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The Hanze Racing Division is a team of international students located in Groningen and participating in the Formula Student global competition. Together, we design and build an electric race car from scratch, and race it against others during yearly events. Ambition, passion and dedication are what drives us on a daily basis, allowing us to consistently push our limits to achieve our goals. Learn more or Join Us!
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT
The Mechanical Engineering department builds the skeleton of our race car by doing the heavy lifting for the rest of the team.
Designing new parts, producing them and bringing them together is what the mechanical engineering department does on a daily basis. By working together and in close relationship with HARD’s partners, members are able to build a car that will take HARD to the Formula Student competition.
“In a normal environment at school you get to work with 15 components, here you can work with at least a thousand!”
Examples of projects include but are not limited to developing the suspension system and building and testing the drivetrain.
eLECTRICAL DEPARTMENT
The Electrical Engineering department is responsible for powering every aspect of the car.
By designing electrical circuits and components and producing them, our electrical engineers ensure the car will be able to drive properly using its battery as power source. From wiring to programming, the job joins every aspects of associated studies, and presents challenges going far beyond academic expectations, preparing members for situations they will encounter later during their career. Examples of projects include building the car’s battery in collaboration with the mechanical team, developing the precharge measurement systems and the conception of a suitable wire harness.
DRIVERLESS DEPARTMENT
Driverless department is making an autonomous driving car!
The driverless department of HARD consists of some passionate programmers, mathematicians and computer engineers. We are working towards software to not only drive the HARD race car, but also make the car recognize and map circuits.
Together with a RC car and an electric kart, on which we can test our software, we are making progress to make our future car fully autonomous!
Formula Student offers an additional Driverless Cup in which we can compete against other teams. Projects we are working on includes; computer vision, SLAM and reinforcement learning.
cOMMUNiCATION DEPARTMENT
The Communication Department links HARD to the rest of the world.
By creating regular content and keeping in touch with sponsors, the communication department is crucial to the team as it ensures that both our partners and our team members are aware of the progress made on the car. Not only do we provide our followers an insight into the team and into how the car is made, we also make the whole building process a uniquely gratifying experience for our members by organizing events that create strong bonds between members over the years. Whatever we do, creativity and freedom are amongst our core values, and we try to make as many ideas as possible a reality, so never hesitate to ask!
With competitions being held all around the world, Formula Student is one of the most prestigious motorsport design competition for students. While each race allows teams and sponsors to come together and share both knowledge and experience, the journey leading to the event is one of challenges and set-backs that guarantee the competence of tomorrow’s finest engineers. Learn more.
Rollout HRD-06
After many months of hard work the team is proud to announce the rollout of our new car: the HRD06! The rollout will take place at the Energy Barn (Zernikelaan 17) on Friday the 21th. This is an opportunity to show off the fruits of our labor to the world. The event will take place from 17:30 to 19:30. Do not forget to sign up here. We hope to see you there!
Roll Out HRD05
Previous Next After months of preparation, last Friday (June 9th) the HRD-05 was finally ready for its roll-out. In the Gerardus de San conference hall at the Zernike Campus all supporters, sponsors, family and friends were invited to have a first look at the new fully electric car made by Hanze Racing Division. After taking the cover off, the leads of our three engineering division gave the attendees some insights into the building process and the choices the technicians made to get the car where it is today and what the plans will be for the future. Missed the presentation? You can watch it back here With the roll-out done, there are only a few weeks left before we will be racing at Formula Students Netherlands. Watch us at the TT circuit in Assen from July 9th to 13th!
Kick-off Alumni Association HARD
Previous Next 10 years of designing, engineering and producing race cars, means 10 years of experienced alumni that were once part of the Hanze Racing Division. This is the reason why in 2020 the Alumni Association of HARD was founded. With a slow start because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the alumni association was on hold, until now! With a kick-off event on the 17th of March 2023, the alumni association of HARD is now fully back in business. Together with old team members, the current team and sponsors memories were brought up. The evening started with an interactive game to relive old memories such as seeing the sun rise at the workshop after a full night of work! The guilty people raised their green paper, allowing the crowd to see who shared these memories and the ones that did not, their red paper. Moving on to the first design presentation of the evening, Egbert Joostens, chairman of the Alumni Association of HARD, presented the intent of the now active association and its plans for the future. The aim of the association is to establish and maintain contacts between everyone who has been involved with HARD. This all for personal recreation and to help out the current team with their own development and the producing the next generations of race cars! For the members of the alumni association, it is exciting and essential to know what the current team is up to, which is why the leads of the engineering departments gave a Design Presentation of the current car, the HRD05-2. Bas van Kranenburg started off with the mechanical engineering side of the car, something that was easier to understand for most of the crowd than the electrical engineering side that was presented by Tobias Harryvan. Since the HRD05-2 is the first electrical race car built by HARD, the designs of the first electrical systems that are going to be produced by HARD were shown and explained. Michal Tesnar, lead of the driverless engineering department, took the attendees to another new aspect of the team and explained the thoughts and initial designs of an autonomous race car, which is laying in the near future of HARD! With the HRD05-2 being electric, there is an opportunity to compete in the Formula Student competition with additional driverless software in order to drive autonomously on track! Damien Dufour, chairman of HARD, stepped away from the engineering side and gave an update on the current team status and the organisation of the communication and acquisition departments of the team. Herewith, the design presentation of the team 2022-2023 and the HRD05-2 came to an end. Laughter, drinks and memories we shared as people mingled and reminisced of their times at HARD.