HAWKS Racing: NOVA’s Journey Through Europe

HAWKS Racing e.V. is the Formula Student Team of HAW Hamburg. We look back on an eventful season in which we not only built our 19th race car, NOVA, but also successfully participated in four events during the summer of 2024.

At our first event in Austria, we faced minor technical issues—but that didn’t stop us from completing the 22 km endurance run successfully! The second event was Formula Student Czech, where we truly showed what we’re capable of, scoring over 500 points for the first time since 2017. At Formula Student Germany, we secured an impressive 15th place out of 79 teams, and achieved another milestone: for the first time in 6.9 years, we completed the endurance race in Hockenheim! A major highlight was taking 1st place in the Siemens Digital Twin Award. Our 2024 event tour concluded in Italy, where we achieved 3rd place in the Cost Event and won the Magna Special Award.

After our final event, we held our annual Partner & Team Test Days in mid-September. Over two days, team members and sponsors had the opportunity to experience the H19 up close and even take it for a drive. A total of 35 different drivers covered more than 169 km.

A big part of this season’s success is owed to the reliability of our electrical components! We design and assemble all our PCBs ourselves, and for over two years we’ve been supported by high-quality PCBs from Eurocircuits. Every board installed in the H19—from the brake light to the AMS Master and Power Distribution Unit—was manufactured by Eurocircuits.

We are incredibly grateful for this support and look forward to continuing a successful partnership.

For more information please visit the Hawks Racing website.