teams design and
build formula-style racing cars and travel
across the globe to test and race them.
As well as achieving a top 20 position,
Southampton University’s most successful
car to date, STAG VI, also placed in the top
10 for the following categories; Cost,
Design, Presentation and Skidpad.
CEO of norelem, Marcus Schneck, says,
“Competitions such as Formula Student are
crucial as they give students real-world
project experience that’s vital to kickstart
their career. norelem is proud to support the
engineers of the future and show them how
to use standard components in innovative
and unique applications.
“Whether these young engineers choose
to go into race engineering or another
industry, by using standard components,
they’ll understand how to lower cost and
how these components provide flexibility.”
Parts that norelem donated to SUFST
included a universal joint for the steering
system, and bolts for the suspension and
driver control system. SUFST also built a
table using components from norelem’s
mounting assembly system so that they
could transport and work on the car with
ease.
Meanwhile, even though UBRacing
suffered engine failures before the
competition began at Silverstone, the team
still managed to engineer a temporary
solution to enable their car to race.
UBRacing’s team driver managed 10 laps
and set a respectable lap time of 70 seconds.
This isn’t the first time norelem has
supported engineering students - the
business has a long history of supporting
various Formula Student teams by donating
parts and offering technical support for
their projects. In 2019, 68 teams from around
the world benefitted from norelem’s
support.
www.norelem.co.uk
24 Manufacturing Machinery World, February 2020