| Team Name | : | Queen’s Formula Racing |
| University | : | Queen’s University Belfast |
| Class | : | Class 1 |
| Car Number | : | 80 |
| Country | : | UK |
Queen’s Formula Racing (QFR) are competing with a team comprising of final and penultimate year mechanical engineering students at Queen’s University Belfast.
The 2016 car has benefited from a number of student research projects, focussed on improving the car in key areas. This has resulted in new design concepts in the chassis, uprights and suspension.
A major change is the introduction of 10″ wheels. This has required the team to entirely redesign the car’s unsprung mass from previous years. The team have also introduced a heavily revised suspension system. QFR continue to utilise carbon fibre to create a lightweight front monocoque, coupled to a tubular steel space frame rear chassis. The heart of the car is a tuned Yamaha R6 engine.
QFR look forward to taking to the track at Silverstone, and would like to thank our supervisors, university staff and sponsors for their continued support of this project. Our sponsors include Bombardier, Easy Composites, Kirkistown, Aurora, NBC Bearings, Avon and Easy start Ireland.
| Length, width, height, wheelbase | 2775mm 1360mm 1420mm 1670mm |
| Track (front/rear)1200mm/1100mm | 1240mm/1200mm |
| Weight of car (no driver) | 215kg |
| Weight distribution including 68kg driver (front/rear) | 140/148 |
| Suspension (front/rear) | Double unequal length A-Arm. Push rod actuated horizontally oriented spring and damper front and rear |
| Tyres (front/rear) | 7.0/16.0-10 Avon |
| Wheels (front/rear) | 6.5″ wide, 1 pc Braid Sturace 10 |
| Brakes (front/rear) | Stainless Steel, hub mounted, 180mm dia, drilled |
| Chassis construction | Carbon fibre monocoque, tubular spaceframe rear chassis |
| Engine (Electric motor for alternatively fuelled vehicles) | 2003 Yamaha YZF-R6 four stroke in line four |
| Bore/stroke/cylinders/cc (Electric motor spec for alternatively fuelled vehicles) | 65.4mm 44.5mm 4 600cc |
| Fuel type (Type of Energy Storage for alternatively fuelled vehicles) | 99 RON Unleaded |
| Fuel system (Accumulator Spec for alternatively fuelled vehicles) | Custom multi point fuel injection system |
| Max power/max torque | 63kW @ 11,500 56NM @ 8,500rpm |
| Transmission | Chain drive |
| Differential | Drexler Limited slip differential |
| Final drive | 3.8:1 |
