An update on things

First of all, I hope all of the exams went well for everyone and that you've all made it through with your sanity intact! So a couple of updates on the Formula Student front:

We now have confirmed places at both Formula Student UK (at Silverstone) and Formula Student Germany, which takes place in Hockenheim. We're car number 31 for both events, which just happens to be the reversal of the number 13 we had last year, let's just hope that means we're going to have a reversal of fortunes too! Take a look here for all things FS Germany:

http://www.formulastudent.de/

Also, i've been doing quite a bit of work on the website lately. You might have noticed the pictures that have appeared to the right of the blog - this is a direct live feed from Flickr, so whenever we post photos up, you'll get to see them right away. Secondly, i've just updated the cars page, now all of the cars have pictures and most have a summary so make sure you take a look at some Cardiff Racing history. The other main update is the Events page is now finished - the beauty of this is that it takes events directly from our Google Calendars page and puts them on there, nice and handy, that's where all the deadlines will be posted in due time!

Hope you're all well,
Chris

Radio Interview

Formula Student team featured on BBC Radio Wales (11/1/2011)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/radiowales/sites/sciencecafe/updates/20110111.shtml

Festive Photo

A bit of a festive picture for everyone to get in the Christmas mood . . . ,

Dewi

Cardiff Racing 12 Days of Christmas

To commemorate the arrival of the new parts, a new song:

"On the ____ day of Christmas, Cardiff Racing gave to me __________

12 Crankcase Gaskets
11 Weeks Have Gone
10 Resits for Matt
9 Miles per Gallon
8 Months till Silverstone
7 Comedy Comments
6 Shiny Chassis Panels
5 Chassis Benders!!!
4 Wet Cut Tyres
3 Working Starters
2 Brand New Fuel Pumps
and an engine that came in a box"

Some presents to go under the FS tree...

Christmas has come early this year it seems for us at Cardiff Racing, we've received some shiny new deliveries in preparation for the build of CR07! First of all, the new engine has arrived and this time it's a brand new Aprilia rather than rebuilt or second hand ones we've had in the past, we're still waiting for engine #2 to show up but hopefully that will be sometime soon! The engines still need to be run in I believe so that will probably take place on the dyno at some stage.

The second new and shiny addition to the paddock is the rather lovely looking chassis, once again made with the aluminium honeycomb, the assembly is going to begin sometime soon. I will say this though: some assembly is required! Keep watching the website for updates, and my apologies for the terrible photos that my phone produces...

Chris

Testing - Week 11

Had a great day testing this week. Got some impressive times in and getting consistent too. Overall were happy with the results. TC working nicely, engine remarkably reliable and got some couple of drivers in there too. Hopefully we'll have equally as impressive test days in the near future too . . .

Carlsberg don't do Formula Student test days . . but if they did we would've at least gone . . .

On a better note our Christmas Meal was lovely! It wasn't what we thought it would be, but nonetheless an awesome meal! Thanks to everyone except Ben Comana for adhering to the smart/casual dress code. For gods sake even Griff looked mildly smart!

Thanks, and if I don't see some of you in the next two days have a lovely Christmas and a happy new year and see you in 2011 for what hopes to be a good year!

Cheers,

Dewi

Xmas Meal

Hi everyone, just a quick message to say that I've booked our christmas meal for Tuesday. It'll be in Salt n Pepper steak house on City Road at 7:30. If people can just leave a comment on here or text me just to confirm you're coming I would be very grateful. We were thinking of doing posh dress but some people can't be bothered so I think we'll stick to smart/casual. Cheers, and see you all then!

Gavin on behalf of Dewi