Lectures and workshops are organized at the start of every season to teach the team members the fundamentals on race vehicle design.
Older members often assist the newcomers during the year, helping ensure the quality of work.
[3] Founded in 2000 by two students at the TU Delft, the team started their first racing adventure in the summer of 2001.
With a group of 20 students, the team managed to come up with a competitive 4 cylinder open-wheel racing car, which ended up finishing as the second best newcomer.
The DUT Racing team designed their 2003 car for a lower power standard by using a lighter 530cc KTM 1-cylinder engine.
[5] Due to this difference in weight, without losing on performance, the team won the design engineering award for the first time.
With a third place in the new Formula Student competition at the Hockenheimring, Germany, the team got their first podium finish.
The 2007 season brought another success, with the team managing a second place in the FISITA World Championship at Silverstone Circuit, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
[7] The performance showed by the electric cars in the 2010 season, made the DUT Racing team change to the new class in 2011.
[8] The time was beaten by the ETH Zurich car (0-75m in 3,210s) at the Formula SAE Italy competition in September 2013.
[9] Later on, in September 2013, the DUT12 would set a Guinness World Record for acceleration of an electric car, by reaching 100 km/h in 2.13 seconds.