Quiz Preparation

Teams who remove their vehicle from the event site after
the event has begun will be disqualified from the event.

How many events may a driver drive during a competition?

Can a team be eliminated from the Engineering Design Event by the judges, if every document of theirs was accepted and they are present at the Engineering Design Event?

Situation during the Endurance: A driver spins with the car and is driving in reverse to get back on track. What is wrong in this situation?

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

What does the yellow and red striped flag mean during Endurance and Autocross Event?

What is the maximum amount of points a EV team can recieve at an event?

What is the penatly for hitting over a cone during skidpad?

What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

The car is tipped to 60° during the tilt test?

How many manual dynamic events can one team compete in during a competition?

The following items have to be on or attached to the push bar, if you are an EV team. (multiple choice)

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

How far is the car tipped during the tilt test?

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

What does the yellow and red striped flag mean during Endurance and Autocross Event?

Which statement about the Ready-To-Drive sound is correct?

Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

What is the minimum number of points a team recieves for finishing an autocross run?

What is the minimum tread depth of the rain tires?

You want to use this shutdown button left and right between the main hoop and the main hoop bracings. Is this application rules compliant?

Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.2 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

What is not a ’system‘ in the Cost Reports Bill of Material?

What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

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

What is the minimum number of points a team recieves for finishing an acceleration run?

Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 5.3 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 3.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

What is the length of the acceleration track?

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)

What is the area of the cockpit opening template (including the area allowed for the steering) in square inches rounded to one decimal place?

You have an electric car with these specifications:

• ten 12V batteries
• constant velocity of 80 km/h
• flat road (friction 1.2kN -> aerodynamic load included)
• load for battery 160 Ah
• efficiency of 80% (Motor)

How far can you drive with one load? Give answer to nearest whol number in km.

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

Which of the following statements about the Tractive System Accumulator are wrong? (Multiple choice)

A capacitor with a capacitance of 100 μF is currently charged to a voltage of 199.8V. How much additional energy is needed to charge it to a voltage of 301.4V. Give answer to 4 significant figures in Joules

Three inductors are connected as shown in the following figure:

Given that L1 = 2L2, find L1 and L2 such that the equivalence inductance is L = 0.7 H.
Give your answers in Henry, rounded to three decimal places separated by a comma (L1, L2)

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

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

The previous season you could recuperate only 27% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 69% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 6.3 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

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

Which of these HV- and LV-components have to be fire-retardant? (Multiple Choice)

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.

Using an indicator, the cylinder pressure can be plotted as a curve over the piston stroke. The curve recorded for the compression stroke of an internal combustion engine can be approximated by the relationship p⋅V^n=const..
What is the amount of work done by the volume change if the following values are given?

given: V_1=10^-3 m^3; p_1=0.1 MPa; p_2=3 MPa; n=1.3

Round to one decimal number seperated by a point. Input in Joul without writing the unit in the field below (example: 152.9).

A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm

An air as an ideal gas expands adiabatic from a volume of V1 = 1,00l with its pressure of p1 = 10^5 Pa to 1/10 of its original pressure. What volume V2 (in litres) does the gas reach after it’s expansion? Round to two decimal places

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.

Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

If the density of aluminium is 2.71 kg/m^3, find the volume of a 0.888 kg of aluminium. Give answer in m^3 with two decimal places.

Calculate the pull force on the plate in Newton. Round to 2 numbers seperated by a point (exanple: 9.13)

The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120

A cat of mass 12 kgs ran at 65mph. What is its kinetic energy? Answer in J to the nearest whole number