01 Combustion
RZ-XX6-C
Our 2026 combustion prototype placed sixth overall at Formula Bharat, with fifth in Engineering Design Presentation and second in Business Plan Presentation.
Explore the car archiveRV College of Engineering · 22 Years of Ashwa
Built by
students.
We are Ashwa Racing: a student engineering team that designs, builds, and races Formula Student cars from Bengaluru, India.
Discover our work2003Founded at RVCE
22Years of Ashwa
~90People across four academic years
10Subsystems
01 / The team
One team.
Many disciplines.
Ashwa Racing is the Formula Student team of RV College of Engineering. For 22 years, generations of students have taken on the full challenge of motorsport engineering: from first sketches and simulations to fabrication, testing, and the start line.
Our work brings mechanical, electrical, electronics, and software engineering together with planning, finance, and operations. Students own real decisions, learn from one another, and pass hard-won knowledge on to the next team.
Meet the team02 / What we build
Engineering
in motion.
Every season starts with a new set of constraints. Our teams turn them into machines, systems, and ideas we can put to the test.
02 Electric
RZ-XX6-E
Ashwa Racing's first fully electric prototype brings together a clean sheet chassis, custom high-voltage battery pack, electric powertrain, and in-house data acquisition.
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03 Hybrid
Systems, integrated
Our hybrid programme combined combustion and electric power, earning back-to-back category championships at Formula Hybrid + Electric in 2020 and 2021.
Explore the car archiveIn development Driverless systems extend our engineering work into perception, vehicle control, and autonomous driving.
RZ05 · Our first prototype03 / A continuing story
From the first
to the next.
Our first prototype, RZ05, took Ashwa to Formula SAE Australasia in 2005, where the team received the Best Endeavour and Best Cost awards. Since then, every car has carried forward the work of the students who came before it.
That continuity is part of the engineering: document what you learn, build on it, and leave the next team a stronger starting point.
Trace the prototype history04 / Beyond the circuit
The same drive.
New frontiers.
Our engineering community has also designed and built a hyperloop pod. The team was a finalist at European Hyperloop Week 2023 at ETH Zürich, taking student-built mobility research beyond the racetrack.
How Ashwa is organisedBe part of the next chapter
Good engineering
takes a team.
Follow our work, meet the people behind it, or help us build the next car.