Quiz Preparation

1. What does the yellow flag mean during the driving disciplines?

2. Which of these is/are not a penalty during autocross? (Multiple choice)

3. What is the maximum number of drivers allowed to compete at an event?

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

5. 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?

6. Which system is the content of CCBOM in 2026?

7. Which of the following documents is directly evaluated during Engineering Design Event?

8. How many points are assigned for the BOM discussion in the Cost and Manufacturing Event?

9.

Which of the following parts are not part of the Shutdown Circuit? (Multiple choice)

10. 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?

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

2. What is the maximum hight for aerodynamic devices rearward of a vertical plane through the rearmost portion of
the front face of the driver head restraint support ?

3.

Which of the following parts are not part of the Shutdown Circuit? (Multiple choice)

4. 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.

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

6. 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

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

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

9.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

10. What is the minimum diameter of the shutdown button in the cockpit?

11. How many sets of dry tyres are allowed to be used in the manual dynamic disciplines during one event?

12. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

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

14. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down five cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 1 min 13 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

15. What does a black flag mean?

16. What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

17. How many percentage of points is the Cost Understanding in the Overall Cost and Manufacturing Event?

18. How many events may a driver drive during a competition?

19.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

20. What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

1. 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

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

3. 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

4. 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.

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

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

7. Which of the following statements about LV battery packs with lithium based chemistry other than LiFePo4 is not true?

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

9. A thin circular, isolated wire made of copper with radius R lies on a table with its ends
connected to a Volt meter. Another, straight wire lies exactly along a diameter of the
circular wire, connected to an alternate current source i(t) = I0 sin(wt).
The experimental setup is shown in the following Figure:

Which effective voltage Ueff does the Volt meter display?
R = 10 cm, maximum current I0 = 1 A, f = 50 Hz.
Give your answer in Volts with three decimal places

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

1. Answer in MJ, round to one decimal number (example 45.7), no unit in the answer

2. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 0.255 W. The lorry drives for 51 s. Calculate the energy transferred in Joules and round to one decimal places.

3. Unit: kg/(m^3), to decimal number seperated by: . (exp. 15.3), write only the number in the field below

4. 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.

5. 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).

6. 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

7. A ball at a height of 20ft on Earth with a gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg, gained 284 J of gravitational potential energy. Calculate the mass of the ball. Give answer to two decimal place in kg.

8. 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.

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

10. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 9.6 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 1.9 m/s. At what time does it reach this height on the way down? Give both answers separated by a comma to one decimal place.