2025 - Eindhoven
Competing Teams
From the VU, two teams competed:
- LuLu: consisting of Luuk Hoekstra and Lukas Kompatscher
- Lightning McQueen: consisting of Alan Edwin, Peter Gabriel and Jotan Stoel
Qualification
The Dutch qualifications were held at the NXP factory in Nijmegen where the VU teams competed against 12 other teams from Nijmegen and Düsseldorf. The two fastest teams qualified for a spot in the finals in Eindhoven.
Results
| Finish | Team | Qualified |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd | LuLu | ✅ |
| 3rd | Lighting McQueen | ❌ |
Finals
The global finals were held at the Dutch NXP headquarters in Eindhoven, where the VU LuLu team competed against 18 other teams from Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.
Results
| Finish | Time | Team | University | Country | Lap of Honor | Final Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 15.07 | EmCar | Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic | ✅ | 700 |
| 2nd | 14.08 | μCar | Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University | 🇨🇿 Czech Republic | ❌ | 650 |
| 3rd | 16.01 | ITlcar | Universität zu Lübeck | 🇩🇪 Germany | ✅ | 550 |
| 4th | 16.20 | B020 | Politehnica University of Timisoara | 🇷🇴 Romania | ✅ | 500 |
| 5th | 15.59 | C.A.L.M.A UNICT | DIEEI Università di Catania | 🇮🇹 Italy | ❌ | 450 |
| 6th | 17.59 | A314 | Politehnica University of Timisoara | 🇷🇴 Romania | ✅ | 400 |
| 7th | 19.30 | Lulu | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | 🇳🇱 The Netherlands | ✅ | 350 |
| 8th | 17.20 | Turbo Turtles | University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf | 🇩🇪 Germany | ❌ | 300 |
| 9th | 21.00 | Motoriasi | Politehnica University of Iasi | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 150 |
| 10th | 31.00 | Pixel Racer 2.0 | HAN University of Applied Sciences | 🇳🇱 The Netherlands | ✅ | 150 |
| 11th | 21.50 | The Ducks from The Trucks | Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Engineering | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 100 |
| 12th | 29.00 | Rusteze | Technical University of Iasi 'Gheorghe Asachi' | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 0 |
| 13th | - | UPT | Politehnica University of Timisoara | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 0 |
| 14th | - | Imperiul Apache | Facultatea de Automatică și Calculatoare din Iași | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 0 |
| 15th | - | AERONAR | INSAT Institut National des Sciences Appliquées et de Technologie | ❌ | 0 | |
| 16th | - | TCE | Lebanese University Faculty of Engineering 2 | 🇱🇧 Lebanon | ❌ | 0 |
| 17th | - | ByteBuilders | Colegiul National de Informatică Tudor Vianu | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 0 |
| 18th | - | Segmentation Fault | Technical University of Iasi 'Gheorghe Asachi' | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 0 |
| 19th | - | 30%luck | Universitatea Nationala de Stiinta si Tehnologie Politehnica Bucuresti | 🇷🇴 Romania | ❌ | 0 |
| 20th | - | ARCAR1 | HE-ARC | 🇨🇭 Switzerland | ❌ | 0 |
Media
The timed run of the VU LuLu team in Eindhoven, as part of the finals. Official livestream.
Another perspective on the timed run of the VU LuLu team in Eindhoven, as part of the finals.
The VU LuLu team debugging and tuning their Rover using the ASE debugging framework during free practice in Nijmegen.
The LuLu team discussing strategy during the free practice in Eindhoven.
News
You can read about the qualification here.