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After not having been around this forum a lot for some time as things where quite busy, I just read the latest posts of this thread.

It's kind of hard to find words after reading this. As someone...

Thank you once more for the very interesting insights in your active time. For me it is quite interesting to see that most things you mention, I pretty much experienced the same way in my active...

It's true that at most competitions design judges don't like comparisons between the old and the new car (at least in the design report).

But still it does not make sense start with specific goals...

I'd say this is a bit like the discussion in the "Teams from India" thread about setting goals.
I've often discussed this with teams. All the time you hear stuff like "We wanted to save weight" "Our...

I'd like to add some new point to this document due to some impressions from FS Austria last week.

Something a team should seriously think about is how it wants to present itself during a...

Hi Dunk,

I'm not sure if the clock in/out device is the ideal way to go for you (for the reasons you mentioned yourself).
Here we can use our shop 24/7 but the CAD pool where we design together...

Well to answer your question Sharath: I'm not an active team member anymore, but the the team already gave two concept presentations to us alumni. Something very useful.
Major concepts are chosen...

Once more thank you Geoff for your thoughts. I couldn't agree more.

Yeah, our first year car in action!!!

In general I'd say, you understood how a team has to be organised. A lot of the principles you mentioned are the basis of our team organisation too.

The...

To my experience FSAE teams usually are very far from over organising their teams.

That's exactly the point about which people tend to argue. Everybody just wants to design and build a car. That...

Another thread here about newbies with stupid ideas brought the idea to me to bring the topic of team management into this post.

People tend to claim that other teams are more succesfull then them...

If you have the possibility design as much time as possible together in one room. Here at Stuttgart we have the great opportunity to use a CAD-Pool with enough computers to allow everyone design at...

100% agreed. This is were you must find the right compromise. Of course you have to try to improve your design from year to year (at least that is the intent of the whole competition).
But to do...

The old driver discussion...

In my opinion it's just one more aspect of the challenge in FSAE. If you want to be competitive at comp you will definitely need a good driver. So at some point during...

You wouldn't believe how much people in our team speculate what others are doing, how much money others have etc. And to believe every dumb rumor about every team.
I always tell them, they shouldn't...

Hey Geoff,

Great thoughts you are publishing here. I'd say that everybody who's new in FSAE should read this.

If I just think back to the 08 season. Most people were wondering why we were...