Iran Unveils Student-Made Formula 1 Car
Roham which is a single-seater car has been designed and built by a team of 12 students at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
All parts of the car with 600 cc engine volume and super gasoline fuel are designed by the team, and according to them, the engine parts, cooling system, system integration with engine, chassis and suspension system have been designed by researchers and engineers of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.
The chassis of the car is made of aluminum which is effective in reducing its weight. The body is made of carbon fiber and the total weight of the car is 280kg. The power of the student formula 1 car is 67 horsepower and its torque is 51 newton meters.
The car’s maximum speed is 110 km/h which can increase up to 170 km/h. The acceleration of the car is 5.2 seconds and during this time the car's speed reaches 100km/h.
The student-made formula 1 car is due to be sent to Italy for final preparations to participate in the Formula SAE races.
Formula SAE, which is due to be held in Italy on July 12-16 this year, is a student design competition organized by SAE International (previously known as the Society of Automotive Engineers, SAE). The competition was started in 1980 by the SAE student branch at the University of Texas at Austin after a prior asphalt racing competition proved to be unsustainable.
The concept behind Formula SAE is that a fictional manufacturing company has contracted a student design team to develop a small Formula-style race car. The prototype race car is to be evaluated for its potential as a production item. The target marketing group for the race car is the non-professional weekend autocross racer.
Each student team designs, builds and tests a prototype based on a series of rules, whose purpose is both ensuring on-track safety (the cars are driven by the students themselves) and promoting clever problem solving. There are combustion and electric divisions of the competition, primarily only differing in their rules for powertrain.
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