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ZF Race Camp

On June 1st and 2nd, 2017, the ZF Race Camp took place for the tenth time – the final test for the new "Formula Student" season. On board: around 700 students and 32 racing cars.

The topic of driverless cars was the focus of this year's ZF Race Camp for the first time. According to the motto "Transforming Transport – The vision of intelligent mobility" the participants of the ZF Race Camp Talk discussed with Stefan Pabst, philosopher and physicist at the Zurich Think Tank for Economics, Science and Society W.I.R.E. A total of 24 racing teams from Germany, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Italy registered for the ZF Race Camp. The test run before the Formula Student design competition at Hockenheimring. They started with 32 vehicles – every second thereof are electric bolides and for the first time also six driverless cars.

ZF Racecamp

A total of 700 students were on the trade fair grounds. In addition, more than 60 ZF-engineers and experts from different technical departments from all over Germany have given advice and supported the teams. But not only the students benefit from the event. Formula Student makes it possible for a technological leader like ZF to connect the topics of engineering education and motorsports in practice. “Progressive digitization and autonomous driving as forward-looking megatrend are driving the upheaval in the global automotive industry“, said ZF Chief Human Resources Officer Jürgen Holeksa. "We at ZF are actively shaping this change – not only through our broad product portfolio, but also by actively supporting these new mobility solutions.”

fascination: man and machine

Things are getting serious in Hockenheim

The teams sponsored by ZF from universities across Germany can prepare during the ZF Race Camp for the Formula Student Germany competition which takes place every year in the beginning of august at the Hockenheimring. “The Race Camp has become an institution that is second to none in the Formula Student competition,” says Jürgen Holeksa, member of the Board of Management of ZF and responsible for Human Resources. “The positive response of the students spurs us on every year anew to support their participation in Formula Student Germany in this way.

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