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Latest News   8/10/2007 : First Formula Student Meeting For Brunel Masters Motorsport   Although many of us had met before to discuss the Formula Student project, the start of  October saw the first main meeting with the whole team and Professor Hua Zhao, our faculty  advisor. Many of us knew what we wanted to do, we selected a potential chassis to work on,   which was the BMM-3 space frame chassis, and so on, but this meeting changed everything. O ne big change was the ‘addition’ of David Lane, a member of the BR-8 team who just moved into the MSc programme. He brought a lot of experience from Brunel Racing and knew how the Brunel system ran, which is a huge benefit, especially on the powertrain side of the project. The meeting itself reassured most of the team , who had met before, of what had to be done and gave the others a brief idea of what is required of them. In this meeting, the areas that people worked in were decided, and negotiations were made. I negotiated with Villy about our powertrain project areas and in the end we swapped half of our projects. Team and group leaders were also decided during that meeting, and again, compromises had to be made and in the end, 4 group leaders were assigned instead of 2, thus splitting the work load. The existing 2 positions, Technical Team Leader and Team Administrator still exist, but the new positions consist of a Marketing Team Leader and Finance Team Leader. This meeting also put forward the view to use BR-5, a carbon fibre monocoque design a made in 2003/04. The advantages of this was clearly the existin lightweight design, but the complications were what we didn’t like from the start. The main reason was that the ability to modify the design and suspension was limited and much harder with this chassis, but there was a plus of a full re-design of the rear tubular chassis. David put a very convincing proposal forward with some contacts that will help us with any modifications. In the end, we chose the BR-5 carbon fibre monocoque due to its weight and the fact that the rear can be totally re-designed to our new requirements. Mike Thomas Read More News                                          The BMM team is currently   seeking sponsors for the    2008 Formula Student.   If you would like to learn   more about sponsoring the   team and the benefits you   can have please Click Here   © Brunel Masters Motorsports 2007