Formula Trinity is Trinity College’s Dublin entry to the international formula student competition (FSAE). Founded in August 2017 with the initiative, perseverance, and careful management of students. Over 80 undergraduates and postgraduates have participated in the team, proudly representing Irish motorsport, student engineering, and student-directed projects at large, with all of the organisation, structure, and initiative coming from within the student body. All ordinary and management members are volunteers, the project being an extra-curricular activity which members invest their personal time into.
The team itself is composed of students from a range of degree programs such as engineering, computer science, business, geology, and law. This diversity arms the team with a great pool of ideas, talents and experiences. The sheer determination of our volunteer team enable us to transform ideas and dreams into reality and eventually a functional vehicle. A range of classes are represented, with the shared drive to succeed and do well by our friends, sponsors, and country being what binds us.
The students are split into several departments which oversee major sections of the project. All the design and engineering work is completed by the six subsystems which make up the vehicle. There is also a dedicated Business & Media department which handle all the fundraising, accounting and outreach. The Management team oversee the entire project and ensure the race car is ready for competition. Our student driven structure allows us to harbor student ingenuity and to overall provide opportunities for students to undertake real and interesting projects.
Formula Trinity is strictly a non-profit entity, is not affiliated with Trinity College Dublin and does not represent the views of Trinity College Dublin.
Our Mission Statement helps keep the team focused on why it was founded, and the roles and duties it exists to serve. It is a constant reminder of our roots as an organic student body that came together of our own impetus, for the purposes of enjoyable competition, for learning the mechanics, engineering, business, and administration involved in running a project of this nature, and for developing contacts and skills within the relevant industries. They represent our values as a team, the principles under which we came together, and those under which we remain together in this undertaking of building Trinity College Dublin’s first racing car. They are as follows:
-Successfully represent Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and our sponsors at the Formula Student competition every summer.
-Provide a friendly environment for students to engage in real engineering projects in order to sharpen new skills, develop interests and to bridge the gap between students and industry.
Formula Student (FSAE) was founded in the University of Texas thirty nine years ago, by a student branch of the local Society of Automotive Engineers, when their local circuit racing events became financially unfeasible. Almost four decades later, the competition is overseen by the International SAE, with smaller organisations running competitions around the world, and is now the most prestigious international engineering and design competition at third level.
University teams must design, build, test and pitch a formula style race car under a fast pace and demanding environment. Over 400 universities take part in the events around the world, with over 12,000 students participating annually.
The competition aims to produce undergraduates with hands on experience in engineering and management roles through the many elements that come into making a successful team. Teams conduct their own research, design, manufacture, testing and fund raising. Formula Student UK is organised by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and held in Silverstone racetrack every summer.
Under the Formula Student UK rules, the points regime for Class 1 is broken down into two categories: dynamic (675) and static (325).
Acceleration, autocross, efficiency, endurance and skid pad make up the dynamic events which occur on circuit at Silverstone, while the static events are composed of the quality of our business case, vehicle design, manufacturing, and management of cost.
