For the past three years, UWR has taken a top three position in the national F3 Cup Driver’s Championship.
As the only university competing in the MSVR F3 Cup, UWR is taking part in all 18 rounds of the competition at world famous tracks including Brands Hatch, home of the British Grand Prix, Silverstone, and Donington Park.
An investment of £10 million in the university’s engineering facilities at its Telford Innovation Campus in Priorslee has created world-class education facilities for engineering students including industry standard design, development and testing facilities. Students from across the School of Engineering and the wider university test, prepare and race the cars, learning all the skills required to be part of the highly competitive world of motorsport.
UWR takes part in the F3 Cup Championship, the IMechE Formula Student competition, the British Hillclimb Championship (driven by University of Wolverhampton Honorary Graduate, Graham Wynn OBE) and also race three Morgan development cars in the AR Morgan Challenge on behalf of the Morgan Motor Company.
Dr Syed Hasan, head of the School of Engineering said: “The significant investment we have made in engineering on the campus has provided us with facilities which are amongst the best in the country combined with a really attractive course offering for students who want to study engineering.
“With a competitive motor racing team and committed sponsors, our students have a real hands-on engineering experience which meets the needs of future employers. On behalf of UWR, we thank our sponsors for their contributions which make our success possible.”
The first race event of the F3 Cup season took place from 6-7 April at Donington Park National.
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