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LATEST NEWS ON THE LAUNCH OF ISIS15

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The boys & girls of Oxford Brookes Racing

have been getting their hands dirty once

again, with the first stages of converting our

new challenger from a CAD model, to a

finished car.

January was a busy month for the team,

with much hard work required in order to

secure our places at the 2015 Formula

Student Competitions.

Some great work by the off-track team saw

us gain a position in the pre-registration

slot at the Formula Student Hungary

competition, which we will be entering for

the first time in 2015.

We also took part in the Formula Student

Germany rules quiz, and were able to

squeeze onto the entry list with less than a

minute to spare, guaranteeing our place on

the grid in Hockenheim once again.

Finally our attendance at Formula Student

UK was confirmed, where we will be

deviating from the team’s usual car number

#92, in order to take up our 2014

competition result, with the team running

the #6 after a great performance last year.

Having shown off ISIS 14 at the Autosport

International Show in the beginning of

January, the team’s attention quickly

returned to Wheatley as ISIS 15 began

manufacture.

The team has had a very good month with

the addition of new partners to the

program, competition entries achieved and

fantastic progress in the university

workshops helping parts & moulds speed

through production line, all assisting in the

successful delivery of OBR’s brand new

racing car, ready for summer 2015.

COMPETITION ENTRY

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This month Oxford Brookes Racing was very

proud to announce that Link Engine

Management Systems have begun an

engineering partnership with the team. The

partnership began with the donation of 2

Vi-PEC i88’s which will form part of the

many research projects that the powertrain

team are currently working on. We look

forward to working closely with Link in the

coming weeks and months.

The team are proud to announce that as

part of the 150th anniversary of the

university, the car will be launched on the

evening of Friday May 29th 2015 at Gipsy

Lane campus, Headington, Oxford.

There will be special guests on the evening

and the team look forward to inviting many

of our supporters, partners & Alumni to the

event. Watch this space for further details

and updates as the date draws closer.

NEWS IN BRIEF

LINK ECU PARTNERSHIP

2015 LAUNCH NIGHT

LAUNCH

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The carbon wishbones that we designed &

manufactured last year were very

successful, and the aim for 2015 is to

expand on this learning and make all of our

suspension links out of the same material,

and testing of this is already well underway

The team are renowned as the fastest car

on Avon tyres, however for the coming

season we will be making a change, after

the Avon A45 compound stopped

production. This has involved a range of

simulations and tyre data collection

including reviewing different tyres at a test

in October.

All of the data has now been collaborated

and we are hoping to announce the tyres

we have chosen for use in 2015 in the next

newsletter issue.

ENGINE & POWERTRAIN We have decided to continue with the

570cc KTM 530 EXC engine for 2015 and

try and find even more power and reliability

than we found last year, with some

mapping work on both our own dyno and on

a rolling road. We are hoping to bridge the

gap to the 4-cylinder cars in the

acceleration event, and make our mark

once again in the Sprint & Endurance

events.

We are continuing our work into changing

the order of the gear track in the sequential

gearbox so that we are able to insert an

extra gear ratio, allowing us to get more

torque off the starting line, and hopefully

see another gain in dynamic performance.

This month NGK donated all our spark plug

for the season which has formed part of the

work we have been carrying out

on the dyno.

SUSPENSION

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OBR.BROOKES.AC.UK 2014 was our first year with wings since

the early 2000’s, and we still feel that in

the current regulations aerodynamics can

add significant performance to the car

In 2015 the envelope for wings is much

smaller but we are still aiming for a 30%

Increase in CL on last year, with CFD

simulations pointing towards breaking that

target by some distance.

In order to reduce complexity and

manufacturing time, the design philosophy

was to have as many common elements as

possible. Due to this the mould

manufacture will be faster and cheaper,

and is currently on-track to be completed in

the coming days.

Trelleborg have generously donated all of

the material for their front wing

manufacture, which is currently being

machined.

We would also like to thank Oxford Brookes

Racing Alumni Martin Lloyd and current

team member Samuel Unsworth for their

donation towards the wing manufacture.

CHASSISWith only minor changes to the regulations

in the chassis department, the design

philosophy behind our carbon-aluminium

monocoque in 2014 has not changed. The

2015 car will see the team aiming to

produce another chassis under 30KG

which was achieved for the first time last

year. The team have slightly adapted some

of the designs to try and save even more

weight by using different types and

thicknesses of carbon fibre.

January saw the beginning of chassis

manufacture with the help of the

university’s partner Banbury & Bicester

College (Formerly OCVC). They allowed us

use of their Autoclave for the manufacture

of the carbon fibre skins and because of

this the chassis is currently well on its way.

AERODYNAMICS

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Power curves on the dyno

Spark plugs from NGK

Meeting famous faces at Autosport Driver selection at Base Performance

Wishbone testing in the Stress Lab Chassis build in full swing

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