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I was the Technical Director/Team Leader of the Class 1 UCLAN entry for 2005.
We built our car with some very specific specifications in mind, in order to meet these we came up with a very unorthodox car.
This car was designed and built in under 9months, by a team of final year engineers.
As Jamie (goldust) has mentioned, it was done largely in house, with only a hand full of processess being outsourced.
I belive that we had one of the best learning expereinces of any team at any FS/FSAE etc, event. Team members changed so much within that nine months you would'nt recognise them.
So to be frank, the actual competition took second place to what went before it. If you think it was a "silly car", fine, i'm sure if you ask any of my team they won't agree, and if you ask many of the people at the competition they won't either.
We did something different, it worked well, we got further than the university had got before. Lessons will be transfered to next years batch of students who will choose to take heed or not.
We did it our way, we learnt alot.
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