IZTECH Racing: Five Subteams, One Car, Two Podiums

Five subteams, one car, first season

IZTECH Racing is the Formula Student team at Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey. In 2026 the team built its first competition car from the ground up: 49 members, five engineering subteams (Chassis and Ergonomics, Vehicle Dynamics, Powertrain, Aerodynamics, Electronics), and about 20 engineers designing in SOLIDWORKS® 3D CAD at the same time.

Every subteam's work lands on someone else's part. The chassis moves a mount and the powertrain bracket no longer fits. The aero package grows and clears nothing. With 20 people in the assembly, the car only works if everyone is on the same version of every file.

Before the season the team had no system for that at all. Sibe sponsored IZTECH Racing with a cloud CAD Document Management workspace, so the team started the season with one place for every CAD file and a version history from day one.

How the team used it

All five subteams checked their files in and out of the same workspace directly in SolidWorks. Sibe tracked every version, so a student at the workshop, in a campus lab or at home late at night opened the current assembly, not a copy from last week.

"As a first year team building our very first competition car from the ground up, keeping dozens of student engineers in sync was one of our biggest challenges. Having seamless access to our latest assemblies from anywhere, at any time, completely transformed how we collaborated. Whether at the workshop, campus labs, or late at night at home. Sibe gave our subteams the confidence to iterate fast without worrying about version conflicts or broken references."

Ödül Yarkın Baran, Organization Department Leader, IZTECH Racing

What the students get from the workspace:

• Check files in and out directly in SolidWorks, with assembly references resolved
• Every version and revision tracked automatically, so nobody overwrites a teammate's work by accident
• See who has a part checked out and where every file stands, from the status icons in the local cache
• Roll back to an earlier version when a change does not work out
• Send a public share link to a sponsor, an advisor or a judge with no Sibe account and no CAD license

No servers, no VPNs, no admin hassles.

Two competitions, two podiums

The 2026 car, number 35, raced at two events.

• Formula Student Balkans, the team's first competition: 2nd of 8 teams in the Business Plan Presentation, and the Turkish flag on the podium
• Formula Student Romania: 1st of 11 teams from 7 countries in the Business Plan Presentation, plus the Most Friendly Team award

Why the file history matters at competition

A Formula Student car is judged on paper as well as on track. The Business Plan Presentation and the design judging both ask the team to explain its decisions, and a decision is easier to defend when the revision history behind it already exists. That history builds itself as the students work. Nobody reconstructs it the week before the event.

Next season

The team is already planning the 2027 car. We will be following the build.

If you run a student engineering team in SolidWorks, get in touch. We would like to hear what you are building. More student teams on Sibe: UNLV Formula Racing and Lassonde Motorsports.

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