2017-2018 Season
2016-2017 Season
May 30, 2017
Mihai Agud – Specialist Engineer
May 9, 2019
Team
Mihai Ghinea – Associate professor, PhD
He is not just “the coach”, but the permanent interface between the needs of our team and officials, industries, sponsors, organizers etc
Dragos Chereches – 3rd year Bachelor student
New entry in UPBAIR team
Daniel-Robert Stanciu – 4th year Bachelor student
He is our chief mechanic, good at all and good friend of everybody. He is responsible with the protorype functionality, with the tools, our computer and our strategy
Bogdan Mihai Zbircea – 3rd year Bachelor student
New entry in UPBAIR team
Liviu Ungureanu – 4th year Bachelor student
He is our second mechanic, agood biker, and he will be our fast driver
Competition
Even the organizers themselves were surprised by the interest in the first race. Most of the participating teams brought very simple vehicles built of many bicycle parts and only a few of them used elector-pneumatic units. However, some interesting and smart designs popped up, such as the wheel-integrated drive.
So today’s pneumobiles are equipped with dual brake systems, massive framework four-point safety belts among others and only sit-in constructions are allowed, where the frame structure surrounds and protect the pilot all around.
Project
The new UPBAIR project in 2018 introduced electronic control of the pneumatic equipment for the first time. The new members Dragos and Bogdan complemented the more experienced Liviu and Robert well. The new issues that arose did not greatly decrease the results of the previous participation, but certainly brought added experience to the team.
