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LETTER OF RECOMMEDATION

The team is made up of determined young people who strive annually to compete in Formula
SAE, a first-rate international engineering competition spanning six continents and over 500
teams. The efforts of the Icarus Team culminate each year in bringing to the UFRJ a placement
among the top 10 in Brazil.

The challenge the team faces is great, its members participate in a real-world engineering
exercise where they design, build and compete with formula cars. The winning team is
determined not only by the speed of the car and its running on the track, but also by
performance by acting on predefined business conditions that involve fuel economy,
manufacturing costs, design criteria and car sales image.

That is why I invite you and your organization to become a member of the Icarus family through
our sponsorship program. Organizations such as yours can contribute to team goals through
monetary investment, goods or services.

Their support for the Icarus team will enable our students' learning to continue to expand and
stand out by acquiring experimental knowledge outside the classroom and enabling them to
understand the market in which they will enter. As a team sponsor, you and your organization
can join us in the next competition, when the Icarus team will cross the finish line in Piracicaba,
São Paulo, in the Formula SAE BRASIL competition.

Thanks in advance for supporting our students.

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Dr. Fernando Augusto de N. Castro Pinto

Associado Formula SAE, Professor Orientador.

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Laboratório de Tecnologia Metalúrgica. LTM

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THE TEAM

The Icarus UFRJ team of Formula SAE is an engineering competition team, a pioneer in the country, which
since 2004 has been designing, manufacturing, testing and competing with a prototype of the Formula
category, as well as Formula 1, Formula Indy, among others, to achieve your goals. Since our creation, by
students of mechanical engineering at UFRJ, and together with the professor responsible, Fernando
Castro Pinto, we compete against more than 40 teams, aiming to gain space in the international
competition, which takes place in Michigan, USA. Our trajectory, among the top 10 ever, reflects the
commitment and contribution of all those who have passed through it: students, teachers and sponsors
of our team.

Our members are undergraduate students in several engineering courses at UFRJ. However, we are not
limited to this, reaching students of other undergraduate and postgraduate courses, such as physics,
mathematics, industrial design, social communication and marketing, creating an interdisciplinary
environment for the production of knowledge and experience, as we will speak later . In order to complete
your projects, we have laboratories from UFRJ itself, technicians, teachers, and maybe you, a future
member of the Icarus UFRJ Team!
The goal of the competition is to give to the engieniering the oportunity of apply their knowladge acquired
on the university in a simulatedprofessional enviroment by creating and developing a formula race car.

THE FORMULA SAE

Created in 2004, the Formula Sae Brazil is going to your 15
th edition. In 2016 there were more than 1030 people
enrolled from 50 teams, numbers that grown every year.
The best teams in each year earn the right to represent
Brazil in 2 international competitions on USA, Michigan
and Lincoln.

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OUR GOALS
Superficially, most FSAE teams would say that their main goal is to get on the podium and be first place.
However Icarus Team is not limited to that idea! Our goal, and reason to exist, is to develop our members
within the 3 pillars that show our values, they are: academic, professional and interpersonal. Without
them we would not achieve what we achieved and would not have prospective of achieve more. The
developing, fabrication and validation are the tools used by us to develop ourselves as engineers inside
the 3 pillars. And only this method that Icarus Team, along with you supports, will be one of the top
developers of technical knowledge of Brazil. For this happen we count on your partnership, because one
of the reasons of we being one of the top 10 team for almost 15 years is our sponsors.

THE COMPETITION

STATIC EVENTS

PRESENTATION EVENT solutions to the challenges encountered

A business plan is drawn up to attract investors
from a hypothetical company for mass
production and sale of the prototype to the
public.
DESIGN
The judges evaluate the project presentations of
the areas. Among them: simulation results,
validation experiments performed and project
evolution. The goal is to present the best
throughout the project.
COST AND MANUFACTURE
Each team submits a production report that
describes the theoretical costs associated with a
limited production cycle based on the car design
and is evaluated at cost / benefit of the
components, materials and manufacturing
processes chosen for the prototype.

DYNAMIC EVENTS

ACCELERATION The laps are averaged, and the shortest time

Tests the starting power and speed of the car.
Two riders run for 75 meters.
AUTOCROSS
In a track of approximately 800 meters, the team
that play the shortest possible time of course
takes maximum points.
SKID-PAD
In an 8-way track, two turns are made for one
direction and 2 turns on the other, in order to
measure the performance of the car in turns.
also yields the highest number of points.
ENDURANCE
22km, one stop is allowed. It looks for the
shortest time possible, without any fault in the
car. Any breakage, fluid leakage, etc. leads to
elimination in the race. The cars that complete
the race are judged by the fuel consumption in
relation to the time spent, from an equation that
determines the most efficient car.

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 THE PROTOTYPE

This car was total projected and developed by our team in 2016. In 2017
it was improved and got the 7th place in the national competition.

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OUR SPONSORS
PLATINUM

GOLD

SILVER

BRONZE

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MEDIA VISIBILITY

The dissemination of the Formula SAE UFRJ project is done with the full support of the press
office of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro beyond, of course, the dissemination in social
media.

TEAM WEBSITE

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

YOUTUBE

2018 PROJECT

This season we created a new marketing area.

The objective of it is to people know better our
team in a faster and more efficient way

PRESS

The team counts with the visibility of reports of

TV stations like Globo and Record. We also counts
on newspapers, like the UFRJ newspapers and O
Globo, and magazines expecialized in Formula
SAE

UFRJ EVENTS
Exhibition in events in UFRJ; presentations in
publics and private schools

SPONSOR EVENTS
Exhibition of the car in locals requested by the
sponsor

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THE SPONSORSHIP

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CONTACT

TEAM E-MAIL

formulasae@poli.ufrj.br

MARKETING E-MAIL

formulasae@poli.ufrj.br

UFRJ ADDRESS

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica (DEM)

Av. Brigadeiro Trompowski s/n Prédio do Centro de Tecnologia, Bloco G, sala G- 204
Cidade Universitária, Rio de Janeiro - RJ CEP. 21945-970
Inscrição Estadual - Isenta CNPJ: 33.663.683/0001-16

CAPITAIN
Higor Pinudo
E-mail: higor.pinudo@poli.ufrj.br
Telefone: 021 98501 - 5557

MARKETING MANAGER
Vitor Alexandre
E-mail: victor.alexandre@poli.ufrj.br
Telefone: 021 98501 - 5557

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