Phoenix Racing - Coventry University Formula Student

Our first shakedown test of the PR87-23 has been a success! 👏👏

A momentous occasion for everyone on the team who have been working hard to get the car running. All of us can't wait for FSUK in 2 weeks time.

Also a massive thank you to Mallory Park Circuit for providing us with a venue for testing! ❤️

NEW SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are delighted to announce that we have been working with BAMD to help manufacture a number of our composite components this year, as well as allowing us students to be a part of the manufacturing process as well!

Their expertise in the composite manufacturing industry for motorsport has been a massive help in ensuring our vehicle will be ready for FSUK 2023!

SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are excited to announce that we are continuing our partnership with Ogle Models & Prototypes for 2023, with their expertise in additive manufacturing helping us with producing our new oil sump as well as improving our in-house printing techniques!

We know they will be another element in helping us achieve our goal this year at the 2023 FSUK competition!

MotoFest Coventry is only 8 days away, and it will be a perfect chance for you to meet the Phoenix Racing team on the 3rd & 4th June!

Come find us outside the Lanchester Library and ask us about Formula Student, whether you are a previous participant, currently choosing what university degrees to pursue, or even just curious about the competition!

Best of all, MotoFest Coventry is FREE! So come down and visit us, as well as all the incredible vehicles that will be displayed and driven around the ring road. You seriously don't want to miss it! 🔥

SPONSOR ANNOUNCEMENT!

We are happy to announce that we have continued our partnership with norelem for the 2023 season!

norelem is a world-renowned provider of high-quality standard parts and an extensive database of CAD that can be implemented the designs for our Formula Student vehicle. norelem is also active within the Formula Student programme, providing expertise and industrial knowledge through their norelem ACADEMY programme to help and inspire future engineers.

We are all excited to have them return for 2023 and know that they will be a key part in helping Phoenix Racing in achieving our Top 10 goal this year!

It's always a great day in the workshop when a delivery arrives! 💙

Big thankyou to RS and RS Grassroots for providing us with the Formula Student Build Fund for 2023, these components will be a big help in ensuring that we have a strong car this year! 💪

The manufacturing of our Wiring Looms for 2023 has begun, which gives us the perfect opportunity to announce another new sponsor for 2023, EPLAN Global!

EPLAN is a world-renowned engineering company that helps streamline engineering processes using world-leading design software solutions for small and large enterprises. EPLAN's Electric P8 and Harness ProD have been an invaluable software solutions to the team to help produce schematic diagrams and the loom in 3D space, respectively. This has allowed for significant time reductions for designing the engine loom, as well as a substantial weight savings by using less wiring and connectors than previously.

Everyone in the IC Software team has been massively impressed and thankful for the powerful software that EPLAN has provided the team and knows that it will be a key asset in helping Phoenix Racing achieve its best result yet in the FSUK Competition.

Stay tuned for more updates with our Wiring Looms with EPLAN!

Our Newsbooks are back for 2023, starting off with our January-February edition. 📖

Includes an overview of Autosport International, Chassis and Composite update, and our new sponsorship with Rock Oil! 💙

Composite production is underway at the University's High-Performance Engineering Centre! 🏎

The composite manufacturing team have just completed their test piece, with the Composite Co-Lead Scott Johnson modelling the final product.🔥

We are extremely happy with the products we have sourced from our sponsor Easy Composites Ltd, with their 88g 18mm Spread-Tow and VB160 vacuum bags being used for our test piece. The high quality of Easy Composites’ products and the testing conducted allow Phoenix Racing to be confident to now start the production of our composite components for our 2023 FS car.

Keep watching this space to see our upcoming composite pieces! 💙

Announcing our Oil and Lubricant Sponsor for the 2023 Season, Rock Oil ! 🔥

Rock Oil is well renowned company in the motorcycle motorsport world, currently acting as the official oil and lubricant partner of the Bennetts British Superbike Championship. Their products have already impressed and been given high praise from us with the high-quality of their oils and the effectiveness of their cleaning aerosols and bottle products.

We know that having an incredible sponsor like Rock Oil will be crucial to help us achieve our goal this year. Keep up to date with us, as we plan to work with Rock Oil to show you guys us using their engine lubrications in action!

The 2023 Chassis is progressing well! Getting closer to our rolling chassis milestone one section at a time. 💪

We are back for 2023!

