WSR partner with Midlands 3D 2022 BTCC season
29 March 2022
Matsuura HP 3D
Midlands 3D enters into technical partnership with WSR to bring additive
manufacturing to their 2022 British Touring Car Championship campaign.
Stone, Staffordshire: Midlands 3D are proud to announce a new technical partnership with West
Surrey Racing, ahead of the 2022 British Touring Car Championship. Parts manufactured in the
Midlands 3D facility based in Stone, Staffordshire will be used on the Team BMW 330e M Sport race
cars as they take to the Donington Park grid on April 23rd for the season opener.
Midlands 3D Printing are supplied with HP Multi-Jet Fusion 3D printers and fully supported in the UK by Matsuura Machinery Ltd - the UK's leading authority on HP MJF 3D printers and their manufacturing applications.
The Staffordshire-based organisation offers a range of 3D printing services including prototyping,
design and manufacturing services. Technologies include FDM, SLA and industry-leading HP Multi-Jet
Fusion (MJF) to produce strong, durable components from their fully in-house manufacturing
facility, perfect for the fast paced and demanding functional requirements of motorsport
applications.
In line with the BTCC’s incorporation of electric-hybrid powertrain technology in 2022, Midlands
3D’s use of sustainable materials – such as recycled filaments from Filamentive and HP’s High
Reusability PA12 nylon - in their production processes, helps WSR to move towards a less
environmentally-impactful way of working.
With reduced lead times and increased design flexibility on component design compared to more
traditional manufacturing processes, and a reduced reliance on an increasingly fragile
supply-chain, on-demand 3D printing is increasingly popular for motorsport and wider automotive
industry applications.
The two WSR-run Team BMW 330e M Sports of four-time BTCC champion Colin Turkington and team-mate
Stephen Jelley plus the ROKiT MB Motorsport 3 Series of Jake Hill will use components created by
Midlands 3D throughout the 2022 BTCC season.
The company’s branding will also appear on all three race cars.
The 64th BTCC season kicks off at Donington Park on April 23rd & 24th and features a 10- round
season at the UK’s best racetracks. Every race is shown live and uninterrupted on ITV4 in high
definition.
Dick Bennetts, Team Principal, said: “We’re very pleased to announce this technical
partnership with Midlands 3D. Using components produced with Multi-Jet Fusion
technology is a first for WSR and we’re very interested to see how we can not only reduce
lead times, but also - through the use of HP’s High Reusability PA12 - improve the sustainability
of what we use to build and prepare our championship-winning BMWs.
Paul Moloney, Managing Director, Midlands 3D, said: “We’re extremely pleased to enter a technical
partnership with WSR; one of the most successful teams in the 60-plus year history of the British
Touring Car Championship. We see the BTCC as an ideal platform to showcase our capabilities and
processes showing how our sustainability focus can be of
benefit to the motorsport industry. We believe WSR are perfect partners to help us achieve this".
Midlands 3D Printing are supplied with HP Multi-Jet Fusion 3D printers and fully supported in the UK by Matsuura Machinery Ltd - the UK's leading authority on HP MJF 3D printers and their manufacturing applications.
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