During this season, for the first time, the E-team built an electric car in the shadow of the Leaning Tower. To support this change, the powertrain and electronic sectors joined forces, working together to both perfect the various aspects of the engine and install and monitor all the vehicle’s electronic and electrical devices. To enable the transition to an electric car, the rear chassis of the single-seater had to be modified so that the new powertrain and battery pack could be attached.

During the season that has just ended, we realized two prototypes: Kinzika and KerubEVO.

The first one is a Combustion Vehicle characterized by a hybrid chassis with carbon fiber front monocoque, rear steel trellis, and equipped with an 84 HP Honda CBR 600 RR engine. The second one is the evolution of the Driverless car that has accompanied the Team since 2015.
The 2022 season saw the E-team compete in Formula SAE Italy, held at home in Varano de’ Melegari, in FS East at the Hungaroring F1 circuit, and in FS Spain (Parcmotor Castellolì).
Thanks to excellent teamwork, the E-Team has won various awards in the Business Plan DV, Cost Report CV, and Best Design DV fields, as well as the Erre Prize “Know-how, agility and problem solving”.

In 2021, for the first time, the team brought in two cars, the Galileo and the Kerubless, respectively combustion car with driver and driverless car. It was a difficult season given the grandeur of the challenge to create a driverless car from scratch, but with great efforts of the whole team was able to get the first place of Cost Report event in Germany (FSG2021) and first place of Cost Report event and Design Event in Italy (FSATA2021).

The year of the pandemic prevented the races. However, this did not stop the team, which continued its projects that, unfortunately, will only see the light of day in the following season.

2019 was a successful year for the team and the new prototype, Kerublast. E-team took part in three competitions this time, FSAE Italy at Riccardo Paletti Racetrack, FS Germany at Hockenheim, and FS Czech Republic at Autodrom Most. In Germany, the team won first place in the Business Plan and Cost event, fifth place in the acceleration test, and finished fifteenth overall. In all three events, Kerublast finished all the endurance tests without disqualifications.

The team, in 2018 presented Kerub H who took part in two competitions, FSAE Italy at Riccardo Paletti Racetrack in Varano de’ Melegari and FS Germany, at Hockenheim racetrack. In FSAE Italy, the E-team took second place in the Cost event category, and in Germany, Kerub H completed the endurance test but with a disqualification this time.

Season 2017 began with a lot of job interviews at the Engineering Faculty at the University of Pisa. After an opening period of organization, the Team had the chance to participate in the Motor Show that took place in Bologna, Italy, with other Italian teams. 2016 ended with the confirmation of attendance at the future FSAE Italy competition that will take place in Varano de’ Melegari at the Riccardo Paletti Racetrack from the 19th to the 23rd of July 2017. After hard work and tests, the E-Team Racing Team successfully joined the list of the 65 teams, globally, that will participate at the FSGermany 2017 which will take place in Hockenheim from the 8th to the 13th of August 2017.

E-Team Squadra Corse took part in the Formula SAE Italian Event (22-25 July 2016) and in the Formula Student Hungary Event (18-21 July 2016).

The 2015 session began with an increase in its members. Later was redesigned the organization dividing members into two areas: technical and management. The team assumed a company structure which soon brought its results. A new car, called Kerub, was designed in a few months, but for several reasons, the team was not able to finish its development. This is the reason why the E-Team participated only in the Formula SAE Italy competition Static Events (class 3). During this event held in Varano de’ Melegari in September 2015 the team won first place in Class 3: first place in Design Event, Business Plan, and Cost Event. Three out of three.

During the 2014 session the team planned to complete the development of the electric car E2T1 and to improve the ET5-xl to prevent a recurrence of the problem that forced to stop the race in the Czech Republic. The E2T1 project was realized in a year but, due to the lack of necessary funds to pay the entire cost of the car, the team decided to participate only with the project at the competition. The E-Team participated both in class 1 (combustion with ET5-xl) and in class 3 (electric with the E2T1 project) during the Formula SAE Italy competition held in Varano de’ Melegari.