To start off the new year, we will be at Autosport International Show at the NEC, the largest motorsport show of the year! We will be displaying our 2022 Formula Student vehicle throughout the entire event from Thursday to Sunday.

If you are interested in Formula Student, curious about doing engineering at Coventry University, or just want to meet the team, then come meet us!

Semester 1? Completed it mate. 🎉

That is it for 2022! We didn't quite manage to meet the target of completing our chassis before Christmas. However, we are incredibly proud of the progress the team has made in the powertrains, suspension, and unsprung department whilst we were hit with unforseen delays with the chassis.

Next semester will be a big push for all of us to begin composite and assembly production, therefore everyone deserves a good rest with friends and family before Semester 2 starts in January!

We all at the team wish you a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Years! See you soon! 😄🎄🎉

On Wednesday, Phoenix Racing were invited to the Northampton base of MAHLE Powertrain for the opportunity to pitch our roadmap of our future powertrain development, including our commitment to conducting research into making the IC Engine more sustainable.

MAHLE Powertrain is one of the leading companies conducting research and testing of IC Engines to further reduce the impact they have on the environment and global emissions, as well as constantly developing battery and fuel cell technology to further maximise performance and range.

The team were honoured and enjoyed the fantastic opportunity MAHLE Powertrain provided, especially the factory tour of their facilities and the overall hospitality of the prestigious company.

The Christmas season has hit the Phoenix Racing workshop, only couple weeks more to go before we all head off for a well-deserved break! 🎄❤️

Last Friday, Phoenix Racing held its annual design show event for the students conducting the design development for the 2024 Formula Student car to show their progress to the motorsport faculty.

This year we invited our Alumni and Sponsors to the event to show our commitment to involve the parties more in the development of our Formula Student car, which helped to produce a fantastic night!

It was great to meet past students currently in the automotive and motorsport world such as Jaguar Land Rover and McLaren Applied Technologies, as well as catching up with our sponsors such as The Bugatti Trust Museum and Study Centre and Ogle Models & Prototypes!

Next up: The Autosport International event at the NEC in January!
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On the last day at the 2022 IMechE Formula Student UK Competition the endurance event took place, the main event all teams want to complete and score highly in! For the endurance, one of the drivers up to the task was our 2022 Team Leader, James Scott. James had an incredible amount of determination and commitment to our Formula Student program to ensure we would compete at competition. Now graduated and working at Polestar and the BTCC team BTC Racing, we are all thankful for the amount of effort he put into the team. He gave us a guiding example of how to run our team effectively and ways to improve our previous shortfalls, most notably involving more Alumni and 1st & 2nd year student into our program.

We ultimately fell short at the endurance event, not finishing due to a hydraulic problem. However for 2023, we are all determined to finish the endurance event and finish well to help us boost our commitment to finishing strongly in the Top 10. 🔥

We are proud to announce Red Bull as our energy sponsor for Phoenix Racing!

As engineering students, we are very familiar to working under stress with impending deadlines approaching and our strong commitment to Formula Student also. With this, there are days in the workshop where we need that boost of energy that tea and coffee can't provide alone, and Red Bull cans are often seen on the workshop tables. Having Red Bull as our sponsor will help us all to get the final designs of the car completed and be able to build our (aero) wings to compete in the 2023 Season!

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Rounding off our podium streak at the 2022 IMechE Formula Student UK Competition, here we are celebrating Tyler Hobson’s incredible run at the Sprint event! His incredible skills driving the PR87-22 made him the only driver at competition to achieve a sub 60 second run, however a cone penalty push this time to 61.5s, ultimately ending up in 3rd place.

However, this still gives us a huge determination to improve our car from last year and be able to achieve an even lower time, especially as Tyler is now the Race team Leader for the 2023 Season Phoenix Racing! We all at Phoenix Racing know Tyler has the potential to lead the team to beat the previous records broken with his knowledge, team leading skills and charisma. 🔥

The statics for the Formula Student competition are one of our main priorities for Phoenix Racing to help us achieve our target of a Top 10 finish this year. Therefore, we have put our faith in our passionate team member Daniel Jones to help us achieve this through the business aspect of the competition.

