Team Details
FH Frankfurt am Main Racing Team
| University | Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main
DE Frankfurt a.M. UAS short 149 |
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| Location | Frankfurt a.M., Germany | |
| Short Link | tid.fsg.one/152 | |
Team Description
2009 – a year that contains a lot of new competitions and challanging events for our team.
Unfortunately we were not able to get a start number for competing at the FSG 2009. But non the less we still had ambition race in this season. Therefore we had more luck when we regitered for the Formula Student Italy. We are going to compete with the our “Ribbed 09” and we are looking foreward to this upcoming challanging event.
To underline our effort, we have also changed our team name into “Skyline motorsport”. If you want to check everything new out, then visit us at www.skyline-motorsport.de!
Event Profile
Past Events
2008
Info
In the year 2008 it is the first time that the "Fh Frankfurt Racing" Team participates the FSG. Founded in november 2007 and being a newcomer team we are looking forward to the upcoming event and are very proud to present you our vehicle, the "Ribbed 08". This car is the construction where technology meets Frankfurt´s traditions therefore concept is based on “das Gerippte” -a cider jar you can find in Frankfurt and its surrounding area. Our Team has got twentytwo members and all work hard in their leisure time to develop, construct and build a race car with this outstanding design. They are studing in diverse fields of engineering and economics to unite to one team to fulfill the given tasks. Acchieving all these goals we are an attractive partner for our university and our sponsors such as euro egnineering, DEKRA, Dunlop and Conrad Electronics. We are hoping for the best rookie award, a good time with all teams and a bright formula student future.
Car Specifications
General
| Frame Construction | Tubular steel spaceframe |
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| Material | 25CrMo4 for the frame, fibre composit for casings |
| Overall Length (mm) | 2720 |
| Overall Width (mm) | 1390 |
| Overall Height (mm) | 1390 |
| Wheelbase (mm) | 1540 |
| Track Front (mm) | 1540 |
| Track Rear (mm) | 1440 |
| Weight Front (kg) | 109 |
| Weight Rear (kg) | 181 |
| Suspension | double wishbone axle in fornt and rear, push rods actuated to horizontally ordiented spring and damper, adjustable compression and rebound range of the dampers |
| Tyres | R 13 Dunlop formula student prototype |
| Wheels | 7x13 ET 20 ATS Classic Rim |
| Drive Type | chain |
| Differential | GKN Visco loc limited slip |
| Cooling | twin side mounted radioators with electric fans in front of rear axle |
| Brake System | 3-Disk brake system with two discs on the front axle and one mounted to rear axle, discs: wave design, adjustable brake balance |
| Electronics | electromechanic shifting system, multifuctional sterring wheel |
Powertrain
| Engine | modified Yamaha YZF-R6 |
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| Bore (mm) | 65.5 |
| Stroke (mm) | 44.5 |
| Cylinders | 4 |
| Displacement (ccm) | 599 |
| Compression Ratio | 13.1:1 |
| Fuel System | open source Megasquirt injection system |
| Fuel | 98octane petrol |
| Max Power (kW) | 11000 |
| Max Torque (Nm) | 8000 |
