“To ensure strong traction right from the start, the AMZ team has developed a kind of vacuum cleaner that holds the vehicle down to the ground by suction.”
Students built a 140 kilo car with four self-made hub motors and 240 kilowatts, and it hit 100 km/h in 12.3 metres. The old record of 1.461 seconds belonged to a University of Stuttgart team. Wings only push a car down once it is moving, so the students used a vacuum instead. A student club cut the record by more than a third.