Formula Student

[Mackmot]

Today I went to the launch of a car, it wasnt a major car company or F1 team but the Leeds University Formula Student 2000 car.

If you do not know about this championship, It is where students doing engineering courses, get together and build a car to do a form of Auto test and design contests in USA.

The car I saw look ed very good however I think that they have got the form of the championship wrong. The work they do is designed to give students to chance to use their skills in a practical environment. However they are building cars which they would never need to make in the future. Most racing is circuit racing and most of the students that are on the teams are intersested in Formula 1 and such like. So I cant understand why they do not make the champioship a circuit based championship which would give them all more experience in what they would do in future.