FULL NOISE. Welcome to the 2016 Campaign!

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1 FULL NOISE University of Wollongong s Formula SAE Team Newsletter March 2016 Welcome to the 2016 Campaign! Welcome back fans and sponsors to another exciting campaign year for the UOW FSAE team. The team had a brilliant 2015 that featured excellent success and publicity, with the 2015 campaign car, Lucy, breaking into the top 10 as the team secured 8 th position at the Australasian competition. The success of Lucy could not have been possible without all the support from our outstanding sponsors and fans. With the team under the guidance of an all new executive team for 2016, we aim to build off the success of the 2015 campaign in terms of design and operation. The construction of the new 2016 car is taking shape in exciting stages and our highly enthusiastic team have been working tirelessly on finalising component design and manufacture procedures. Over the last three months there has been lots of brilliant publicity for UOW-FSAE, as the team has been keeping busy with various open days and external events, as well as the internal logistics and construction phases of the 2016 campaign. Business Director Anthony Dawson Human Resources Media Recruitment Sponsorship Principal David Patrech Technical Director Todd Dempsey Aerodynamics & Bodywork Chassis & Ergonomics Drivetrain Electrical Engine Suspension & Steering Unsprung Race Director Matthew Garlan Data Analysis Driver Training Race Engineer

2 Design for 2016 Campaign Sponsor Spotlight This year, the design of the competition car focuses on refining and improving many to all aspects of the established platform to date. Many minor but crucial design improvements mean an evolution in an already tried and proven successful overall package to make way for a complete redesign of the entire car for next year s campaign. Technical update An update from our Technical Director: Todd Dempsey As the 2016 racer's design was completed throughout February, the team has already begun manufacturing the chassis. The CNC notched tubing had arrived in early February and the Jigs were cut shortly thereafter. The chassis is now 90% welded and we are right on schedule for the build. Material orders have been completed, and are ready for purchasing. In the mean-time, UOW-FSAE's Technical Division are focusing on developing the required part drawings for external and internal manufacture, and maintaining the 2015 racer "Lucy" between track days and test sessions. As well as the progress in construction of the 2016 car, the team has been hard at work resurrecting the racing simulator and now have it in great working condition. This simulator is a vital asset with our driver training and promotional purposes and is a hit with the team members and public alike. VR3 Engineering offer state of the art fabrication and tube bending services. They also assist with 3D modelling, producing and extracting data, and generating CNC tool paths. They supply, manufacture, and test, tube components and tube kits. VR3 have strongly supported the FSAE competition for many years. Their efficiency and professionalism have made them a household name amongst the FSAE teams around Australia and the world. VR3 have supported UOW FSAE for four years now. Their support has been invaluable and has saved us countless manufacturing hours. Check out their website:

