RS Components sponsors engineers at Formula Student competition

RS Components has sponsored two new student teams participating in the 2015 Formula Society of Automotive Engineers-Australasia (SAE-A) competition.

The teams from Swinburne University of Technology and the University of Melbourne join four other teams from University of Technology, Sydney, University of New South Wales, University of Wollongong and Curtin University to benefit from RS’s sponsorship programs in support of young engineers.

The competition challenges the student teams to design, build and race a 600 cc formula-style race car. RS will sponsor products giving the students access to thousands of the latest technologies and components. This will help them find new inspirations to develop new ideas in their racecar designs.

“More often than not, students absorb best when learning is taken out of the classroom, and the Formula SAE-A competition presents a key opportunity to simulate the real world for young engineers. As teams showcase their cost-effective vehicles, their understanding of the vehicle exhibits the abundance of talent in this field, often landing them employment in big names in the automotive industry,” said Guy James Dann, country manager of Australia and New Zealand, RS Components.

The team at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Redback Racing, was awarded second place in the Cost and Manufacturing Event of Formula SAE-A 2014. The next Formula SAE-A main event in Australia is scheduled for December 2015.

RS also has similar sponsorship programs with universities in Europe and Japan.