Team Details

Having built our 10th combustion car in our team history, we can proudly present our jubilee team this year. This year we reached for higher goals, trying to improve our results from the last years and to create a special anniversary gift to ourselves. Usually studying at the University of Aachen in western Germany, a part of our frame group spent half a year designing and building our frame in Salzburg (Austria) at one of our sponsors. The largest part of the team worked in our home city Aachen, coordinating the events and building all other technical parts of the eac10, the ecurie aix car no. 10. Regarding the highly improved results on the test block, the accurately planned suspension and smart constructed frame, we hope to be able to put our hard work into success. Lots of work, lots of fun and not least grown friendships now culminate in a great event at Hockenheim that we are looking forward to.

Ecurie Aix - innovation and passion. A hybrid team, building a combustion and an electrical car, with over 70 exceptional and passionate students, Ecurie Aix is truly unique. As one of the first European teams to compete in Formula Student, Ecurie Aix has adopted a worldwide exclusive CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission), is the only team that has conducted crash tests on their monocoques and additionally uses a unique multi-link-front axis with a mono-shock-absorber. This year the eac08 will premiere at the FSG event with a full monocoque and a distinctively designed air intake and exhaust system. Our new engine will be combined with our own electro-hydraulic shift system.We would like to thank all our new and long-standing Partners for their support, enabling our entire team to participate once again with our eighth combustion cars.

Ecurie Aix – innovation and passionEcurie Aix was founded in 1999 as one of the first European teams in the Formula Student. Since then it has adopted a worldwide unique CVT (Continuously Variable Transmission) in three of its racing cars (eac02, eac03 and eac04) and has been the only team to conduct several crash tests of their monocoques each year. In 2010, the team will compete both with a conventionally powered car (the eac07) propelled by a modified GSX-R 600 engine running on E85 ethanol, and with an electrically powered car (the eace1). Apart from the tractive system, the two cars share the same innovative components: the frame, which is a hybrid construction consisting of a carbon fiber monocoque in the front and a tubular steel frame in the rear as well as a unique multi-link-front axle with a mono-shock-absorber. Last but not least, both cars feature a typical Ecurie Aix-ingredient: passion.

Ecurie Aix – Innovation and PassionThe team Ecurie Aix was founded as one of the first European teams in the Formula Student. Since the founding of the team in 1999, each year about 35 members pursue the goal to build a formula student racecar. In this spirit, the Formula Student Team of RWTH Aachen is the first team which voluntarily ran crash tests during vehicle development and in three cars (EAC02-EAC04) adopted a CVT (Continously Variable Transmission), which was worldwide unique in the Formula Student . EAC06This year, the students of the RWTH Aachen designed and constructed their sixth race car. Like in last year a Suzuki GSX-R 600 engine, running on E85, provides the required performance. Shift paddles behind the steering wheel actuate the hydraulic-valves for clutch and shifter. Furthermore, Ecurie Aix uses a hybrid construction of a carbon fiber monocoque and a tubular steel rearframe. At the multi-link-front axle, the EAC06 features mono-shock-absorbers.

This year, the students of the RWTH Aachen designed and constructed their fifth race car. Due to an engine change, the team Ecurie Aix had to abandon the innovative CVT for the EAC05. Now a motorcycle engine from Suzuki provides the required performance, which is transmitted by a conventional motorcycle gear. As a result, there are also rocker switches behind the steering wheel because now, the drivers have to shift manually. The 600-ccm-engine runs on E85. Furthermore, Ecurie Aix uses a hybrid construction of a carbon fiber monocoque and a tubular steel rearframe. The monocoque is made of CFK-sandwich-compound and the rear frame consists of high-alloy steel profiles. In the case of a lateral collison, the structure of the Monocoque provides a sufficient safety, which is crash-test-provedAt the multi-link-front axle, the EAC05 features mono-shock-absorbers. This concept was tested in last year's model EAC04 and was further developed for the EAC05.