José Luis Sanz commits to supporting ARUS Andalucía Racing Team after learning about his career and future projects

The Mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz Ruiz , visited today the Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville to learn first-hand about the ARUS Andalucía Racing Team , which is based at the center and brings together 110 students from different disciplines. from the University of Seville. The mayor has expressed his personal commitment and that of the Seville City Council to this veteran team in the Formula Student .

The mayor was received by Miguel Ángel Castro Arroyo , rector of the University of Seville, as well as by Andrés Sáez Pérez, director of the Higher Technical School of Engineering (ETSi) and Pedro García Macías , team manager of the team, who accompanied him to visit the spaces provided by the School in the Workshops and Laboratories building where the US team works to continue facing new challenges.

During the visit to the ARUS facilities, they were able to see the progress made in the prototype that the team is developing for the next European competition circuit, verifying that they follow the line of commitment of all the institutions involved for sustainable and autonomous mobility.

The team, which competes every year in the Formula Students, was created in 2012 at the ETSi on the initiative of its students, who saw the need to integrate students from other degrees into their group who could contribute their knowledge in other unrelated subjects. to engineering. In this way, it grew and became what it is today, a team that designs, manufactures and seeks financing to create a competition vehicle each season, and in different categories – combustion, electric and soon autonomous.

Last season, they abandoned the combustion car and, currently, they will focus entirely on an electric vehicle that will take them to compete in the main European Formula Students events, whose regulations also require them to introduce new features every year. on the chassis.

Furthermore, as a medium-term project, ARUS is immersed in the design and creation of a new autonomous vehicle, which they want to present in upcoming competitions. This will be the first Andalusian autonomous car to compete in any of the categories, and as a novelty it will not work by radio control, but through code sensing, algorithms that make the car capable of interpreting the circuit itself.

With these two new prototypes, in whose development the team is currently immersed, they aim to surpass the successes of past editions - the ARUS Andalucía Racing Team electric vehicle managed to position itself in first place among the rest of the Spanish teams - debuting for the first time with the autonomous vehicle.

During the month of January, the cuts will take place that discriminate the circuits in which they will compete next summer. Around 700 teams from all over the world are presented. The teams that obtain the best results will be able to choose which events they attend, always choosing those of the highest level.

Circuits such as Assen, in the Netherlands, or Hockenheirim, in Germany, have witnessed legendary races by this Sevillian team.

The institutional visit that took place today represents fundamental support for this team of students who are not only in charge of developing the vehicles with which they will compete, but also of developing a financing and patronage project that allows them to continue growing. In this sense, the support shown by the Seville City Council and its commitment to acting as a link with other institutions and companies will allow them to meet their sustainability and autonomous mobility objectives.