With the winter vacations almost coming to an end , the team has taken a break for one week to celebrate the new year.

Last weekend we were visited by the 1984 batch Alumni of MIT , they visited our workshop and many of them have agreed to help us by sponsoring us financially and in kind.Cheers to the spirit of MIT !

We had another high profile visitor in Mr.Salman Khurshid (Minister of State for Corporate Affairs and Minority Affairs), he was impressed by our 2009 car and wished us good luck for the 2010 season.We thank him for his encouragement.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy new year from the Formula Manipal team.

The placement of the final year students is going on in full swing and the who’s who from various industries are coming to the MIT campus for recruitment .

So when Maruti Suzuki came to our campus they were very much interested in knowing where we build our race cars. They were one of our sponsors in 2008 season and were very happy to see how the team had progressed over the last year, especially the new facilities in our workshop.

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The electrical connectors for FM-X have arrived from Germany. LEMO Elektronik GmbH, one of our first 2010 sponsors have been very kind and provided us with F1 grade push-pull type connectors for the car. Reliability of the electrical system is of utmost important (especially in rainy conditions like at Silverstone 2009) to ensure that we perform well in the dynamic events.

Special thanks to Mr. Hauck, Mrs. Traupe, Mr. Schmid, and Mr. Mathemeier of LEMO Elektronik GmbH and Stephanie of Lions Racing for making this possible.