'The engineers' farmhouse': the BCN eMotorsport team that will compete in Formula Student 2025 with Fractus technology

The students of the BCN eMotorsport team, which is participating in the Formula Student competition for another year this summer, presented the CAT17x single-seater in May, sponsored by Fractus, within the framework of the Fractus-UPC Deep Tech Hub. Fractus has also collaborated with the team by advising them and providing material for improving the telemetry system. The objectives have focused on achieving high reliability with the lowest possible latency and implementing 5G connectivity in the system, since this is an electric and autonomous vehicle.

In the article in El Periódico dedicated to this team, it compares this student team to Barça's Masia: "La Masia is the factory of football stars and is perhaps the simplest analogy to understand what they do in the BCNeMotorsport project of the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering (ETSEIB) and the Escola de Telecommunications de Barcelona (ETSETB). They are like La Masia of Formula 1 engineers. Every year, and for 15 years, they form a team of students from various disciplines to design, build and compete with a single-seater in the Formula Student university category". The article explains that the Catalan team is made up of students who will form the front line of motorsport tomorrow, and among themselves they are organized like a real competition team. Under the guidance of Team Leader Albert del Río, the 44 students and three collaborators participating this year organize teams with specific tasks within the project dedicated to specific aspects such as aerodynamics, chassis, dynamics or electronics of the single-seater. The project, which is valued at 500,000 euros for the financial support, services and parts they receive from their sponsors, seeks to have the students develop a Formula 1-style single-seater with the advice of the teaching staff and sponsors.