GCU Racing & Accu Announce Partnership
We Are GCU Racing
GCU Racing is Glasgow Caledonian University’s entry into the annual Formula Student UK competition held at Silverstone Circuit.
The team comprises of over 60 students from all 3 of the schools from the University’ s Glasgow campus. Featuring mostly Engineers, the team undertake the entire process of race car design, from the drawing board to the track.
Now in their second year competing, the team has big ambitions. With the main goal of achieving a Top 15 finish, driving the team forward.
What will the partnership entail?
Accu is the new kind of component company, putting people first with their award-winning customer experience, 24-hours a day, 365 days a year. Ensuring that components are readily available on a minimal timeframe, allowing tight deadlines to be met and less time wasted waiting for the components to arrive.
Accu will be providing components to the team, along with invaluable technical support. Accu’s readily accessible library of CAD models of their components will also be utilised heavily by the teams Integration Department. Integration Officer Adam Pancechowski spoke about this and said, “Having accurate models of some of smallest components goes a long way to ensuring the larger assemblies work smoothly”.
Accu’s online store is perfect for the demands of the team. Whether it is the real time stock availability or AI-enhanced smart search, it couldn’t be easier to order parts to use the next day. Brake Team lead Joe Abbot mentioned “Accu’s website is perfect for our us, it makes component selection nice and simple for everyone. Especially when we have a range of young engineers who may not have done anything like this yet”.
One of the teams Directors, Jacob Bamsey spoke on the shared climate goal of both parties, “At GCU Racing we run our car on sustainable fuel, as a part of our commitment to the environment. As a team we know and understand the change that has to happen globally, especially in engineering in order to preserve the world for generations to come. Aligning perfectly with Accu’s Engineering A Greener Tomorrow Commitment, where they are going Net Zero by 2030”.
The Marketing team at GCU Racing are gearing up for the new semester and are aiming to go bigger than ever before. They are looking forward to the opportunity to collaborate with Accu’s Marketing Department on the opportunity to build up their experience for when they enter the industry themselves. Marketing Student & Team member Douglas Mitchell said “As someone who will be graduating this year with a marketing degree, it is incredibly useful to get experience working on real world projects”.
Technical Director TJ Scott spoke about the partnership as well saying “We couldn’t be more delighted to work with Accu as our components supplier.”
Having access to parts from Accu has enabled us to make more informed design choices. Being able to purchase a range of components that can withstand the loads required will be vital to the team’s success. GCU Racing proud to be working with Accu.