A Wing Shop
three-element rear wing in the MIRA wind tunnel
The Wing Shop designs racecar wings for motorsport and track day applications. Manufacturing in carbon composite is carried out by manufacturing partners DJ Racecars Ltd, ReVerie Ltd and soon from GW Racing.
Also offered is a 'whole car' aerodynamics advisory service, known as SMART (SM AeRodynamics Techniques...).
Please browse this first page and go to the links on the left to discover more.
NEWS: 2008 Champions using SM AeRodynamic Techniques and/or Wingshop wings
Congratulations
are due to Dan Wasdahl from Massillon, Ohio, on winning the A-Modified
class in the 36th Tire Rack SCCA Solo 2 Nationals at the end
of September 2008 at Heartland Park, Topeka, Kansas. Dan drove his BBR
Phantom 'Darth Vader Special' to the fastest time overall in this, 'the
world's biggest motorsport competition'. Over 1100 entrants took part
in the various classes this year, and helping Dan see them all off was
an SM-Designs, DJ Racecars manufactured multi-element wing set front
and rear, based on our high downforce '203' main element. The development
of the wings on the BBR Phantom was featured in Racecar Engineering
in August 2007 (V17N8), and was carried out by Simon McBeath using FloWizard
CFD software (see right), and the support of software supplier Ansys
is gratefully acknowledged.
Dan was full of praise for his wings, saying: "When the wings arrived Stateside my car builder's first words were 'absolutely beautiful'. More importantly, they work. These extremely high downforce wings inspire driver confidence and aggression, very important in autocross. Indeed, it feels as if the invisible hand of the almighty is reaching down from above to hold the car to the pavement. These wings were crucial to our win at the 2008 SCCA Solo 2 USA National Championship and overall fastest time for the event. And, quoting one of my competitors (who had 250+bhp vs. our 220): 'You out-downforced us. We smoked you on the straight, but you had more grip in the corners."
Dan's future developments include include more power, trial of additional wing elements, and diffuser and undertray improvements, plus upgraded dampers. Look out for him in 2009!
Why not follow the winner's lead and check out our high downforce wings?
Dan Wasdahl on his way to victory! (Photo courtesy: Rupert Berrington Action Photography)
Also
at the Solo Nationals, Fred Zust from Tempe, Arizona won the X-Prepared
class in his highly modifed Lotus Elise, sporting a '203 dual element'
wing set, and Clemens Burger from Anderson, Indiana was second in B-Modified
in his LeGrand, also with a '203 dual element' rear wing.
Fred Zust's X-Prepared Lotus Elise, left, and Clemens Burger's B-Modified LeGrand, right
And many congratulations too to Simon Fidoe on winning the British Hillclimb Leaders Championship in the 2.0 Pilbeam MP43 sports racer he shares with his father Ian. The car was running an SM-Designs/DJ Racecars '183 dual element' rear wing, and this makes it two years in a row for this configuration wing winning this championship! Ed Hollier's OMS SC1 ran the same configuration on the way to the 2007 'Leaders' title.
Wing Shop wings and SM AeRodynamic Techniques selected by BBC TV's 'Top Gear' programme!
For its assault on the Britcar 24 hour at Silverstone on September 8/9th 2007, the BBC's Top Gear team contacted the Wing Shop to request a rear wing package to go on the BMW 330D for the event. And the splitter and wing concept came about from associate producer Grant Wardrop's researches in Simon McBeath's book, Competition Car Aerodynamics. The wing kit was delivered and fitted in double quick time by DJ Racecars to meet the incredibly tight timescale of the car build, and the splitter was also installed by DJ. Simon McBeath attended the first test prior to the event to ensure the package was balanced to The Stig's liking (The Stig is the famous yet anonymous racing driver on the Top Gear Team) and wing tuning data was available. And DJ personnel were in attendance for the duration of the event. Team Top Gear finished third in class (out of five) and 39th overall out of the 60-odd cars that entered. The story was broadcast in an excellent edition of Top Gear on BBC Two in October 2007.
The Stig takes the BMW out for its first runs at Silverstone prior to the Britcar 24 Hours on September 8/9, 2007
The wing profiles, designed by SM Designs's Simon McBeath ( author of "Competition Car Aerodynamics" ) have either been evaluated in the MIRA full scale wind tunnel, and/or by computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Analysis of all this information has provided valuable technical support and development data. We also have university-based R & D projects enabling ongoing product improvement. And we are now using Fluent's Flowizard (TM) software for in-house mapping and development.
NEW! Dowforce and drag data is now available. Please go to Facts and Figures and follow the link to aerofoil data.
Wing Shop/SM Designs wings have won championships in single seater and sports racing categories as well as finding applications on track day and even road cars. In 2006 the Lotus Cadena Team won the British GT Championship with one of our wings, and many other Wing Shop customers can boast of wins and records as well as just plain old performance improvements!
Also offered is a 'whole car' aerodynamics advisory service, known as SMART (SM AeRodynamics Techniques...). If you want to join the growing band of competitors who have found extra competitiveness by using this service, check out the Advice page.
Get aerodynamic! Get SMART!!
ReVerie Ltd now makes wings designed by SM-Designs. These designs are exclusive to ReVerie and have been manufactured primarily as retro-fit items for Lotus Elise/Exige models. Available in a range of spans (widths), with either a curved (shown above) or straight planform shape (which could be deployed on most car makes), the single element design features an efficiency-enhancing end plate that makes a substantial reduction to aerodynamic drag with minimal effect on downforce. This is a clamshell mount variant.
The ReVerie wing design also comes in a tail gate mount option, as shown on the Exige S2 here. Various Lotus model fitments are available as well as 'universal' motorsport versions.
A dual element design is also available.
Highly successful sports racer constructor Juno Racing uses SM Designs rear wings, manufactured by DJ Racecars.
These
carbon composite aerofoils feature a market leading blend of strength,
rigidity, lightness, damage-tolerance and aerodynamic performance, and
as such offer excellent value for money. They also look great!
So why shop anywhere else?
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for more information
For sales and manufacturing enquiries,
please see the Contacts pages and
speak to one of our manufacturers to discuss your requirements in more
detail. SM Designs can also help with advice on wing selection and deployment.
Also check out our 'whole car' aerodynamics advisory service, SMART, on the Advice page.
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