ABOUT US
The Competition
Formula Student is an engineering competition held annually in several countries. Student teams from around the world design, build, test, and race a small-scale formula style racing car. The cars are judged on a few criteria. There are dynamics and statics events. Each one measures the characteristics of the vehicle such as endurance, cost or engineering design, inter alia.
The Project
This project, in addition to improving our engineering skills above the content learnt in the lectures, also helps us gain soft skills, such as time and resource management, public speaking and teamwork. Furthermore, it helps creating professional opportunities for the students.
The team currently has four cars: IFS01 (combustion), IFS02 , IFS03 and IFS04 (electric). We are now progressing in the development of electric cars with the new model, the IFS05, whose aim is to improve on the performance achieved by our previous car.
History
ISEL Formula Student was founded in 2013. Initially it was made up of just 7 members, but it has been growing.
Initially there were only seven members, but this number has grown since then.
We currently have around 50 students taking part in the project, from all ISEL courses.
In 2013-2014 the team began designing the IFS01 car. It is a combustion vehicle whose main features are its lightness, safety and simplicity. In 2014, the team took part in the Silverstone competition in class 2, project class, where they finished in third place.
In 2014-2015, began the process of manufacturing the IFS0, which competed in Barcelona. In that same competition the vehicle was highlighted as the best car among the teams with only one year.
The 2015-2016 season was the time to improve the IFS01 vehicle with the IFS01 EVO project
With ambition ever present, in 2016-2017 the team started a new project, the IFS02, the team's first electric vehicle. The team took part in the competition in the Czech Republic in 2017 with the IFS01 evo, with a better performance.
In 2017-2018, the team competed in Barcelona with the IFS02 prototype and in the 2018-2019 season, with the vehicle already manufactured, the team took part in the Formula Student competition in Germany.
The 2019-2020 season was atypical, with the team competing in Formula Student UK, in class 2, finishing 4th in the Business competition with the IFS03 prototype vehicle.
During the 2020-2021 season, it was not possible to hold competitions due to COVID-19. The team continued to carry out all the tasks necessary to perform well in the future.
In the 2021-2022 season, the team again took part in the Formula Student Spain competition in Barcelona with IFS03.
In 2022-2023 the team competed for the first time, with its IFS03 car, in the FS Austria competition at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg and in FS Portugal at the Kartódromo de Castelo Branco.
In 2023-2024, the team has developed its third electric vehicle, doing it in a year, the IFS04, and will once again go to the FS Spain and FS Portugal competitions, presenting the IFS04 to the public with a rollout.
This season 2024-2025, the team has started to develop its fourth electric vehicle, the IFS05.