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 at the same time.

Every subteam's work lands on someone else's part. The chassis team moves a mount and the powertrain bracket no longer fits. The aero package grows into space another subteam already used. 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. They started it on a cloud CAD Document Management workspace from Sibe, as part of Sibe's sponsorship: one place for every CAD file, and a version history from day one.

28 people in one assembly, 165 versions

Each subteam had its own folder in the workspace from the start, so nobody had to ask where a file lived. All five subteams checked their files in and out directly in SolidWorks, and Sibe tracked every version. The main assembly alone had at least 28 people working on it and went through 165 versions over the season. When someone changed a part, the change was already in Sibe, so nobody had to post "I updated the file" in the group chat. 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 workspace gives any team working in the same assembly:

• 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, the Turkish flag on the podium, and 6th overall
• Formula Student Romania: 1st of 11 teams from 7 countries in the Business Plan Presentation, 5th in Engineering Design, 6th overall, plus the Most Friendly Team award

Season in photos1 / 3Swipe →←→

Showing the judges the design history

A Formula Student car is judged on paper as well as on track. At Formula Student Romania, the design judges asked the team how its design process worked. Instead of describing it, the team opened Sibe and showed them the version history of the car: who changed what, and when. That history built itself as the students worked. Nobody had to reconstruct it the week before the event.

The same question comes up on a production team, from a customer audit, a supplier query or a new engineer asking why a part looks the way it does. The answer is already in the version history.

Next season

The team is already planning for 2027: Formula Student Balkans again, plus Formula Student Alpe Adria, Czech Republic and Austria, events that count toward the Formula Student world ranking. The goals for the season are a team that lasts beyond its founding members and more podiums in the static events. 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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