3 Promotional Events Australia Day Newcastle University (NU) Racing Site Visit The 2016 campaign is already off to a brilliant start as UOW FSAE was very excited to showcase the 2015 campaign car Lucy at the Oz Day in the Gong festival on Australia day. The day featured a stall set up to showcase the car and the achievements of the team. There was a large amount of interest and publicity as we showcased Lucy through both static display and exciting demonstrations of the car in action. Driver Todd Dempsey put Lucy through her paces with some thrilling hot laps around Wollongong harbour. This drew a huge audience with a lot of keen fans, many of which had their picture taken in the car prior to the drive demonstration. We would like to thank the City of Wollongong Council for inviting us. Australia day was very successful for the UOW FSAE team and we are looking forward to returning next year. To kick off February the UOW-FSAE team took a trip up to Newcastle to Visit the NU racing facility at the University of Newcastle. It was a fantastic day and the team was eager to take a look around the workshop of the NU racing site. We would like to thank NU racing for inviting us and showing us around their workshop areas. Networking opportunities such as these are highly beneficial for both teams as they provide wider insight into competitions challenges and how to overcome them. It was a very educational day for all involved and the team is sure that the members of the Newcastle team that visited our facilities in the S.M.A.R.T. building at UOW also enjoyed their trip down to our workshop in the few days afterwards as well. Enrolment Day Enrolment day this year was a great opportunity for new students to introduce themselves and get involved. The BBQ was running hot and Lucy was on display also. A lot of interest was shown from new students who were keen to see what the UOW FSAE organisation is all about and we had the pleasure of meeting many new students and potential members. EOMM Meet Following on from Enrolment Day the team towed the car to Sydney to attend the famous monthly car meet EOMM held at Sydney Drag-way. This public event was packed with many car enthusiasts who took great interest in the UOW FSAE team and the 2015 campaign car. It was great to be alongside Sydney University Racing Team, NU Racing, UTS Motorsports, and UNSW Redback Racing at Facebook Competition this event as it was a great promotion not only for our team but for the FSAE competition as a whole. The team put on a show for the There has been a lot of exciting events already for this keen car enthusiasts, with a thrilling rev battle, that took place year s campaign, which sparked a huge amount of pubbetween Lucy and UNSW Redback Racing team car. licity and interest in the UOW FSAE team. In order to celebrate reaching the 1500 like milestone on the UOW FSAE Facebook page, one lucky fan was given the chance to win one of our casual team shirts from the 2015 campaign. The competition fuelled a lot of interest and one lucky fan has won one of the 2015 campaign casual team shirts. Congratulations to the winner!

4 Promotional Events cont. O-Week swing by our stall as part of their #omazingrace challenge. We even enticed them to lay down some lap times in the race simulator and they were very impressed with the team as a whole. University of Wollongong s O-Week was a huge week for UOW A big thanks to everyone who was involved, we were glad to see so FSAE, the team had the pleasure of putting on various exciting events for students to experience, including driving the race simula- many fresh faces have such a huge interest in the team. tor and free BBQ s. It was great to see so many new and existing Clubs Day students throughout the week, as well as the team being able to display the 2015 campaign car Lucy and what benefits being a member of UOW FSAE can offer. UOW Clubs Day was another very successful day for the FSAE team, The week was kicked off on Tuesday, as the team was set up at the with many keen students signing up to be involved in the team and duck pond lawn cooking up a free sausage sizzle and entertaining a lot of general interest of what the FSAE team is all about. The stall students with our impressive race simulator. The first day was seen was again set up at the duck pond as the team prepared another to be very successful, with lots of interest from new and existing free BBQ for students. To celebrate Clubs Day the team ran a comstudents. petition in the race simulator, where the top three fastest lap times Following on from Tuesdays successful first day, the team was set of the day would win one of three awesome prizes. 1st place being a up again, displaying both the car and our exciting race simulator $70 go-karting voucher, 2nd being a $20 Uni-shop voucher and third that was grabbing a lot of people s attention, as many lined up for a fastest time winning a $10 boost juice voucher. This sparked a lot of few hot laps in the simulator. The team also had the pleasure of interest with some students coming back multiple times to try and putting on a show for the crowd in a thrilling rev battle between go even faster. One of the fastest times was only a few seconds off the UOW-FSAE 2015 campaign car and Wollongong University Car the pace of our experienced drivers, much to the shock and delight Club s Porsche race car. of the student who picked up the top prize. Congratulations to all Thursday was the final exciting day. The team was cooking up anthree winners, Clubs Day was a blast and we look forward to the other tasty BBQ, as the simulator was running and Lucy was on many more events to come this year. display again. We were excited to have Matt and Alex from Triple J Written by Josh Makhoul

5 is proudly sponsored by... Contact Us David Patrech Principal Anthony Dawson Business Director When anyone refers to a Wollongong car" we all know what they mean. They are not afraid to change in order to be competitive, whether it be the ferocious turbo era vehicles to the grippy winged monsters of today. This is a real credit to their team always hungry to innovate in this competition. Geoff Pearson, Formula-SAE Australasia 2014, Calder Park Raceway, Melbourne VIC, Australia