About Us
Formula Student Team Napier is a student-run team at Edinburgh Napier Uni.
As a team, we come together to create a vehicle/autonomous software that competes in IMechE's Formula Student competition.
We are Formula Student Team Napier (FSTN), a team of dedicated students working to compete in the IMechE Formula Student competitions from 2023 onwards.
What is Formula Student?
Formula Student (or FSAE) is the world's largest student engineering competition, with over 600 universities participating. Each year, teams are challenged to design and build a single-seater race car, and then come together to compete in a series of static and dynamic events. As a Scottish team, we compete at Silverstone, the home of British Motorsport.
In the UK, the event is organised by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and held at the world-famous Silverstone circuit with over 100 teams attending. This year, we are competing in 2 main classes: FS & FS-AI.
- FS is the ‘standard’ class, where teams build a small Formula-style car.
- FS-AI has teams develop autonomous driving systems for a driverless car.
However, we also how our amazing sim racing team, who compete in the Formula Student competition held in the Williams garage in Oxfordshire, with other virtual events throughout the year.
About Us
Our team was founded in December 2021, and since then we have been hard at work developing an internal combustion (IC) car, which we will compete with at Silverstone in July. This is a part of our ongoing two year plan, started in 2023, with our first year being competed in concept class in FS24, and moving to FS class for FS25.
Additionally, we are developing autonomous driving software in order to compete in the FS-AI events. The software will be implemented on a car that IMechE provides. In 2023, our AI team achieved 4th place overall as a rookie entry, and with returning to a more heated competition this year in FS24, we were successful yet again and achieved 5th place!
The team currently consists of 30+ students, who are spread across many different departments in the team: Technical, Driverless, Finance, Operations, Business, and PR & Marketing.
Why should I join?
- Meet like-minded students
- Work on a really cool project in a professional team environment
- Try new things, and learn what you like (and dislike!) doing in a supportive, friendly environment
- Kick-start your career!
How can I join?
Everyone who is interested in joining the team must complete an interest form, which you can find on our website here. Don't worry though! We are happy to take on individuals with no experience and help you gain the skills and knowledge you need to carry yourself forward within the team.
We are mostly contactable on our Discord, please join and chat with us.
Note that applications may be closed outside of our main recruitment period – this will be clearly stated on our website. Please feel free to contact us via email if you have any questions. Thanks!
Once you have filled in our interest form and spoken with us you are free to purchase a membership!