FORMULA BHARAT
Formula Bharat, an engineering design competition, pits students from colleges and institutions around the nation against one another in a life-size formula-style car in categories such engineering design, overall cost, marketability, and dynamic performance. The series mimics the international student Formula series, which is held annually in about 11 different nations.
This competition's goal is to motivate students to get real-world experience while utilizing classroom-taught engineering principles. The art of administration and teamwork, which are crucial abilities necessary in the "real world," are also taught to pupils. Every year, these student teams are expected to start from scratch on a brand-new car and raise money for it through sponsorship and donations. The task for the student team is to create a prototype vehicle that best satisfies the objectives listed in the Rules Book. A jury of professionals from the motorsport, automotive, and supplier industries evaluates each team's design, cost, and business strategy over the course of a five-day competition to determine the best team and vehicle. The team's on-track performance scores will also show how well they hold up in real-world situations.
STATIC EVENTS
Engineering Design Event
(100 Points)
The idea behind the design event is to judge the student's engineering approach and work that went into designing a vehicle, fulfilling the competition's objectives. Teams must submit a design requirements sheet and an engineering design report for review in advance of the competition. Vehicles must be submitted at the competition in finished, fully built, finished, and race-ready form for design judging. When a vehicle is displayed at the design competition in what the judges deem to be an unfinished state, they will not examine it and will give the entire design competition no points.
Cost and Manufacturing Event
(100 Points)
The goal of the cost and manufacturing event is to gauge how well the team comprehends the manufacturing procedures and expenses involved in putting together a prototype race car. This includes weighing the trade-offs between content and cost, deciding whether to produce or buy, and comprehending the distinctions between mass production and prototype. Teams must submit a Cost Report with a thorough Bill of Materials and supporting materials before the competition. Vehicles must be brought at the competition in finished condition, fully constructed, finished, ready to race, and with its dry tyres mounted for cost and manufacturing judging. Any car displayed at the cost and manufacturing event that the judges deem to be incomplete will not be evaluated.
Business Event
(75 Points)
The goal of the BPP is to assess the team's capacity to create and present a thorough business model that shows how their product—a prototype race car—could result in a lucrative business opportunity. The judges ought to be treated as possible partners or investors for the proposed business model. The specific prototype race car entered in the competition must be mentioned in the business plan. The BPP judgement will not take into account the quality of the actual prototype. An executive summary must be submitted before to the competition in order to persuade potential investors or partners that the team's presentation is worthwhile of their time. The team's business plan should be briefly described in the executive summary.
DYNAMIC EVENTS
Skid Pad Event
(75 Points)
A figure-eight layout of two pairs of concentric circles makes up the skidpad course. Each team has two drivers who each have two runs, for a total of four runs. After their initial run, each driver has the opportunity to make a second one.
Acceleration Event
(75 Points)
The acceleration course is a 75 m long straight line that connects the starting and finishing points. Each team has two drivers who each have two runs, for a total of four runs. After their initial run, each driver has the opportunity to make a second one.
Autocross Event
(100 Points)
The layout of the autocross circuit is designed as a handling course with straightaways, continuous curves, hairpins, slaloms, chicanes, etc. Less than 1.5 kilometres make up the autocross track. Up to four runs—two drivers, each driving two—can be completed by each team. After their initial run, each driver has the opportunity to make a second one.
Endurance Event
(325 Points)
The closed lap endurance track is constructed similarly to an autocross course. The endurance track's laps are roughly one kilometre long. The whole distance of the endurance is about 22 kilometres. For the endurance competition, there is just one run. The time at which the autocross event is completed determines the starting order for the endurance competition. At the halfway point of the run, a driver change must be completed within a three-minute window. After 11 kilometres, the first driver will be directed into the driver swap area. Three minutes are allotted to each team to switch drivers. The additional time is added to the total duration if the driver change takes more than three minutes. The second driver will take the wheel after the first driver switches, and after covering an additional 11 kilometres, he or she will be given the all-clear to leave the course. There could be several vehicles on the endurance track at once. Only in the specified passing zones and under the supervision of the track marshals is overtaking permitted. Racing from wheel to wheel is not allowed.
Efficiency Event
(100 Points)
The endurance energy is determined as the product of the measured voltage's time-integrated value and the measured current's recorded value from the energy metre (data logger). The energy that has been utilised is multiplied by 0.9 and then removed. Only vehicles that place in the endurance competition will receive efficiency points. Teams who surpass Tmax in terms of corrected elapsed endurance time lose all efficiency points.