Quiz Preparation

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

2. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

3. 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 ?

4. What is the resulting time of a SkidPad run?

5. How many numbers of skidpad runs does a team have?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

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

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

5. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 49 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

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

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

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

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

10. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 24 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

11.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

12. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 400 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 950 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 70 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

13. 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.

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

15. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.0 secs but knocks down 11 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

16.

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

17. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 69 points. Your team received 33 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

18. How many percentage of points are the Finances in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

19. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.3 secs but knocks down 5 cones. 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.

20.

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. (FS 2025 Rules)

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

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

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

7. Your team is considering two languages, Verilog and VHDL, for programming an FPGA. Which languages could be used?

8. 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)

9. 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.

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

1. 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

2. A spring in a church clock has a spring constant of 10 N/m. What is its elastic potential energy store if it is stretched 8 m? Give answer in Joules to three significant figures.

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

6. The kinetic energy of a 8 lbs 4 oz box as it was dropped reaching ground is 10125J. Determine the speed as it lands. Give answer to one decimal place in m/s.

7. 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.

8. Calculate the force Fc working at point C. Give answer in kN rounded to one decimal place.

Forces at point A: Rax = 3kN, Ray = 9kN, Ma = 10kN/m

9. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 2.78 J/s. The lorry drives for 36 mins. Calculate the energy transferred in kJ rounded to three decimal places.

10. 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.