Team Details

The Herkules Racing Team from Kassel, founded in May 2009, is entering its eighth season in the Formula Student combustion competition. The team consists of about 35 team member. The Key facts for this year are: high reliability paired with a high power-to-weight ratio, reduce the unsprung mass without loss of stiffness.

We proudly present the HRT17! It's the seventh car buildt by the Herkules Racing Team. Based on lap time simulations we developed a new racecar with the overall goal of a high reliability in addition to low unsprung mass, a high power-to-weight ratio and high stiffness. Thats why we realised among other improvements a dry sump system and build a chassis that consits of a monocoque and a steeltube rearframe for the first time in our team history. We are looking forward to the FSG!

Established in 2009 at the University of Kassel, the Herkules Racing Team comprises 50 students from different areas of studies. Up to today, we have designed six cars - the HRT 16 being the latest in our team's history. Aiming for continuous improvement, we revolutionised our last year's car with a new concept, which places a strong emphasis on simplicity, reliability and innovation. Special features include a removable third spring damper unit and wings with profiles made of wood among others.

Driven by the desire to continue our success story of the last four years, we, the Herkules Racing Team, are confidently looking forward to meet this aspiration. Regarding our principle "evolution instead of revolution", 62 students focused on enhancing and optimising the basics of the last year's car and team structures, in order to realize an ongoing improvement process. It is our ambition to make a good competition and pace. We are proud and gratefull to be part of the formula student world!

The Herkules Racing Team was founded in 2009. After the great succeeds we achieved with our last three cars we are looking forward to compete in 2014 with an even better developed car. To accomplish this goal we build on the experience we have gained the last years to improve our existing concepts. Besides our ambition to get under the top 10, it´s our intended aim to create and provide a basis which drives a continuously improvement of our team and car to open the door for ongoing success.

As we showed last year, Herkules Racing Team is definitely able to build a competitive car. We have further developed our car concept into the light weight direction. Clearly, we are using carbon reinforced plastic more often this year as well as aluminum instead of steel. We have also downsized many components in the car, and avoided welding wherever it is possible by using adhesives instead. In addition, we have improved our engine and powertrain: we gained 14 hp compared with our 1st car and saved about 3.5 kg rotated mass in the power train design. A feed forward traction control is another new development of ours, which hopefully brings some advantage. We are looking forward to this year's competition and we are confident we will be at our best.

The Herkules Racing Team was founded in 2009, and already from the very beginning we made it clear, that our aim is to build a simple and reliable car, characterised by some technological specialties. This year, we are glad to participate with our first car, SuzieQ. It is equipped with different sensors which are supposed to measure parameters like the temperature of the wheel bearings, the stress of the wheel hubs, the G-Forces acting on the driver etc. Important information is shown to the driver on the self-built steering wheel where the push buttons for the electronic gear shift system are attached to as well. In the unlikely case of significant electronic problems, the driver may also hit the Fail-Safe Button, which reduces the electronic system to its essential functions (e.g., gear shifting and ignition cut). This will ensure the drivability of SuzieQ. We would like to say thank you to all of our team’s supporters who made our participation possible.