Team Details

Cardiff Racing is a team of multi-disciplined engineering students including first year undergraduates up to final year masters and postgraduate students that returns to Silverstone and Germany this year with their latest concept, CR09, determined to give Cardiff University its best ever result. Due to the lack of dynamic testing time in previous years, the team was determined to ensure that CR09 was finished the earliest of all previous Cardiff Racing cars, and the car, designed by the final-year masters students, reflects this goal. Building upon the previous experiences and skills within the team, an evolutionary design philosophy was adopted; focusing upon simplifying designs to reduce manufacturing time while also removing previously unreliable complexities. The chassis once again uses a combination of an aluminium sandwich panel front monocoque while a rear steel spaceframe houses the Aprilia SXV 550 V-Twin engine, custom SLS intake plenum, exhaust and differential.

Cardiff Racing is a team of multi-disciplined Engineering students from first year undergraduates through to post graduates. This year's entry, CR07, has been designed mainly by fourth year design students, while the volunteers carry out manufacturing, marketing and dynamic testing.CR07 builds upon the experience gained by the team in previous years. The chassis is a complete monocoque, constructed from lightweight, high stiffness aluminium honeycomb composite panels. The sidepods house cooling and electrical systems allowing space at the rear for more efficient packaging and easier engine maintenance.Power is provided by an Aprilia SXV 550 V-Twin engine with optimised intake and exhaust systems. The engine uses a custom ignition and fuel map developed in-house using the Cardiff University engine dynamometer. Power is transmitted through a student designed aluminium spool.The suspension system is the lightest yet from Cardiff Racing, utilising Fox Van RC dampers.