Quiz Preparation

1. How many points are assigned for the Overall Vehicle Concept in the Engineering Design Event? (Multiple choice)

2. What is DNF short for?

3. What must the Technical Vehicle System Documentation include?

4.

In the event of unsportsmanlike conduct, 25 penalty points will be deducted from the team’s overall score. A second violation will result in an additional 100 penalty points deducted from the team’s overall score.

5. Which of the following requirements is a must for all types of vehicles, when moving the vehicle on the competition site?

6. What is the minimum tread depth of the rain tires?

7. Which of the following certifications for helmets is not allowed?

8. What does a black flag mean?

9. During the BPP, who is allowed to answer questions from the judges?

10. What happens if a driver completes more than two runs in a discipline?

1. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 65 points. Your team received 61 points but your team missed their timeslot for BPP. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place

2. What is the minimum height of the university name on both sides of the car?

3. Your team reiceves 59.3 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 71.9 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

4. What are requirements of using a standard Impact Attenuator?

5.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

6. As an EV Team without DV, what is your maximum total score of Busniess Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Skid Pad, Acceleration and Efficiency together?

7. What does a black flag mean?

8. What is the minimum allowed static ground clearance, including driver?

9. Which of the following requirements are a must for all non DV electric cars with wings, when moving the vehicle on the competition site? (Multiple choice)

10.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data. (FS2025 Rules)

11.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data. (FS 2025 Rules)

12. Your Team Sponsor offers you a Driver’s Harness. After examining the harness and the rules, an engineer in your team reports that the attachment of the harness can not be welded to the chassis structure. Furthermore, the engineer makes 4 statements. Which of these statements is true?

13. What is the length of the acceleration track?

14. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.3 secs but knocks down 5 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

15. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 450 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1200 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 50 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

16. Your team completes their best autocross run in 71.9 secs but goes off course once and knocks over two cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 73.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

17. What is the total surface area of percy (including connection pieces)? Persume the connection pieces have a width of 20mm. Give answer in miles to one decimal place

18. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 69 points. Your team received 33 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

19. What is the diameter of the inside skidpad circle?

20. What is the minimum amount of ASR needed at the Event when being a DV Team?

1. Which of the following requirements of the brake light assembly must be met to be rules compliant? (multiple choice)

2. Your team is considering two languages, Verilog and VHDL, for programming an FPGA. Which languages could be used?

3. How long will it take to discharge C1 below 60V using the following constant current sink if it is initially charged at 565V? (MOSFET’s VGSth: 4V) Give answer to two decimal places in secs.

4. Your BSPD has been triggered although the driver did not touch the driving pedal. What could have gone wrong? (multiple choice)

5. Which of the following statements regarding the Brake System is false?

6. Your head of powertrain has found a battery cell with excellent specifications and yet cheap. He decides upon a 142s2p accumulator configuration using the cells with a capacity of 5.8 Ah. The manufacturer specifies an internal impedance of 1.5 mOhm. However, after a while you notice the cells are of horrible quality and their real capacity varies significantly leading to an unbalanced accumulator.

He performed experiements to find an approximation of the cells SoC relation to their open-circuit voltage (EMF) as shown in the following figure:

Assume due to imbalance, exactly half of the accumulators cells are at 40% SoC and half at 80% SoC. What current will be drawn at the maximum allowed power usage? Give answer in Amps to nearest whole number

7. The following processes have to be measured by the AMS. (Multiple choice)

8. Which of the following statements is false regarding the difference between Lead-based batteries, Nickel-based batteries and Lithium-based batteries?

9. How much current flows when 99 C passes down a wire in 11 s? Give answer in amps as a whole number.

10. You want to drive with a Lithium Polymer Cell with 3.2 Ah and weighing 70 g. Which of the following configurations would be allowed by the rules? Hint: Unorm = 3.7 V, Umax = 4.2 V

1. The previous season you could recuperate only 25% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 63% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 9.6 kWh of energy in your accumulator during the last season, how much energy must your new accumulator have, if you assume, that it’s the same length and speed? Give answer in kWh to one decimal place.

2. The kinetic energy of a 8 lbs 4 oz box as it was dropped reaching ground is 10125J. Determine the speed as it lands. Give answer to one decimal place in m/s.

3. Calculate the Normal force on the rear left tyre during the first skidpad lap. You can assume, that your vehicle is in a steady-state condition and that there is no longitudinal acceleration. Further it can be assumed, that all 4 wheels have a lateral grip coefficient of 1.4. You can use the centerline radius stated in the rules. Following information regarding the vehicle are given. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons.

m = 220 kg

Cl = 3.8

A = 1 m^2

Rho = 1.1 kg/m^3

Wheelbase: L = 1.53

Trackwidth:t = 1.2 m

Height of CG: h = 0.2 m

Weight distribution/COP: 50%

4. A racing car rolls to a stop on a horizontal course with an initial speed of v. It decelerates
only by friction with a rolling resistance of μF, which is supposed to be independent of
the current velocity.
What is the distance s the car needs to stop?
v = 230mph, μF = 0.17, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

5. in m, to decimal numbers seperated by a point (example: 150.00), no unit requirment for the solution

6. in cm^3, round to decimal numbers sperated by point (13.5) no unit int the answer

7. A racing car rolls to a stop on a horizontal course with an initial speed of v. It decelerates
only by friction with a rolling resistance of μF, which is supposed to be independent of
the current velocity.
What is the distance s the car needs to stop?
v = 300 km/h, μF = 0.15, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

8. In a gas pipe, the gas pressure pG is measured using a U-tube manometer connected at the bottom. Above the meniscus of the measuring liquid (mercury with density ρQ) on the gas side, there is a column of water with height h₂ and density ρW.
Question:
What negative pressure △pU (vacuum) exists in the pipe compared to the external pressure p₀?

Result in Pa, two decimal numbers seperated by a point (exp. 15.3). Do not put the Unit in the field below.

9. Calculate delta_h1 and delta_h2 in mm (integers), seprate the value with a comma, no space in between, delta_h1 is the first value (exp.: 126,4)

10. How much current flows when 99 C passes down a wire in 11 s? Give answer in amps as a whole number.