UH Racing

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Team	UH Racing
University	University of Hertfordshire
Established	1997
Country	UK
FSAE/FS Class 1 Competitions	13
FSAE/FS Class 1 Wins	0
FS Class 1/200 Wins	3
FS Class 2 Wins	0
FS Class 3 Wins	1
University Budget	£3000
Main Sponsor	Loctite
Tyre Manufacturer	Dunlop
Endurance Drivers	Mark Smith Ian Burgess
Team Leader	Ian Burgess
Supervisor	Dr Howard Ash
Website	www.uhracing.co.uk

UH Racing is the University of Hertfordshire's Formula SAE team, they are one of only a couple of UK universities to compete in the US Formula SAE competition. The main competition that they compete in is the Formula Student event. UH Racing has won the Best UK Award twice.

UH Racing is the one of two teams to enter every single formula student event in the UK, University of Birmingham being the only other team to achieve this, with many trophies won throughout the years. The University of Hertfordshire claim that every F1 team employs at least one former UH Racing team member. ^[1]

Contents 1 Team Facilities 2 Team Advisors 2.1 Dr Howard Ash 2.2 Jeff Peters 2.3 Trevor Smith 2.4 Professor Sergio Rinland 3 2008 3.1 UH11 3.2 UH12 3.3 UHH2[1] 3.4 UH10b 4 2007 4.1 UH10 4.2 UH11 4.3 UH09b 4.4 UH08h 5 2006 5.1 UH09 5.2 UH08b 6 2005 6.1 UH08 7 2004 7.1 Car 12 8 2003 8.1 Car 14 9 2002 9.1 Car 10 10 2001 10.1 Car 4 11 2000 11.1 Car 151 11.2 Car151a 12 1999 13 1998 14 Results and Awards 14.1 Formula Student UK Results 14.2 Formula Student Germany Results 14.3 FSAE USA Results 14.4 FSAE Australia Results 15 Sponsorship 16 See also 17 External links 18 References

[edit] Team Facilities

The UH Racing Team have a large amount of Engineering and Computing facilites to design, build and test race cars.

• Computer Cluster with 10 Dual Xeon 2.8Ghz and 8 Dual Core Xeon 2.0Ghz processors for running complex Computational Fluid Dynamics ( CFD) Simulations. ^[2]
• 4 Wind Tunnels
• Four Post Chassis Rig^[3]
• Eddy Current Engine Dynamometer
• 1500 bhp Rolling Road Dynamometer
• Portable Flat Floor System
• Climate Controlled Composite Lay-up room.
• 1m Diameter x 3m long cylindrical Autoclave up to 220^oC and 8 Bar pressure.
• Catia V5 v17
• Ricardo Wave 7.2
• TIG welding facilites with Aluminium Jig Table
• Plasma cutting

[edit] Team Advisors

[edit] Dr Howard Ash

Dr Howard Ash first started his involvement with FSAE/Formula Student in 1996^[4][5] at the University of Leeds during his undergraduate degree. After completing his PHD Dr Howard Ash moved to Oxford Brookes University to take charge of the Formula Student team in 2003.

In 2006 The University of Hertfordshire poached Dr Howard Ash from Oxford Brookes University, where he is currently in charge of the UH Racing Formula Student team with a special interest in the Vehicle dynamics of the cars.

[edit] Jeff Peters

Jeff Peters was in charge of UH Racing from 2005-2006 where a dramatic improvement in the teams performance was achieved with 2 top 10 finishes and the Best UK team award in 2005. Jeff Peters is currently the main advisor for all of the engine and electrical side of the team.

[edit] Trevor Smith

Trevor Smith has been involved with the building of the UH Racing cars since 2004, helping out with manufacturing problems and advising the team of the best process to use in manufacture of parts.

[edit] Professor Sergio Rinland

Professor Sergio Rinland has advised the UH Racing team since 2006.

[edit] 2008

[edit] UH11

Ian Burgess and his team have won every class they have previously entered, (Class 1-200 in 2006 and Class 3 in 2007), and now intend to win the class 1 Trophy. The team are preparing for the events at Silverstone in July and Hockenheim in August.

• Ian Burgess - Team Leader, Powertrain, Sponsorship, Driver, Cost and Business Preparation
• Matt Tomalin - Chassis, Driver and Business
• Chris Slevin - Packaging, Suspension, General Design and Cost
• Mark Smith - Brakes, General Design and Driver
• Bradley MaCartney - Aerodynamics
• Jostein Gundersen - Powertrain and Driver
• Jamie Muir - Powertrain and Social Secretary
• David Astle - Vehicle Dynamics Simulation
• Richard Jones - Driver Controls and Driver
• Robert Meredith - Steering, Tyres and Driver
• James Major - Crash Structure
• Pete Turner - Pedal Box

[edit] UH12

Mike Naylor and his team are designing UH Racing's 2009 challenger in their placement year. The team plan to follow on from the UH11 teams class 3 win in 2007.

[edit] UHH2[1]

A group of masters students are following on from the demonstration of UH08h and designing a car that will run a 250cc hydrogen fuelled Internal Combustion Engine. This will be enetering the new Class 1(A) event at theFormula Student in July 2008.

• Peter Treglohan - Team Leader, Chassis Design
• Justin Rule - Suspension Design and Kinematics
• Dan Ince - Engine Selection, Development, Conversion and Optimisation
• Alan Bunch - Fuel System and Installation
• Adam Wood - Electronics and Control Systems
• Tom Davies - Bodywork Design and Manufacture, Aerodynamics
• Michael Arkadiou - Drivetrain Design
• Robin Pickford - Intake, Exhaust and Supercharger Design
• Dean Lloyd - Website Design and Sponsorship Co-ordinator

[edit] UH10b

The UH10b team consisting of 1^st and 2^nd year students are developing the UH10 car to improve the already fast car. The Team hope to win the Class 1-200 event making it a Hat-trick of wins in class 1-200 for the University of Hertfordshire

[edit] 2007

UH Racing had 4 entres into the Formula Student for 2007.

