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FS2019: the cars, the passion, the excitement

Formula Student Team

With just five weeks to go (37 days to be exact), anticipation is running high amongst the dozens of teams competing in this summer's Formula Student 2019 event.

With more than 130 teams taking part this year, there's a lot of great announcements and car unveilings going on in the run up to the competition. From petrol-powered internal combustion engines to electric powertrains and even a hybrid entry, together with the FS-AI Autonomous competition, there's a serious amount of motoring muscle coming to Silverstone next month.

Here's a preview of just four of the recently announced cars for 2019:

fs19_mpt_june_02TEAM BATH RACING ELECTRIC

Currently the top-ranked British Electric team, the University of Bath are keen to maintain their status and climb the leaderboard this year - read their team interview.

Event sponsors MAHLE Powertrain recently attended TBRe's car launch - read about their thoughts and much more on this recent article.

61095579_545329009326499_3616126544390383291_nUG RACING

One of several teams from Scotland, University of Glasgow's UG Racing have come on leaps and bounds, scoring an impressive 11th place ranking last year - read their full team interview.

With the launch of their new car UGR-19, they now have their eyes on breaking into the top ten for the first time. Keep an eye open for the yellow and black car on track.

58430452_164156651262810_5192848042386442772_nALIGN RACING UiA

Despite only entering the competition last year, the team from Norway's University of Agder showed they were no strangers to engineering, picking up the coveted Best Newcomer trophy for 2018.

Having learned key lessons from 2018, their newest car Solan aims to build on their past successes and really show their prowess as a team in Saturday and Sunday's Dynamic events.

62068966_2336691109707938_8947269042029199360_nOXFORD BROOKES RACING

Having narrowly missed out on victory last year to Australia's Monash Motorsports, 2018 runner up from Oxford Brookes University are keen to keep up the pressure.

With a newly unveiled car, will they join Cardiff Racing as the second British winners of Formula Student UK? We look forward to finding out!

Want to see more?

Join us this year on the spectator days 19-21 July 2019 - advanced tickets are available from the Silverstone website!

https://www.silverstone.co.uk/events/formula-student

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