Live - FSG Competition Blog

Short summary

A real roller coaster of emotions!

We started the competition on a strong note, needing only minor fixes during battery and mechanical scrutineering, and even managed to pass them the very next day. Everything was going smoothly—until we had to go through high-voltage checks during electrical scrutineering. A problem was discovered in the battery, which meant we lost our accumulator sticker again and had to scramble for more fixes.

Thankfully, we pulled it all together just in time to participate in all the events on Wednesday. We kicked things off with our first-ever skidpad run in FEB’s history, followed immediately by autocross. That’s when we discovered only two of our motors were working—and during the run, one of those failed, meaning we had to limp through with just a single motor, losing drive completely in our first run.

Determined to figure out the issue, we made some quick setting changes and tried again. This time, we managed to complete the autocross run (another first in FEB’s history!) but were still running with only two working motors. With time running out, we rushed to fix the motor issues before the acceleration event. With just ten minutes left on the clock, we finally got everything working and went for our runs. Two fantastic runs had us cheering—only to later find out we were 0.3 over the power limit, leading to a double disqualification.

The team’s mood was mixed: frustrated and disappointed by the DSQs, yet proud that we had made history by completing all dynamic events in our first-ever competition.

Then came endurance day. Our slower autocross time (understandable with only 1.5 motors) meant we had to start as one of the first teams. Managing the battery carefully and driving as efficiently as possible, the tension was sky-high. But we did it! With a clean driver change and plenty of lift-and-coast, we successfully finished endurance on our very first try.

We were already thrilled with everything we’d achieved, but the prize ceremony brought even more good news. Thanks to our careful energy management, we secured 3rd place in efficiency, bringing home a trophy! To top it all off, we placed 6th overall with more than 500 points in total.

This was an incredible start to the season—now we’re ready to push even further!

Scruti Status

Mech Scruti

PASSED

Battery Scruti

PASSED

Elec Scruti

PASSED

Rain Test

PASSED

Driverless Scruti

RE-SCRUTI

Brake Test

Manual

PASSED

Driverless

NO INFO YET

Friday 15/08

08:42 – Load truck

11:23 – Truck leaves to FSG

11:30 – Do last fixes on car

Summary

Nothing special, loading the truck and making the last final adjustments.

Sunday 17/08

09:00 – Meet and leave to FSG

16:02 – Arrive and setup camping

18:42 – Dinner

21:13 – Team briefing and chill

Summary

Drive to FSG, some traffic but smooth ride overal. Now time to relax before the real work starts.

Monday 18/08

07:00 – Wake up and breakfast

08:00 – Registration

08:10 – Setup pits

10:00 – Batt Scruti

11:32 – Back from Batt Scruti: small fix needed

12:03 – Lunch

14:00 – Mech Scruti

15:44 – Back from Mech, couldn’t finish everything and have to do a minor fix

18:02 – Dinner

20:44 – Debrief and chill

Summary

Couldn’t get our first sticker yet, some small fixes needed both for mech and battery scruti but no big problems. Car is prepared and ready for tomorrow.

Tuesday 19/08

05:30 – 4 Legends of the team wake up to get in queue for mech re-scruti

06:00 – Get in queue for mech re-scruti

07:00 – Wake up and breakfast

08:01 – Get to the pits and start working

09:00 – Batt re-scruti

09:02 – Mech re-scruti

09:34 – Batt scruti passed!

09:40 – Mech scruti passed! Do have to take some penalty points for a wrong interpretation of the rules on the seatbelt though…

10:00 – Going to elec scruti now

11:18 – Elec scruti passed! Now driverless part

11:55 – Not enough time to finish DV scruti

12:00 – Lunch

14:15 – Pre-Inspection and Driver Egress

14:40 – All drivers passed!

17:30 – Rain test

17:39 – Rain test passed!

18:02 – Brake test

18:15 – Brake test failed, going to check

18:22 – Dinner

18:44 – Brake test again

18:56 – Brake test passed!

21:00 – Team Welcome

Waiting for updates…

Tuesday 15/07

07:00 – Wake up and breakfast

08:01 – Get to the pits and start working

09:00 – Working on HVI, lost batt sticker…

11:00 – ED Presentation

12:00 – Cost & Manufacturing

13:12 – Lunch

15:15 – Going to Batt Scruti

16:50 – Found another problem, fixing it now

19:10 – Batt Scruti

19:33 – PASSED BATT SCRUTI

19:50 – Elec Scruti

20:10 – Dinner

20:58 – PASSED ELEC SCRUTI

20:59 – Weighing the car

22:30 – Team debrief and celebrate scruti win

Wednesday 16/07

07:00 – Wake up and breakfast

08:01 – Get to the pits and start working

08:58 – Egress

09:22 – Egress done!

10:11 – Tilt Test done

10:32 – Rain Test done

12:12 – Lunch

13:11 – Brake test passed! All stickers achieved so we’re good to go!

13:55 – Skidpad run: transponder wasn”t working. Need to place it at a different spot

14:20 – Skidpad run 1

16:45 – AutoX run 1

17:20 – AutoX run 2

18:25 – Acceleration run 1

18:28 – Acceleration run 2

18:31 – Got a DQ unfortunately on our Acceleration run. Went 0.3 over the power limit…

18:40 – Do small fixes on the car

20:30 – Dinner

22:00 – Pit closed

22:20 – Team debrief and enjoy evening

Thursday 17/07

07:00 – Wake up and breakfast

08:01 – Get to the pits and do last fixes on the car

09:10 – Get to endurance queue

09:30 – In endurance queue

09:49 – Run started

10:22 – Run finished, now post-scruti

10:34 – Mech post-scruti passed, now elec

11:48 – Elec post-scruti passed! WE DROVE EVERY EVENT ON FSN!

12:00 – Start cleaning the pits

13:00 – Enjoy rest of endurance before continuing cleaning

15:46 – Clean rest of pits 

18:03 – Order pizza’sss

19:40 – Team debrief and enjoy pizza

21:00 – Prize ceremony

22:04 – GET CALLED TO THE STAGE FOR THIRD PLACE ENDURANCE EFFICIENCY!

22:10 – Partyyy

Friday 18/07

08:00 – Wake up and breakfast

08:40 – Start packing everything

11:30 – Leave

12:30 – Quick lunch pitstop

13:30 – Drive back to the office

17:52 – Arrive at the office and unpack everything

19:02 – Everything unpacked and cleaned, now let’s go home after this crazy week