Quiz Preparation

1. What is the penatly for driving off course during endurance?

2. What is BSPD short for?

3. What is the penatly for driving off course during acceleration?

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

5. What is the minimum score for the third place in the Business Plan finals (with three finalists)?

6. 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)

7. What is DNF short for?

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

10. What is allowed regarding telemetry during a run?

1. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down one cone. The fastest team overall completed their run in 75.7 secs but knocked down three cones. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

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

3. What is the minimum height of the university name and the car number added together?

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

5. 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

6. What is the minimum diameter of a shutdown button placed on the side of the vehicle behind the driver’s compartment?

7. 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

8. How far is the car tipped during the tilt test?

9. 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.

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

11. 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?

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

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

14. The length of the acceleration track is 75m. Hypothetically the acceleration of the cars is constant, and linear, without slip. The vehicle starts from the starting line of the Acceleration track and then covers 75m. At the finish line, the speed of the racing car is 108 km/h.

How much time (in secs) is needed for the car complete the Acceleration Event and what was the acceleration of the car ( in m/s^2)? Give the answers as whole numbers sparated by a comma (?, ?).

15. 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?

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The following parts are part of the Shutdown Circuit (Multiple choice)

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How many teams can be registered per university? (Multiple Choice)

18. What is the penatly for driving off course during endurance?

19. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 3.3 secs, but at the end of the run knocks over one cone. 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.

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

9. 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

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. 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.

3. The magnitude of the manifold reaction force FK is to be determined. In Newton, integer, no unit in the answer

4. A helicopter of mass 4200 kg is carrying a crate using a light extensible rope. The crate has a total mass of 800 kg, including its contents. The helicopter and crate are accelerating upwards at 2.0 ms^-2. What is the tension in the rope? Use gravititational field strength g is 9,81 N/kg. Air resistance can be ignored. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons

5. 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.

6. 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).

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

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

9. 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.

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