Racing Journey: Formula Student

On this episode of the podcast, we dwell into the most important piece of document that sets the boundaries of the competition, the Rulebook. These are the competition's organizers guidelines for the teams that participate on what to design, build and compete. It also has all the details on the scoring system, sub events, penalties and administrative requirements for a particular edition of the Formula student event. This episode deals with a general skeleton of a standard FS rulebook, where I share my understanding on the some important rules to focus as a first time reader. 

On this episode of the podcast, we talk about the birth of Velocita Racing with one of the founder, Steven Brills.  Velocita Racing started in 2015 as a fun project by a group of enthusiastic 1st year students, which is now one of the top Formula Student teams in Bangalore, India. Steven talks us through how they wanted to be unique in college, their out of the box engineering solutions and their self learning experiences. He also gives us wise advice on team work, management and passing down the control while trusting the young.

The second episode of the podcast takes a look into the how the Indian Universities were introduced to Formula Student events.  I talk about the events that kickstarted the interest and the current events available. This episode shows how the popularity of such engineering design events has risen in the past decade and one event in specific is taking the Global spot of the best event we have. 

This episode of the podcast takes a look into the history of Formula Student events.  I talk about the origin story of such events, how it progressed into the event we now know it as and about the various events available all around the world today.  Also find out how Detroit's Big3 car brands, Ford, Chrysler and GM have a huge part to play in the events popularity.

Hey Racing fanatics!

Do you know there are various types of Motorsport? Did you know Non-racing is also a form of Motorsport? This episode gives a general idea of what motorsports are and what makes it interesting. This will also tell you why am I so addicted to racing. Find out more in the episode and stay tuned!