Quiz Preparation

1. 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?

2. What is true about the Cones & Markings for Autonomous Running?

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

4. During the BPP, who is allowed to answer questions from the judges?

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

6. What is allowed regarding telemetry during a run?

7. What is AMS short for?

8. What is the length of the acceleration track?

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

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

1. What is the minimum amount of ASR needed at the Event when being a DV Team?

2. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multiple Choice)

3. What is the penatly for hitting over a cone during skidpad?

4. What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

5. 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?

6. Your team recieves 23.9 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 82.3 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

7. 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.

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

9. What are requirements of using a standard Impact Attenuator?

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

11. 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

12. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 6.1 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

13. What is the minimum height of the characters of the car number?

14. For the rain test: (Multiple Choice)

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

16. What is the length of the acceleration track?

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

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

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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)

20. Each team must have two 0.8kg fire extinguishers.

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

2. 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

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. 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

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

6. Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

7. 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

8. For this Wheatstone Bridge based NTC temperature measurement circuit, which is the lowest voltage measurement (VAB) that is possible to obtain at 60ºC? (NTC B: 3435 +/-1%) Give answer in Volts rounded to two decimal points.

9. How long will it take to discharge C1 below 60V using the following constant current sink if it is initially charged at 565V? (MOSFET’s VGSth: 4V) Give answer to two decimal places in secs.

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

1. 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

2. The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120

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

4. 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.

5. Calculate the pull force on the plate in Newton. Round to 2 numbers seperated by a point (exanple: 9.13)

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7. 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.

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10. Before the endurance you pump nitorgen in your tires at a temperature of 20°C and 0.7 bar relative pressure. Knowing, that during the endurance the maximal tyre temperature will be around 60°C, what will be the maximal relative pressure of the tyre? Give answer in bar to two decimal places.