The brand new race class brought a big scoop to the Dutch city Rotterdam: there was never raced with hydrogen vehicles before. Six student teams build their own car in the past year and a half and were now battling for the first Formula Zero Championship points.

Team HercUCLAs from Los Angeles, that unfortunately couldn’t compete at the main race, went on track first. Despite a lot of cheering from all team members, the car was not able to finish the important flying lap due technical problems. The Dutch team was directly up to speed and broke the track record with 36.369 seconds. The car of the British Imperial Racing Green race team, which was the most reliable car so far, qualified second just in front of the teams from Spain and Belgium.

In the semi final EuplatecH2 and Imperial Racing Green were racing against each other for a place in the final round. The Spanish appeared to be the best of the two and fought therefore against Greenchoice-Forze for victory. The Dutch team set a very quick lap of 37.956 seconds, but also EuplatecH2 was driving fast. Eventually they beat the team from Delft with less than two tenths of a second. The battle for third was won by the British. They were quicker than the Solvay Umicore Zero Emission Racing Team from Belgium who were having – also in the semi final – some bad luck.