Formula Student results - Telegraph Formula Student, run by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers since 1998, when only four teams took part, challenges universities from across the world to design and build an F1-style racing car in one year before racing them at Silverstone. The cars are judged on their speed, acceleration, handling and endurance, while the teams are tested on their design, costing and business presentation skills. The 50 UK universities taking part also put in a good showing, with Oxford Brookes University taking 7th after winning the figure of eight skidpad event and taking third in the single-lap sprint. Liverpool John Moores University also impressed, taking 12th, while the University of Hertfordshire came 15th. Andrew Deakin, Formula Student vice-chairman, said: "Chalmers University's car is a masterpiece of engineering that makes a worthy winner. As well as being one of the fastest cars round the track, it also performed consistently and impressively in the static events. Delft's electric car pushed it to the wire, showing that the future of motorsport needn't necessarily lie in the internal combustion engine. These young engineers will mature into the motorsport team bosses and industry leaders of the future. Formula Student 2012 top 10 Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden): 850.5 points out of 1,000 Delft University of Technology (Netherlands): 848.1 points Monash University (Australia): 840.7 points TU Munich (Germany): 784.2 points University of Stuttgart (Germany): 778.6 points Tallinn University of Applied Sciences (Estonia) - 745.5 points Oxford Brookes University (UK) - 718.6 points UAS Amberg-Weiden (Germany) - 665.4 points UAS Zwickau (Germany) - 661.5 points TU Graz (Austria) - 590.5 points