page_title: Formula Manipal
section_title: Season 2007-08
hierarchical_section_title: Formula Manipal / Racing Seasons / Season 2007-08
caption_attribution_description: English: FM-08
context_page_description: Formula Manipal is a Manipal Academy of Higher Education-based student project which aims to design, build and test a Formula-style race car. It started as an abstract idea in 2007, and today has become the biggest and most successful student initiative of Manipal University. The team consists of over fifty inter-disciplinary undergraduates who aim to conceive, design, fabricate, develop, and compete with other Formula style vehicles at International Formula Student events.
  Formula Manipal has been competing in the international Formula Student competitions for the past ten years and made its debut in 2008 at FSAE Italy with the FM08. In the following year, 2009, the team participated in the Formula Student event in UK with the FM09. The team then had a successful participation in FS Austria with the FM-X, the season 2010 car. The year 2011 saw the development of the fourth prototype, the FMXI, which competed in FSAE Italy.
  Season 2013 turned out to be the most amazing year for Formula Manipal in its history. For the first time, the team successfully participated in two FSAE events in the same calendar year with the FMX3.
context_section_description: FM08 participated at FSAE Italy in 2008 at the Ferrari Fiorano Circuit in Italy. It was the only Asian team participating at the competition. The car cleared all the static events. The team secured an overall position of 28th and stood 17th in the cost event.
caption: The FM08 on the Fiorano Circuit at FSAE Italy
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