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THE WING SHOP HOME PAGE The Wing Shop designs racecar wings for motorsport and track day applications. Production in pre-preg carbon composite is carried out by manufacturing partners DJ Engineering Services Ltd, ReVerie Ltd and GW Racing. Our wings are used by some of the top teams in a wide range of competition categories around the world. Why choose our wings? Check out the list of winners using our products further down this page and take a look at the Facts and Figures page. Need help with your wing selection? Go to Advice Also offered is a 'whole car' aerodynamics advisory service, known as SMART (SM AeRo Techniques...). If you want to join the growing band of competitors who have found extra competitiveness by using this service, check out the SMART page. Get aerodynamic! Get SMART!! Please browse this page and go to the links on the left to discover more. |
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TO THE MIRA WIND TUNNEL WITH TWO TIME ATTACK CARS! First up was the Lotus Exige of Jamie Willson, who won the Club Pro class in 2012 and is moving up to the Pro class in 2013, with more engine power and, of course, many aerodynamic developments too worked out by Jamie and his team with a few conversations with The Wing Shop. Jamie runs an SM/DJ '183' dual element wing on his Exige. Then we ran the latest and much anticipated offering from Roger Clark Motorsport, 'Gobstopper 2', otherwise known as the latest Subaru Impreza project from this world renowned company, who won the UK Time Attack Pro class in 2008 and 2009 with 'Gobstopper'. Unlike its predecesor the car features an aggressive and well thought through aerodynamics package, with an SM/DJ '203' dual element wing on the rear. RCM directors Matt and Olly Clark were present to observe and work on the car during the session, and much useful information was gathered. To find out how the cars fared, subscribe to Racecar Engineering magazine and expect these cars to appear in the coming months. |
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MORE SUCCESSES FOR WING SHOP WINGS IN 2012! |
Anthony Reid won the Top 20 Shootout in the Chevron GR8 GT3 at the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed. Photo by kind permission of Chevron, taken by ace snapper Jeff Bloxham. |
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UK Hillclimbing - wins and records Jos Goodyear and Lee Adams, sharing the 1.6 GWR Raptor, finished 4th and 6th respectively in the British Championship with Wing Shop/GWR wings, and Wallace Menzies in the 3.2 DJ Firestorm, who finished 5th with Wing Shop/DJ wings. Jos Goodyear also now holds the outright hill records at both the Channel Island hillclimbs that hold BHC rounds, Bouley Bay, Jersey, and Val de terres, Guernsey. And the Raptor pairing took a fantastic 1-2 in the Hillclimb Leaders Championship, this an amazing feat when they were taking points off each other in what is a class position-based series. And between them they broke eight class records in the up to 1600cc racing car class. Further wins came along during the season for Graham Wynn (1.6 Force LM sports libre) who was fourth overall in the Hillclimb Leaders Championship and took the up to 2000cc sports libre class championship with DJ-made rear wings. Alex Summers was fifth overall and won the up to 2000cc racing car class championship in the supercharged 1.3 DJ Firehawk, breaking five class records along the way. With Wallace Menzies finishing equal 9th in the Hillclimb Leaders Championship, that's five of the top 10 places of this championship to Wing Shop wings in 2012! And Will Hall scored his maiden BHC Run Off win in the very last Run Off of the year in his unique Force WH Nissan V6, with Wing Shop/DJ rear wings. This made it four of the top ten in this championship to have won Run Offs with Wing Shop wings.
Graham Wynn, Force LM001
Will Hall, Force V6 |
Jos Godyear in the amazing GWR Raptor, Wing Shop/GWR wings front and rear
Wallace Menzies in the DJ Firestorm
The DJ Firestorm in the MIRA wind tunnel
Alex Summers in the DJ Firehawk
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2012 SCCA Autocross Nationals wins for Wing Shop designed, DJ-made wings Congratulations are again due to Clemens Burger from Noblesville, Indiana who took his third class win in B-Modified in his LeGrand after winning the class in 2009 and 2010. And Dan Wasdahl from Massillon, Ohio once again took the win in A-Modified in his BBR Phantom DVS-1. Dan, who won A-Mod in 2008/09/10, also set fastest time of the event ahead of Clemens Burger who set second fastest time overall!! The above drivers were using Wing Shop designed, DJ Racecars manufactured multi-element wing sets front and rear (well Dan was anyway, Clemens ran our potent dual element rear wing!), 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 CFD, and the support of software supplier Ansys is gratefully acknowledged. Why not follow the winners' lead and check out our high downforce wings? |
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UK Time Attack success |
Jamie Willson in his Time Attack Exige |
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World Time Attack Challenge
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Mark Berry, Advan Hi Octane Nissan R34 GTR |
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UK Ten of the Best - overall winner
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Andy Forrest's potent Impreza |
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The wing profiles, designed by The Wing Shop'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 have also benefitted from university-based R & D projects. And we are now using Ansys CFD-Flo software for in-house mapping and development. Dowforce and drag data is 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, 2009 British GT champions Precis Spark Ascari chose the Wing Shop for the wing to run in 2010, the Matech Ford team ran one of our wings in 2009 to finish runners up in the FIA GT1 championship. And many other Wing Shop customers can boast of wins and records as well as just plain old performance improvements! |
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Shop wings and For its assault on the Britcar 24 hour at Silverstone in September 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 Engineering 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 wing tuning data was available and that the package was balanced to The Stig's liking (The Stig is the famous and formerly (!) anonymous racing driver on the Top Gear Team). 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 originally broadcast in an excellent edition of Top Gear on BBC Two in October 2007. |
Top Gear's front man Jeremy Clarkson actually said he thought the rear wing was 'awesome'. Here he is telling The Stig he can't believe how much downforce is available! (OK, so we made the last bit up...)
The Stig takes the BMW out for its first runs at Silverstone prior to the Britcar 24 Hours on September 8/9, 2007 |
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The DJ Firehawk, with DJ Engineering-manufactured Wing Shop-designed wings. DJ has been manufacturing a range of our design wings since 1999, and can provide set ups to suit single seaters (front and rear), sports racers, saloons and sports cars. DJ is now tooled up to supply high downforce set ups to suit hillclimb and SCCA Autocross applications, developed using CFD. |
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Now the DJ Firestorm, the company's first unlimited capacity class hillclimber, is using Wing Shop designed wings that, not surprisingly, DJ themselves manufactured. |
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Our
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? Also check out our 'whole car' aerodynamics advisory service, SMART. |
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