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This page presents the formula student team from Aalborg University.

On the tabs above you can read more about the team organization, details on the cars, pictures and movies from the different events throughout the team’s history, and much more. Enjoy..

Further info about the formula student competition can be found below.





The formula student (or Formula SAE outside europe) competition is a racing / engineering series, which challenge teams of different university students to conceive, design, fabricate and compete with small, formula style, autocross vehicles.

To give the maximum design flexibility, the rules of the series gives very few restrictions on the overall vehicle design. The main part of the rules is intended to issue concerns about safety and explain the different events at the competitions. The latest rules can be found here.

The main design objective for the vehicles in the series is to have a very high performance in terms of acceleration, braking and handling and be sufficiently durable to successfully complete all the events at the competition.

As mentioned above, the competition is subdivided into different events, both static representing the engineering part and dynamic representing the racing (and testing) part.

The events and points possible for each event is shown in the following table:

Static Events:
Presentation 75
Engineering Design 150
Cost Analysis 100
Dynamic Events:
Acceleration 75
Skid-Pad 50
Autocross 150
Fuel Economy 100
Endurance 300
Total sum: 1000


Points are given by judging deliberation for the static events, while the points in the dynamic events are based on the time of the fastest car, and calculated relative to this for the other competitors.

The car with the highest sum of point at the end of the competition wins.

The 2010 Formula SAE Competition Series consists of the following competitions:
  • Formula SAE Michigan held in Michigan, USA and organized by SAE
  • Formula SAE California held in California, USA and organized by SAE
  • Formula SAE Australasia held in Australia and organized by SAE Australasia
  • Formula SAE Brazil held in Brazil and organized by SAE Brazil
  • Formula SAE Italy held in Italy and organized by ATA
  • Formula Student held in the United Kingdom and organized by IMechE
  • Formula Student Germany held in Germany and organized by VDI


In addition to the official series a number of unofficial events based on the same concept and rules are held throughout the world.

The Unicorn team’s main focus is the two formula student events in UK and Germany respectively. The team has also participated in some of the unofficial competitions e.g. Dutch Open 08 – Netherlands and Baltic Open 09 - Finland
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