Friday, July 14, 2006
RS supports engineers of tomorrow
RS continues to support the engineers of tomorrow by taking pole position at the Formula Student Finals.
RS took a leading role in this year's Formula Student finals at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire held between the 5th and 8th July. As well as sponsoring three of the most prestigious awards, RS also became a full partner of IMechE, which organises the event, giving RS an important say in steering the future direction of the competition. Several RS regional sales teams also participated in the event by supporting local universities financially and by the donation of components, as well as offering discounts and support from RS' free technical help-line.
These sales teams include the Leeds Trade Counter which supported the University of Leeds' entrant, which this year won the Sprint Time Trial beating off competition from around the world.
Formula Student is a competition designed to promote excellence in engineering by challenging university students to design, build, develop, market and compete as a team with a small single-seat racing car.
The competition has been so successful that 40 universities from the UK and a similar number of universities from the rest of the world are participating in this year's event.
The competition is supported by the motor racing industry as well as universities, with Ross Brawn, Technical Director of the Ferrari Formula 1 team, the Patron of Formula Student.
Renault F1 director Paul Simmons also took an active part in this year's event by welcoming students and providing support to the event.
Both Audi and Ferrari are active participants and sponsor local universities.
RS continued this theme by inviting James Hewer Design Engineer from 888 Engineering, the race management team for Vauxhall's VX racing team who compete in the British Touring Car Championship, to present the prize for endurance to Oxford Brookes University.
Hewer was himself a Formula Student competitor before starting his highly successful career in the industry.
The other winners of RS sponsored prizes were the University of Leeds who won the prize for the sprint event and the University of Patras from Greece who won the prize for overall Class B winner.
'RS are proud to be associated with this event which is important practical experience for the next generation of motor racing engineers', said Graham Johnson, UK Marketing Manager at RS.
He continues, 'The students get the same first class service that all our regular customers receive, free support, guaranteed stock availability, guaranteed compliance to relevant standards and next day delivery available on over 135,000 components'.
James Hewer commented, 'As well as being technically challenging, Formula Student also teaches many skills not offered by universities, for example teamwork and communication'.
'While university offered the academic skills, this event provided the whole range of practical skills required to gain my dream job as an automotive racing designer, and as such I am delighted to be back here with RS to support this year's competition'.
RS took a leading role in this year's Formula Student finals at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire held between the 5th and 8th July. As well as sponsoring three of the most prestigious awards, RS also became a full partner of IMechE, which organises the event, giving RS an important say in steering the future direction of the competition. Several RS regional sales teams also participated in the event by supporting local universities financially and by the donation of components, as well as offering discounts and support from RS' free technical help-line.
These sales teams include the Leeds Trade Counter which supported the University of Leeds' entrant, which this year won the Sprint Time Trial beating off competition from around the world.
Formula Student is a competition designed to promote excellence in engineering by challenging university students to design, build, develop, market and compete as a team with a small single-seat racing car.
The competition has been so successful that 40 universities from the UK and a similar number of universities from the rest of the world are participating in this year's event.
The competition is supported by the motor racing industry as well as universities, with Ross Brawn, Technical Director of the Ferrari Formula 1 team, the Patron of Formula Student.
Renault F1 director Paul Simmons also took an active part in this year's event by welcoming students and providing support to the event.
Both Audi and Ferrari are active participants and sponsor local universities.
RS continued this theme by inviting James Hewer Design Engineer from 888 Engineering, the race management team for Vauxhall's VX racing team who compete in the British Touring Car Championship, to present the prize for endurance to Oxford Brookes University.
Hewer was himself a Formula Student competitor before starting his highly successful career in the industry.
The other winners of RS sponsored prizes were the University of Leeds who won the prize for the sprint event and the University of Patras from Greece who won the prize for overall Class B winner.
'RS are proud to be associated with this event which is important practical experience for the next generation of motor racing engineers', said Graham Johnson, UK Marketing Manager at RS.
He continues, 'The students get the same first class service that all our regular customers receive, free support, guaranteed stock availability, guaranteed compliance to relevant standards and next day delivery available on over 135,000 components'.
James Hewer commented, 'As well as being technically challenging, Formula Student also teaches many skills not offered by universities, for example teamwork and communication'.
'While university offered the academic skills, this event provided the whole range of practical skills required to gain my dream job as an automotive racing designer, and as such I am delighted to be back here with RS to support this year's competition'.
# posted by Swathi @ 1:57 AM 
