The FSG Registration/Rules Quiz - Things you should know

It is already that time of the year: The European registration season is approaching quickly, starting with the FSC and FSE early registration in about a week. The registration procedures differ from competition to competition so I thought it would be good to shed some light on FSG's way of doing it and the associated background information aka "Why it is done this way".

Why I decided to start a blog

Back in autumn 2008, I was asked by the board (I will tell you what the board is in another post) of Formula Student Germany, if I wanted to participate in developing rules for an Electric FS class.

Some of my first thoughts were: How could I make a difference as an Official? What was missing in terms of information delivered about the reasoning behind ?

One of the answers was/is: The structure and the work of the rules committee and also the organisational structures/work of the Officials of the FS competitions always lacked transparency for me.

The rules committee (I will also write about that in the future) for example was a big grey cloud and each released rules version made me often scratch my head and think: