Aligarh Muslim University students shine at London event with 'desi' racing car

The formula racing car built by Aligarh Muslim University’s (AMU) engineering students has been judged as the 31st best in the world in the cost and manufacturing category at the Formula Student 2016 competition in London.

The 22-member student team, led by captain Arpit Upadhyay, was in the United Kingdom to display its manufactured Formula car.

The team scored 58.75 marks in the Cost, Manufacturing and Sustainability category.

The total cost of the car’s development is estimated at Rs 25 lakhs.

Talking to News18, team leader Arpit Upadhyay said, “We are trying to get in touch with Indian car makers for further research and development on our project and make it more sophisticated.”

The students’ delegation returned from London event on Sunday Aug 07,2016

Elaborating on the project, Arpit said the competition in this category for Indian students was very tough in comparison to European ones as they were solidly backed by top car makers like Audi.”

The team members started building the car in May 2015 and it was finalized a year later in May 2015.

All the team members-Arpit included, Ayush Mittal, Anchal Varshney, Mehul Varshney, Irfan Khan, Haani Farooqi, Mridul Sharma, Mohd Faraz, Sharif Kidwai, Shubham Varshney, Asim Noor, Faizan Anwar, Hamzah Khan, Asnal Rizvi, Hammad Murtaza, Kashif Zafar, Syed Faraz, Faraz Ahmad, Sagar Varshney, Areeb Mahmood, Wamiq Hashmi and Aman Agarwal-participated in the event.

The team consisted of students from all four years batches of Mechanical, Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering departments.

The Formula Student (FS) is Europe's most established educational motorsport competition operated by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IME).

The Universities from across the world participate in the challenge to design and build a single-seat racing car in order to compete in static and dynamic events which demonstrate their understanding and test the performance of the vehicle