'The newest, fastest and most technologically advanced Formula One (F1) racing car built by students from University of New South Wales (UNSW) Redback Racing Team has now successfully completed all testing and trials at Sydney's Bankstown Paceway harness racing track in the lead up to next week's Grand Prix in Melbourne (6 to 9 December 2018),' Bankstown Paceway committeeman Andew Ho has announced.
Mr Ho last night (Monday, November 26th, 2018) launched the new top secret design together with UNSW students at a gala function at the university's Kensington Campus.
'From racing standardbred "Trots" horses to trialling the latest in F1 racing, Bankstown Paceway is elated to welcome UNSW students from all disciplines at their university who come together to form the UNSWRedback Racing team,' Mr Ho told Harnesslink.
'Originally established in 1999, the university based team designs, constructs and racse small open wheeled race cars and competes against all major Australian and international universities at the annual Formula SAE-Australasia competition, run by the Society of Automotive Engineers, Australasia,' Mr Ho said.
'Formula SAE-A is an exciting international education program where university students design, build and compete in small open wheeled vehicles. Formula SAE graduates worldwide are considered to be among the most work-ready graduates emerging from the university system,' he said.
'In delivering a fully functioning vehicle, the student teams undertake a full, real-world product development project. They design, build and test their vehicles, but they also must also attend to the non-technical aspects of a project such as fund-raising, marketing and managing a team of people. Each team effectively works as a small start-up business, and it is this experience that makes Formula SAE graduates stand apart from their peers.
'The Formula SAE Australasian competition was introduced in 2000, and attracts entries from Australia, New Zealand and across Asia. Australasian teams have established themselves quickly as world-class competitors by taking outright victories in major US and European competitions.
'Bankstown Paceway wishes the UNSW Redback Racing team every success in December's Grand Prix competition in Melbourne,' Mr Ho added.
Megan J. Lavender