[edit] UH10

Adam Kester and his team finished 8th at Formula Student UK, they carried out a complete change in the car this year opting for the Yamaha R6 engine as opposed to the Triumph Daytona. This has allowed them to take a considerable amount of weight from the car, weighing at 200KG.

• Adam Kester - Cummins
• Jonathan Wingfield - Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines
• Dan Ince - Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines
• Will Smith - Lola Racing Cars
• Pete Mitchell - Lola Racing Cars
• Tim Gibson - TRL Engineering
• AJ Cole-Buchanan - Lotus Cars
• Edward Heinzlemann - GEMS
• Richard Body - Bentley Motors

[edit] UH11

Ian Burgess and his team entered and won the class 3 event, also achieving the Learning Grid Design award. The team initiated a radical change in direction, reverting from rule of thumb design, to full simulation and analysis of the car before being put into manufacture. The UH Racing lapSim has been developed by James Waters which improves the understanding how the formula student cars performs dynamically.

[edit] UH09b

UH racing also retained the Class 1-200 title.

[edit] UH08h

John Goddard and James Waters developed UH08 to run on Hydrogen power, for the alternative fuel event at Formula Student UK. The only team that managed to get a running car in this event. The crowds were treated to a pioneering moment from UH Racing, as UH08h is the first and so far only FSAE car to be powered by hydrogen^[6].

[edit] 2006

[edit] UH09

Dan Jones and his team continued on with the good work of the UH08 car and achieved UH racing's highest ever finish in the UK event of 5th place.

UH09 used the same Triumph 600cc as the previous year and the same basic chassis design, but with improvements over the whole car a reduction of 20kg's was achieved. UH09 weighed 210Kg and was able to accelerate from 0-60 in 3.2 seconds.

• Dan Jones - Flybrid Systems (F1 KERS)^[7]
• Dave Denyer - Force India F1
• Paul Hooper - Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines
• James Skelton - Williams F1
• Andrew Evangelou - Prodrive

[edit] UH08b

Oliver Best and his team re-engineered the highly successful UH08 car from 2005. The team won the class 1-200 events with the best developed car award. This was achieved by considerable testing and development winning by 121 points. The Team also helped prepare the car for the FSAE event in Detroit in which the original UH08 team reformed to compete finishing as the top UK team again.

• Oliver Best - Williams F1

[edit] 2005

[edit] UH08

UH Racing reverted to a steel spaceframe chassis for UH08, a change from the composite chassis used for the last four years. The car was a back-to-basics, well designed, well tested light and simple race car. The UH08 team were awarded the Best UK award and finished 7th overall

• John Goddard - TML Engineering and Phd
• James Waters - Lotus Cars
• Dave Spires - Honda F1
• Adam Taylor - BTB Exhausts
• Anthony Sale - Millbrook Proving Ground

[edit] 2004

[edit] Car 12

Stuart Chamberlin - Pi Research & Race Car Engineering Writer (Data Bytes)

[edit] 2003

[edit] Car 14

[edit] 2002

[edit] Car 10

[edit] 2001

[edit] Car 4

[edit] 2000

[edit] Car 151

[edit] Car151a

[edit] 1999

Team members

Hashem Attrah, Josewick Au, Aleksandar Berberic, Nick Brown, Peter Crook, Kieran Forinton, Nir Frogel, Amir Gelberg, Frederic Glimard, Isaak Hazan, Patrick Hofer, Robert Jazbinsek, Steve Knight, Chris Mumford, Jatin Patel, Andy Philpotts, Nicholas Sabrazat, Arthur Shaw, Mike Trotman, James Venables, Richard Wakefield

[edit] 1998

[edit] Results and Awards

[edit] Formula Student UK Results

Year	Class 1	UK Rank	1-200	Class 3	Awards
2007	8th	2nd	1st	1st	Best Developed Car, Class 3 Overall Winner and Class 3 Design
2006	5th	2nd	1st	-	Best Developed Car
2005	7th	1st	7th	-	Best UK Team
2004	42nd	17th	5th	9th	Most Effective Use of CAE
2003	17th	7th	4th	-	Wiring Harness Runner Up
2002	14th	6th	1st	-	Best Developed Car
2001	11th	3th	-	-	Best Fuel Efficient Car, Best Wiring Harness
2000	4th&16th	1st		-	Best UK/European Team, Best Wiring Harness
1999	7th	2nd	-	-	-
1998	?	?	-	-	Best Presented Team

[edit] Formula Student Germany Results

Year	Overall	UK Rank	Awards
2008

[edit] FSAE USA Results

Year	Overall	UK Rank	Awards
2006	21st	1st

[edit] FSAE Australia Results

Year	Overall	UK Rank	Awards
2001	5th	2nd

[edit] Sponsorship

UH Racing's main sponsor since 2001 has been Loctite

[edit] See also

• Formula Student
• Formula SAE
• Formula Student Germany
• Formula Student Russia
• Formula SAE Australia
• Formula SAE Japan
• Formula SAE Brazil
• Formula SAE Italy
• Formula SAE West

[edit] External links

• UH Racing Website
• University of Hertfordshire
• UH Hydrogen Racing
• Formula Student
• Formula Student Germany
• Formula SAE
• FSAE.com Forum

[edit] References