aluNID® has come to an agreement with UC3M Formula Student team (Carlos III Madrid) to become one of its sponsors for Formula Student Europe 2017.

Formula student® is a worldwide competition born in the USA by Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) there, each team design and manufacture a car that must be exposed to a high technical expert’s jury.

The main reason of this competition is to promote investigation through enginery students, to show off their creativity and knowledge, designing a trustful and competitive prototype. Each year many universities decide to participate in Formula Student, defending their design and going into competition with other teams in well-known circuits such as Silverstone (UK), Hockenheim (Germany) and Montmeló (Spain).

UC3M Formula team will be this year in two competitions: Formula Student Spain, in Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit y Formula Student Germany, celebrated Hockenheimring circuit. The last one has become a truly exhibition of engineering knowledge and a reference in the university world in a high level.

aluNID® has design an expanded honeycomb core that will be used aa impact attenuator and that will be placed in the front of the vehicle.