After 8 months of design and manufacture, Team Bath Racing 2008 has finally launched TBR08 car on the University of Bath Parade. The team would like to thank our sponsors who have provided financial and technical support to the team to enable us to manufacture this car. We would also like to thank Andy Green, Andy Church and Guy Brace for the technical support they have provided the team to help them produce many of the parts seen on the car today.
What will TBR08 look like? A spy shot taken today might give you some clues!! If you want to find out the true facts about the car, come to our Launch Exhibition on 28th May 2008 at the University of Bath campus!!
TBR08 would like to thank Andy Robinson Race Cars for the completion of the chassis build. The chassis is now collected and placed in the new build room for the next TBR08 building stage.
20/12/2007 Updates: TBR08 chassis is all tack welded as seen from the picture above.
Our team has started the TBR08 chassis build at Andy Robinson Race Cars Workshop in Basingstoke on Monday, 10th December 2007.
TBR08 members exhibited the TBR07 car in the Bugatti Trust Historic Car Hillclimb Event in Prescott Hill on Sunday, 23rd September 2007.
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TBR08 have returned to the University of Bath to commence the next design iteration of the 2008 entry into the Formula Student event. The team plans to build on the success of TBR07 by building an even lighter four cylinders steel spaceframe car with numerous improvements.
Team Bath Racing have recorded yet another best results in the Formula Student competition, which was held in Silverstone this year. The team started well with strong performances in both the Costing and Business events. However, the team had to adapt the chassis to allow the car to compete after long discussions with the scrutineers. With scrutineering over the car went onto the acceleration event and recorded a second place finish with a time of 3.81 seconds. There were also solid performance at the sprint and the skidpad event which set the team up for the endurance and the possibility of a strong finish.
With rain expected on the sunday the higher placed teams ran earlier in the day to ensure a dry track. Bath went out on track with high hopes for the car. With consistent quick lap times and minimal penalties the team completed the endurance at a fourth place. An outstanding performance over the weekend the team was award as the world 6th place finisher. Once all the awards were presented it was also confirmed that despite stiff comeptition Team Bath Racing was the Highest Placed UK University.
TBR08 have sucessfully awarded a second place in the Class 3 Design Competition in 2007 Formula Student competition. The team completed the Design, Cost and Business events at high ranks. With these results the team came an overall second place in the competition providing excellent experience for the team in preperation for next years Class 1 event.
After the Class 3 event the team took the oppertunity to look around the pitlane and gather ideas for the new 2008 car.
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