1975 to 2027
Fifty-one years, one car at a time.
The team came together in 1975 and put its first car on a grid in 1988. Every plinth in this room is a season somebody started from a blank sheet.
1975
The team comes together
Team comes together for the first time. Thirteen years of building before a car would race.
1988
First car on a grid
The team's first competing vehicle: an open red tube frame, road tyres on silver wheels and a white side panel. Everything that was needed and nothing that was not.
1997
Full bodywork, ahead of its time
The first car with complete bodywork: a moulded nose and cockpit surround over the frame, with the engine still open to the air behind the driver.
2010
The frame that argued for carbon
A 70 lb steel space frame at 800 lb·ft/deg. The team benchmarked it, wrote the monocoque study, and took the carbon route five years later.
ChassisSteel space frame, 70 lbsTorsional rigidity800 lb·ft/deg2013
William R. Adam Engineering Award
Recognised for innovation with the William R. Adam Engineering Award.
2015
The first carbon chassis
The first carbon fibre chassis in team history, and the car the team took to Formula Student Germany.
2018
The last combustion car
Powered, like every car before it, by a Honda CBR600 F4i. First place in the Business Logic Case at FSAE Michigan, against more than a hundred teams.
2019
The team goes electric
The first electric car in team history, and the first full carbon monocoque. Best overall design at Formula North; the eighth team ever to race an EV endurance in a rookie electric year.
Monocoque28 kg CFRP-foamAccumulator665 × LG HG2 186502020
The lightest chassis in team history
A 25 kg monocoque cured in a single cycle, in a 201 kg car. Then the season was cut short.
Total mass201 kgMonocoque25 kg, single cure2022
A wheel that weighs 1.7 kg
Monolithic carbon wheels in service after five years of development: 1.7 kg each, replacing a 3.75 kg commercial three-piece.
Wheel13" monolithic CFRPMass1.7 kg, from 3.752024
Endurance, completed
Built for reliability and the endurance event, and it delivered the team's first EV endurance finish: top 20 of 75 at FSAE Michigan and a third-place Efficiency Award.
Weight490 lbs2025
A near-total redesign
New aero package, new monocoque, new track width and single-piece carbon wheels, plus a new custom battery management system made in-house. Car No. 209 at Formula Hybrid + Electric, No. 225 at FSAE Michigan.
Pack420 V · 7.56 kWhDesign mass221.9 kg2026
Fourth in the EV class
Fourth place in the Electric Vehicle class at Formula Hybrid + Electric 2026. The first 44 km endurance run, and the earliest driving car in team history.
2027
WFR-27E: in build now
New suspension, new pack architecture, new monocoque. The car the team is building as you read this.
MotorEmrax 228 MVPack546 VExplore the car
