An all-girls team from Pakistan claimed global fame as they built a single-seater Formula car at the Student Formula Competition recently held in the UK. Representing their academic institution, National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Islamabad, in the competition that had students compete from across the globe, the all-girls Team Auj – comprised of 15 students – has earned unique distinction of being the first ones ever to have built the race car.

The Student Formula competition is a platform that provides opportunities to candidates from various universities to build single-seater race cars; and this competition takes place at the Silverstone Circuit in the UK.