Midlands 3D has introduced an extension of its partnership with British Touring Automobile frontrunners West Surrey Racing.
The continued collaboration will see extra 3D printed parts, produced with HP’s Multi Jet Fusion additive manufacturing know-how, utilized by WSR-run Crew BMW and Laser Instruments Racing with MB Motorsport 3 Sequence race automobiles all through the 2024 BTCC season.
Paul Moloney, Managing Director, Midlands 3D, stated: “Our partnership over the previous two seasons with WSR has seen a major improve in the usage of our capabilities and we’re proud to help such a prestigious and profitable crew. We’re actually demonstrating the flexibility of the know-how, the supplies, and our means to supply race-ready elements with tremendous fast lead occasions.”
Elements embrace 3D printed end-use ducting and brackets alongside workshop tooling and setup gear. The UK-based 3D printing service supplier stated greater than 100 3D printed elements have been used, ‘following an intensive winter programme of performance-related upgrades,’ which goals to propel the BMW 330e M Sport race automobiles to their seventeenth total title this 12 months.
Carl Mitchell, Sporting & Operations Supervisor, WSR, stated: “We’re thrilled to proceed this technical partnership with Midlands 3D after two profitable years. Utilizing elements produced by Multi-Jet Fusion know-how has decreased the lead time on the related parts, elevated automotive efficiency and – by way of the usage of HP’s Excessive Reusability PA12 – improved the sustainability of what we use to construct and put together our championship-winning BMWs. Midlands 3D’s ingenuity and quick manufacturing turnaround occasions have made them a key a part of our programme of winter upgrades that at the moment are being track-tested on our BMW race automobiles.”
Midlands 3D says over 75% of its manufacturing is now being attributed to batch manufacturing functions. It’s also supporting the BTCC’s sustainability objectives with its use of sustainable supplies resembling recycled filaments and HP’s Excessive Reusability PA12 nylon.
