Quiz Preparation

What is the penatly for driving off course during acceleration?

What does the yellow flag mean during the driving disciplines?

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

What is AMS short for?

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?

How many cones do you need to build the skidpad track

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)

What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

Which of the following certifications for helmets is not allowed?

Are teams allowed to decide whether they drive on rain tires or slicks by themselves?

Which of the following statements are wrong? (Multipel Choice)

Each team must have two 0.8kg fire extinguishers.

Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 5.9 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 5.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

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

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

A team can register up to how many Electrical System Officers?

To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 250 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1000 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?

An official has the right to remove the scrutineering sticker from the car, if the car is no longer rule compliant.

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. (FS2025 Rules)

How long is water sprayed on the car during the rain test?

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

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

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

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

Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 6.0 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 maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

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

An EV team without driverless components have 9 parts of scrutineering to pass before being allowed to compete on track.

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

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

Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

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

Which of the following requirements of the brake light assembly must be met to be rules compliant? (multiple choice)

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)

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

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

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

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

The Wet Skid Pad World Record was set at FSN2019 by TU Delft. They managed to set a time of 4.901 for the left circle and a time of 5.031 for the right circle. Assume the run was completed perfectly along the center line of the circles. What was their average speed during this record run? Give answer to two decimal places in mph.

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

A 30 lbs model helicopter flying at 51 mph, calculate its kinetic energy. Answer in J to 3 significant figures.

A team is in the process of validating the compliance of the shoulder harness bar used in their car. Choose the part in which their configuration is incompliant:

Calculate the gravitational potential energy of a 4 kg object at 15 m above Earth’s surface with gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg. Give answer to three significant figures in J.

Calculate the Normal force on the rear left tyre during the first skidpad lap. You can assume, that your vehicle is in a steady-state condition and that there is no longitudinal acceleration. Further it can be assumed, that all 4 wheels have a lateral grip coefficient of 1.4. You can use the centerline radius stated in the rules. Following information regarding the vehicle are given. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons.

m = 220 kg

Cl = 3.8

A = 1 m^2

Rho = 1.1 kg/m^3

Wheelbase: L = 1.53

Trackwidth:t = 1.2 m

Height of CG: h = 0.2 m

Weight distribution/COP: 50%

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.

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.

A refrigeration unit cools water of mass 3 kg by 33 °C. Find the thermal energy removed from the water. The specific heat capacity of water is 4186 J/kg celsius. Give answer to three significant figures in kJ.

Calculate the maximum possible cornering speed (in kph) for the following FSAE car when going through a 20 m radius corner.

m = 260kg; cl *A * Rho = -6 kg/m; Tyre coefficient of friction = 1.5; g = 9.81 m/s^2.

The vehicle can be treated as a point mass, driving resistances neglected. Round to 1 decimal