The 2013 session had started with a hard decision: not getting any tangible result from Academia, and with the officiality of the project in jeopardy, the alternatives were either: to keep hoping or close the Team. Fortunately, with the intervention of a second Faculty advisor the progress towards the recognition of the Team member’s participation in terms of credit and with official funding from the Departments gets back in route. The decision to save the project was made quite late in the year, so the only chance remained was to participate in the brand new Formula Student Czech Republic competition in Hradec Kralove. The new ET5-xl car, modified to be compliant with the new rule set, is prepared to unleash its true potential and extensively tested. The competition sees once again an exceptional third place in the Business Plan Presentation, but unfortunately, another share of bad luck is around the corner, and the car, after having behaved very well in the previous events, is forced to stop after a bad debonding failure of a suspension A-arm.

In 2012, the team faced a reduction in its members for the very first time, as the management tried to make a big step on the way to an official academic and structural recognition of the project. Not satisfied with the results from the previous year, the designers adopted a best-performance strategy on the design, which is focused on a complete rebuild of the cockpit, for improved ergonomics, keeping the optimal layout and dynamics target from ET4. The ET5 comes out as a similar, with a different concept, and is extensively tested. The Team participates in the usual events, with good results progress in Formula Student Germany until a hard stop for a very much argued disqualification during the driver change midway through the Endurance event; in Formula SAE Italy, a great result is obtained for the first time in the Business Plan Presentation, even though the overall score is threatened by another bitter disqualification in the Endurance event, a couple laps from its completion, with a very competitive car which was even getting better one lap after the other.

In 2011, the partially renewed team took inspiration from the previous year’s work to develop the ET4, a brand new car built as an overall improvement of ET3, featuring renewed ergonomics and a lightweight bodywork with maximized efficiency and cooling flow. During the season, the first presentation with a running car was made at the Engineering Faculty in order to recruit new designers, and the team participated in the two events it had been getting acquainted with, namely Formula Student Germany and Formula SAE Italy. The former event, interrupted by a hideous oil leak, gave good results, with the best being the FSG Media Award for a 30-second video presenting the event to the world. The latter keeps up with the FSG results until an unexpected engine issue causes the engine to overheat and eventually catch fire on runoff lubrication oil, midway through the Endurance event.

2010 is the year of ET3, realized by a team that receives additions also from Foreign Languages and Law departments. Thanks to the results from the previous season, the notoriety of E-Team is still growing and gets more and more team members during the season. In 2010, too, the racecar from Pisa participated both in the Italian and German competitions – held in the same locations as the year before – with excellent outcomes, reaching the top in the Italian event with first place among Italian participating teams, and getting to the ninth place overall.

In 2009, the team was composed of 43 members from 4 different Faculties: Engineering, Economics, Humanities, and Political Sciences; the group is now organized in sectors interacting and working proficiently in order to make everything work in the best way possible, just like an industrial working environment, brilliantly accomplishing its objectives, as in August 2009 the Team participates to its first international competition: Formula Student Germany, held at Hockenheimring (Hockenheim, Germany). On that occasion the group faced the competition against 78 teams from all over the world, and got the tenth position at the static “Cost Report” event.

The first competition car “ET1” was conceived and designed. The actual debut came directly in 2008, with the Team participating in the Italian event Formula Sae Italy at the Fiorano Circuit in Fiorano Modenese (MO), organized by the Italian Automotive Technical Association (ATA). The E-Team got first place among the first-year teams, and classified third among the Italian teams in the Endurance event. Since then, more members joined the group every year, enriching the team, and bringing the project to a progressively higher level every year.

Founded in late 2007, the team today comprises more than 40 members. University of Pisa competed for the first time in Formula SAE in 2008. E-Team, with a limited budget, started from the bottom and was able to race at the Italian Formula SAE event in Fiorano after 9 months of intense work. The E-Team, first among the rookies, completed the endurance race third over 11 Italian teams.

“To my knowledge, it is the first time a rookie team finishes the endurance test”
Andrea Toso, head of Dallara R&D