The Poli Racing team uses Stratasys 3D printing and will compete in Formula SAE Brazil

Created in 2008 by students from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, the Poli Racing team uses Stratasys 3D printing technology to manufacture parts for its vehicle. Until now, two tubes have been produced that direct the air towards the front of the prototype, to cool the front brake discs.

According to Pedro Takeuti Veiga de Castro, director of marketing, additive manufacturing has the advantage of combining more complex shapes with faster manufacturing, which allows the design of lighter parts suitable for prototyping.

“Without 3D printing, the tubes would have to be manufactured by molding and laminating with fiberglass, whose production time would take one or two weeks, as opposed to 3D printing, which can do it in a single day.”

The parts are printed on a 3D Stratasys F170 on ASA filament, and will be used in the 2019 FP-11 prototype, which in November will compete in the Formula SAE Brazil stage in Piracicaba.

The international competition is a test in which engineering students create, design, build and drive a racing car. The event that was created by the Society of Automobile Engineers (SAE) emerged in the United States more than 40 years ago. In Brazil, the first edition was held in 2004, under the name Formula SAE Brasil.