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UCLR is comprised of six different racing teams, all of which our students can join and learn new technical skills. Find out more about the different racing teams below.
Read more about each UCL Racing team:
UCLR Eco-Marathon team
The UCL Eco-Marathon racing team aims to push for the most fuel-efficient vehicle design using sound engineering principles and effective communication. Five crucial roles in our team are mechanical design, electronics, aerodynamics, race strategy and simulation.
Our ultimate mission is to break the world record by crafting a vehicle capable of achieving 6500 km/l in fuel efficiency. The main event of the year is the Shell Eco-marathon, an international student engineering competition that beckons students to design, manufacture, and pilot some of the world's most fuel-efficient vehicles.
UCLR Formula Student team
Formula Student is an international competition, created for students from various engineering backgrounds to design and build the fastest single-seater car.
Formula Student is an incredible engineering project, bringing together many aspects of engineering from design to manufacturing, to operational management and performance simulation. Formula Student operates out of UCL's MechSpace facilities where we design and manufacture our own parts to compete at the highest level of international student motorsport.
UCLR Mars Rover team
The UCL Rover project is an interdisciplinary challenge aiming to build a Mars Rover much like Curiosity or Perseverance and compete with it at the European Rover Challenge. Autonomous navigation capabilities combined with a robust rocker-bogie suspension (6 wheels, 4-wheel-drive system) allow the Rover to traverse the hazardous Martian terrain without human intervention. Robotics expertise and core mechanical engineering design principles are incorporated into a six-degree-of-freedom robotic arm capable of servicing equipment and lifting objects. The Rover is also equipped with a science cache, enabling it to collect Martian soil samples to test for the presence of life.
UCLR UAS Team Nova
UAS Team Nova is the student-led UCL drone team. We are an enthusiastic entity where we dedicate our time and effort to build and programme drones from scratch which will compete in the IMechE UAS Challenge annually. Currently, we are a team of fifteen students with four subsidiary teams which are aerodynamics, chassis, propulsion, and control.
UCLR Rocket team
At UCL Rocket, we design, develop, build and launch rockets to compete on the global stage whilst working towards our ultimate ambition of venturing into space! We are one of the youngest of the UCLR teams, but this has not stopped us from achieving brilliant results: winning the UK National Rocketry Championship and achieving 10th internationally at the Spaceport America Cup. We are focusing on developing and building our own liquid propellant engine, which will be used to compete in the European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal and will be a vital step towards space!
UCLR Human-Powered Submarine team
The newest UCLR team, we are the UCLR Human-Powered Submarine Team, a dynamic group of aspiring engineers, innovators, and ocean enthusiasts, passionately committed to the thrilling world of human-powered submarine design and racing.
Our journey revolves around the prestigious European International Submarine Race (eISR), a biennial event that unites student teams from around the globe in an exhilarating showcase of engineering excellence and athletic prowess!
