Stralsund hydrogen race car wins European Shell Championship

Stralsund. “I felt like Michael Schumacher,” Thanarik Bogdansky says. Together with 14 other students from the university, the native Thais were allowed to take part in the Shell Eco Marathon in France and drive the famous Paul Armagnac Nogaro circuit. However, their car was not a red Ferrari, but rather a homemade hydrogen race car.

The first prototype was developed in 2008 and aims to give Stralsund students the opportunity to gain practical experience and help shape the technology of tomorrow. That’s what Team ThaiGer-H2 Racing, the name of their group, stands for, even every Saturday in the workshop. All the work is worth it: Stralsund University of Applied Sciences won first place in the hydrogen category. In addition, mechanical engineering student David van Riekom got his own trophy for his innovative pressure reducer.