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The 2026 car side-on in front of University College, Western University

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Vehicle

Vehicle is the team's whole-car group: it links competition points targets to lap-time simulation and sets the performance targets each subsystem designs to.

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Wheelbase
1550mm
CG height
270 mm design

Vehicle

Features

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    2025-26 season

    4th in the EV class at Formula Hybrid + Electric 2026, first time completing the 44 km endurance, earliest driving car in WFR history.

Changing for 2027

Points target for WFR-27E, event by event
Mass budget for every subsystem
New concept built around 10-inch wheels
Slip-based launch control as a capstone project
The 2026 car from the rear three-quarter: main hoop, rear frame and rear wing

In the making

The 2026 car from above on the pit lane at Formula SAE Michigan

How it works

The VEHICLE folder holds the team's top-down design method: competition placement becomes a points target, points become the performance needed in each event, and that performance becomes targets for each subsystem, with margin set by risk.

The work uses OptimumLap models swept against mass, power and drive ratio, with tyre test data, and a configuration and data management structure so every subsystem designs the same car.

At the vehicle level WFR26-E went onto Multimatic's four-post rig and into Ford's DTF Wind Tunnel, and at Formula Hybrid + Electric 2026 it finished 4th in the EV class and completed the 44 km endurance for the first time.

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WFR26E, car 105, side-on on a stone plaza in front of stone steps, a team member standing behind it

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