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Formula-G
TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council)
TÜBİTAK organizes TÜBİTAK Formula-G Solar Car Race in order to increase awareness in public about alternative energy resources, to provide creation of necessary brain power and knowledge for widespread usage of alternative energy resources, to encourage university students to use their theoretical knowledge to create products that will use clean and renewable energy resources particularly sun and hydrogen in the first place by teamwork.
The aim in these studies is to inform public about alternative energy resources .
All the university students who are open for research can participate in these studies.
Researchers who want to attend the races can participate in races organized every year with their cars.
TÜBİTAK Formula-G one of the races to which university teams from all over Turkey participate with the cars they produce themselves has been realized for 4 times before.
16 university teams in 2005 , 32 university teams in 2006 , 42 university teams in 2007 and 25 university teams in 2008 participated in Formula-G which has been organized in the form of track race up to now.
The individuals are aimed to be ones who are aware of alternative energy resources . and environmentalists with the activities performed. Car races are organized regularly every year for that purpose.
Murat Demirbaş
Kırıkkale University
Asst. Prof. Dr.