From the get-go, Daniel showed true commitment and pride to ensure that Phoenix Racing had a strong car in 2022 throughout his 2nd year at Coventry University. As he currently conducts his placement year at the prestigious bike company Royal Enfield, Daniel is still committed to helping Phoenix Racing by volunteering to run the business case department for 2023. With this help, as well as his priorities to get 1st and 2nd year students more involved with Phoenix Racing to build our team numbers, Phoenix Racing should have no problem in achieving our Top 10 target this year.

As a team, we are grateful for the amount of work Daniel puts into the work done by Phoenix Racing and know his contribution will help us to build a fantastic car this year.

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For the acceleration event at Formula Student UK 2022 we achieved a time of 4.162, putting us 2nd thanks to our outstanding 2022 driver Ryan Lewis! Along with driving, Ryan Lewis worked tirelessly as the workshop lead to ensure it was organised and everyone felt included.

Now a graduate, Ryan works at Nissan Motor Corporation UK and we all at Phoenix Racing wish him all the best in the industry he has worked so hard to be in!

This week, the final members of the costing team were selected. Therefore, we can now proudly announce our Costing Lead for 2023, James Miall!

James is one of our master students at Coventry University, currently designing the sidepods for the 2024 Formula Student car. His strong commitment, the amazing attitude he had to the 2022 Formula Student competition, as well as getting us our first ever dynamic event win at competition in 2022, has made him a straightforward choice to help revamp our static event department to give us the boost we desperately need to ensure we have a record breaking year. James will also be acting as the admin for our testing events and the competitions we enter, ensuring that they all run as smooth as possible and layout a plan to keep on track with our plans during the events.

We all at Phoenix Racing have faith in James to make sure that 2023 will be a fantastic year for us.

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Let's start with the big one, our FIRST dynamics event win in our teams history at the Formula Student competition!
Not only was it down to the dedicated students of Phoenix Racing building the PR87-22 that competed, but also our incredible driver James using everything he learnt from participating in the British Universities Karting Championship to get the most out of our car. 🔥

Phoenix Racing is participating in Movember this year, to raise awareness for the three biggest health risks that affect millions of men around the world: Prostate Cancer, Testicular Cancer, and Mental Health.

As Phoenix Racing is ran by the students at Coventry University, we all understand the immense amount of pressure and doubt we all go through to balance our university deadlines with our social lives and health. Therefore, we want to break the stigma and taboo about openly talking about our mental and physical health, especially around men.

Therefore, we have started a fundraiser on the Movember website to reach our goal of £500 by the end of the month to help fund services for mental health and cancer research. Below is the link to our fundraiser, where donations will be massively appreciated!

https://movember.com/t/phoenix-racing?mc=1

I guess this counts as a shameless self-plug?👀 Well the Social Media and Sponsorship Manager for Phoenix Racing has been me, Ish!

Ish is one of the master students at Phoenix Racing, excited and eager to begin another year of building the Formula Student car. Always up for a challenge, as well as wanting to use their hobby of graphic design for a motorsport role, Ish has been in charge of the Social Media presence at Phoenix Racing, completely recreating our platforms to maximise the potential of gaining sponsorship opportunities and allow for the people interested in Formula Student to keep up with the build timeline of the 2023 Formula Student car. Alongside his social media role, he has also been the sponsorship lead, working close with current sponsors such as The Bugatti Trust Museum and Study Centre. Alongside Phoenix Racing, Ish also works as a Junior Race and Performance engineer at Williams Esports, applying his data analysis skills learnt throughout his course in a rapidly emerging motorsport discipline.

Phoenix Racing has no doubt that Ish’s contribution will allow for Phoenix Racing to obtain key sponsors that will allow for us to build a competitive car. 💪

Meet the Unsprung and Design Co-Lead for Phoenix Racing, Oscar Wyman!

Oscar is another of our 3rd year students returning from their industrial placement, working as a Research and Development engineer at Carlisle factory of tire manufacture Pirelli. There he learnt a large understanding of tire manufacturing and composition, as well as understand the demands for tires and what the unsprung system of the vehicle has to withstand in terms of forces. This naturally led him to becoming the race lead for the Unsprung system of the 2023 Formula Student car, ensure that all the CNC components of the unsprung system are manufactured and designed to withstand the significant forces from the tires. Alongside this, he is also Co-Lead for the 2024 design team, ensure that clear communications are replayed between teams and develop a strong 2024 car with the major design change ahead.

