The team of Togliatti State University Togliatti Racing Team (TRT)-participants in the international engineering and sports project Formula Student (FS)-became the best Russian team in the Formula Student East competition in Hungary. For Togliatti, these were the first European competitions, the level of which is incomparably higher than many others.
The Black Bullet TSU declared herself at international competitions Formula Student in Hungary
The team of Togliatti State University Togliatti Racing Team (TRT)-participants in the international engineering and sports project Formula Student (FS)-became the best Russian team in the Formula Student East competition in Hungary. For Togliatti, these were the first European competitions, the level of which is incomparably higher than many others. TRT took 13th place among 29 teams, while bypassing all Russian, Ukrainian and a number of European teams in the general ranking. According to experts, for the first European exit is a good start, but all further victories can only be associated with an increase in the budget of the team from Togliatti.
Togliatti Racing Team – the only team in the Volga region, behind which there are already 4 sportswear of own production – participated in the Formula Student East competitions in Hungary with its fourth Black Bullet car. Obtaining a “ticket” to such competitions is a serious step for any team not only because the level of European teams is the highest in the world (even American and Japanese engineers are inferior to them), but because the competition participants manage to get a lot of knowledge by the level of the machine and By the level of project protection in static disciplines.
The TSU team traveled with the support of five sponsors to one of the largest FS stages in Eastern Europe, and this is not only Togliatti companies. In particular, it is a company engaged in the production of unified units of units for domestic and foreign cars and having representative offices in Poland and Hungary,-a factory of Val-Rising transmission details; The engineering company SEGULA Technology Rush LLC (Segula Technologies Russia LLC), pre-GSM JSC, TLT-Prof LLC. The constant sponsor of the team is Ladaplast-T LLC.
According to the head of the TRT team, the head of the department Design and operation of cars TSU Alexander BobrovskyOn the eve of the Hungarian stage, the Val-Rising plant provided the “formulas” with a large tent and new uniform. The sports car is the same – the rapid “black bullet”, which the “formulars” of TSU have significantly finalized. The head of the TRT team said that they modernized everything that concerns the chassis, in particular the transmission, the rear and front pendants.
Going on a trip, the team hoped to become at least the fifteenth, and in the end took 13th place, bypassing in the overall standings all Russian, Ukrainian and a number of European teams.At the same time, they lost only to teams included in the first hundred world rating. So, the team Formula Student MSTU named after N.E. Bauman Bauman Racing Team took 14th place. Formula Electric Madi of the Moscow Road State Technical University (MADI) became the 15th. Formula Student RUDN FS Rudn in 20th place. The Formula Student Formula Dream Russia Mami was in 21st place. The team of St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University Peter the Great Polytech North Capital Motorsport took 29th place. “Among the European -level machines costs from 100 thousand euros and an annual budget of 1 million euros, with our budget, we managed to take 13th place among 29 teams of teams. Europeans travel to the stage of 40-50 people. Each team has 2-3 personal chefs, 4 servicemen. Equipment for half a million euros are taken out. 4-5 cars for transporting people. Live in authors. We lived in tents and, of course, there is no question of any cooks and equipment for half a million euros. At first we were contemptuously called “Old School” (old school. – Approx. Ed.), But, having learned about our budget, they began to call “Simple Clever” (by analogy with the motto of the Skoda brand, “Reasonable simplicity.” – approx. Ed. ) and respectfully burn hands, ”said Alexander Bobrovsky.
It is worth noting that through all the tests only two Russian teams reached the finish line: TSU and MADI. However, having eliminated the remarks received during this stage, the teams will hardly harden their positions and, most likely, TRT TRT TRT in the next international competitions in the Russian stage in Togliatti will no longer be so simple.
According to the representative of the Formula Student Russia Organizing Committee Vladislav Krutov, who passed the Hungarian stage of the Formula Student international competitions, called Formula Student East, became debut for all Russian teams. Departments to European stages teach commands to be more serious and disciplined, since difficulties with roads, customs, laws, and no one has canceled the difficulties with other organizational issues either. This year, 29 teams of the average European level of training gathered at the competitions (the intersection with a more prestigious stage held in Austria, where the strongest teams headed). 6 teams went from Russia to the stage: four from Moscow, one of Togliatti and St. Petersburg.
– As a result of hard work for four days, the TSU team was able to overtake the rest of the Russian teams and escape to 13th place in the overall standings, – Says Vladislav Krutov. – For the TSU team, this is a good start at foreign stages, which brought a lot of new experience and understanding the tasks. Now they have to prepare well for the Russian stage of the competition, speak on it and start working on a new machine, with which it will be possible to take part in various international stages of the competition.And this task will be very difficult for the team, will require a lot of work and several times increased budgets for the development and construction of the machine, since the level of strong European teams is very high, and so far no team from Russia has been able to compete with them on equal terms.
Recall that for the TRT, the third international stage of the competition, which is held in Russia, which for the first time for FS will be held in the Samara region, in Togliatti from September 8 to 11, 2016, will be home. Togliatti State University is a general partner of the future stage.