Team’s
Social Responsibility
It's not all about building a racecar! Since 2014 the team operates under a
new philosophy of resource efficiency. Design and materials are assessed in
order not only to have the best price to performance ratio, but also to be
environmentally friendly. This leads to adoption of “out of the box” thinking
and the creation of highly innovative ideas, using non-conventional
approaches in areas with established technologies and making use of novel
manufacturing methods, which (in our opinion) contributes in developing
excellent critical thinkers and future engineers, while it captures perfectly
the spirit of the FSAE/Formula Student competitions.
Furthermore, we jointly decided as a team to take this new philosophy
undertaking to the next level by establishing an active Social Responsibility
section. We acknowledge our moral obligation to act for the benefit of
society at large. So far in the context of the Formula Student Series the
aforementioned responsibility was passive and had the form of educating
students into avoiding engaging in socially harmful acts. From now on we are
determined to commit to the target of maintaining a balance between
motorsport and the ecosystem more actively, through recycling in multiple
levels (from scrap metal to depleted battery cells), road safety campaigns
and by organizing educational school visits to educate young generations in
engineering science under a sustainable and responsible view of
motorsports.
UoP Racing Team at 7th P.I.CK
As every year since the very beginning of it, our team attended the 7th P.I.C.K
(Patras International Circuit for Karting). The event marked the first public
presentation of the newest member of our racing family, UoP5e! UoP4e was
also present alongside, attracting a lot of attention as well. The team had the
chance to do a few demonstration laps with UoP4e. This year we also had
the chance to welcome the Centaurus Racing Team, a fellow Greek FSAE team
from University of Thessaly, and exchange opinions. The pleasant fact was
that the response of the people to our team is growing rapidly year by year,
receiving excellent comments and giving us reason to keep evolving!
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