We all at Phoenix Racing support Oscar and know he will contribute to producing a fantastic car in 2023 and 2024.

Introducing our IC Hardware Lead, Tom Lovelace!

Tom is one of our returning students from industrial placement as a design engineer for Altra Motion, designing components such as brakes, clutches, and couplings. His dedication to his industrial placement has given him the opportunity to display that dedication to Phoenix Racing leading the IC Hardware department for the race team, ensuring that the final year of our Honda CBR600RR powertrain will be the strongest year yet.

We all at Phoenix Racing know that Tom be a strong asset to our team. 💪

Introducing our IC Software Lead, Liam Sherwood!

Liam loves motorsport, whether it is either 2 or 4 wheels. His stint at the British Universities Karting Championship competition last year representing Coventry University's Karting Team has given him great experience to understand how a driver acts during a race and the mechanics of the car. For 2023, he will expand his skillset to software monitoring for the IC Formula Student car, using LifeRacing to ensure car is operating correctly.

We all at Phoenix Racing hope Liam will excel in his role to ensure that our engine is the strongest it has ever been in its last year of use. 💪

Vehicle Dynamics are the crucial base to any competent race car design; therefore, we have chosen Cavern Taylor to become this year’s Vehicle Dynamics Leader.

Cavern has always loved motorsport, entering esports and developed into building the esports team Elite Tier Racing. With this passion, Cavern has always looked into how to driver faster, looking into data to see where the setup can be improved and corners, he could shave tenths off from. With these key skills, it was only a matter of time before Cavern studied Motorsport Engineering to develop these skills much further and start to implement them to the real world as a Vehicle Dynamics and Data engineer.

We all at Phoenix Racing give our support to Cavern into building a fantastic base car this year to develop setups and extract even more time from our drivers. 💪

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Introducing our two Composites Manufacturing Leads! Alongside Scott, we have Bradley Galley. 🏎

Bradley has also come back from Brick Kiln Composites, focusing his experience in producing Composite Formula One components for Red Bull Racing. These valuable skills, as well as his work relationship he has developed with Scott, has made him the ideal candidate to work with Scott to run the composite laboratory in 2023 and produce high-quality composite components for the 2023 Formula Student car. With this experience, he is also in charge of creating the aero mounts for the 2024 Formula Student car for Phoenix Racing.

We all at Phoenix Racing wish Scott and Brad good luck to producing high quality components for 2023. 💪

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Introducing our two Composites Manufacturing Leads! First we have Scott Johnson. 🏎

Scott has just come back from his placement at Brick Kiln Composites, working to produce components for Formula One teams and mainly focused on working on the manufacturing the composite components for the Aston Martin Valkyrie. Alongside his summer internships at Toro Rosso (now Alpha Tauri) in 2019 and Alpine F1 Team in 2021, Scott has gathered a substanial amount of experience and skills from the industry he wants to work in. Therefore, there was no doubt he would be using the skills he learnt to help produce the composite components for the 2023 Formula Student car for Phoenix Racing.

We all at Phoenix Racing wish Scott and Brad good luck to producing high quality components for 2023. 💪

Introducing our Aerodynamics Lead, Julian Vanbrugh! 🏎

The experience Julian has gained from the 2022 season working long shifts in the composite laboratory in Coventry University's High Performance Engineering Centre has made him the ideal candidate to head the aerodynamics department for 2023. Alongside with returning placement students from Brick Kiln Composites, Julian will supervise over all the aerodynamic components being built, ensuring that our package maximises our potential at competition.

We all at Phoenix Racing wish him luck and hope he delivers an incredible aero package with his team. 💪

Introducing our CHASSIS LEAD, Jasper Prior!

Jasper enjoys motorsport, whether it is driving, being a mechanic or the engineer in the team. With his summer work at West Surrey Racing , involvement in the British Universities Karting Championship with Coventry University Karting, working in the Phoenix Racing Workshop, and designing various components for the IC and conceptual EV Formula Student car, Jasper has developed his skills to understand the demands of a car as an engineer and as a driver. His role as chassis lead will ensure that the chassis for the 2023 Formula Student car is built on schedule and allow us to conduct testing of our 2023 chassis at the end of our second semester.

All of us at Phoenix Racing wish him the best with leading the chassis subgroup to building a fantastic car for 2023. 💪