Midlands 3D has introduced an extension of its partnership with British Touring Automotive frontrunners West Surrey Racing.
The continued collaboration will see extra 3D printed parts, produced with HP’s Multi Jet Fusion additive manufacturing expertise, utilized by WSR-run Staff BMW and Laser Instruments Racing with MB Motorsport 3 Collection 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 assist such a prestigious and profitable workforce. We’re actually demonstrating the flexibility of the expertise, the supplies, and our potential to provide race-ready components with tremendous fast lead instances.”
Elements embrace 3D printed end-use ducting and brackets alongside workshop tooling and setup tools. The UK-based 3D printing service supplier stated greater than 100 3D printed components 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 general 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 components produced by Multi-Jet Fusion expertise has decreased the lead time on the related parts, elevated automobile efficiency and – by 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 instances have made them a key a part of our programme of winter upgrades that are actually 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 targets with its use of sustainable supplies resembling recycled filaments and HP’s Excessive Reusability PA12 nylon.