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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.

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TO THE MIRA WIND TUNNEL WITH TWO TIME ATTACK CARS!
Mid March 2013 saw another visit to the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel to gather data for upcoming Aerobytes columns in Racecar Engineering magazine. This time we invited two very well known UK Time Attack contenders (whom we had met when supplying them wings) to have a close look at the aerodynamics of these cars in this refreshingly unrestricted category.

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.

MORE SUCCESSES FOR WING SHOP WINGS IN 2012!

The Wing Shop and DJ Engineering win the 2012 Goodwood Festival of Speed!
The 'Top 20 Shootout'-winning Chevron GR8 GT3 V6 driven by Anthony Reid at the 2012 FoS was equipped with a Wing Shop-designed, DJ-manufactured '183' single element high efficiency wing. Reid and the Chevron fended off challenges from an F1 Leyton House CG901B driven by Gary Ward, a Silk Cut Jaguar XJR-8/9 driven by Justin Law, Michael Bartels in a Maserati MC12 and Michael Krumm in a Nissan GT-R GT1.

UK Hillclimbing - wins and records
Wing Shop wings not only achieved many class wins on the hills in 2012, they also scored outright wins in British Hillclimb Championship 'Run Offs' again.

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

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?

Clemens Burger, 2nd in class in 2011, is seen here on his way to a second successive B Mod class win in the 2010 SCCA Solo 2 Nationals (Photo courtesy: Rupert Berrington Action Photography)

Dan Wasdahl had to settle for 5th in the A Mod class after winning it three years in succession in 2008/09/10. (Photo courtesy: Rupert Berrington Action Photography)

UK Time Attack success
Many congratulations to Jamie Willson on securing the Club Pro class championship win in his rapid Lotus Exige, equipped with dual element SM/DJ '183' wing.

Jamie Willson in his Time Attack Exige
(Photo courtesy: Rich Sams)

World Time Attack Challenge
A number of the Australian contenders in the WTAC that took place at Eastern Creek, Sydney in August used DJ-manufactured Wing Shop wings courtesy of Australian importer Tuners Group. Mark Berry was the top placed contender in the Pro class, finishing 7th in the Advan Hi Octane Nissan R34 GTR, and Alif Hamdan was a terrific runner up in the Open Class in the Chasers Motorworks Mitsubish Evo 6.

Mark Berry, Advan Hi Octane Nissan R34 GTR

UK Ten of the Best - overall winner
And many congratulations too to Andy Forrest on winning the 2012 TOTB event outright in his 1000bhp (!) Subaru Impreza. Andy won the drag race section, was second on top speed at 202mph over 1km, and finished 3rd in the handling shoot out (fastest Subaru on the day) to win overall on points.

Andy Forrest's potent Impreza
(Photo courtesy: Matt Woods)

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!

The five element rear wing used by Dan Wasdahl (see above) was developed in house using CFD

The Precis Spark Ascari GT3 at Silverstone in early 2010, running a DJ Engineering manufactured Wing Shop designed rear wing

Wing Shop wings and
SM AeRo Techniques selected by
BBC TV's 'Top Gear' programme!

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

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.

Double British Hillclimb champion Graeme Wight Junior chose Wing Shop wings for his fantastic 3.0 V10 powered Predator. Now GW Racing's Raptor hillclimb racecar features Wing Shop-designed profiles, and the car has achieved immediate success. GWR is an SM-Designs licensed wing manufacturer.

Now the DJ Firestorm, the company's first unlimited capacity class hillclimber, is using Wing Shop designed wings that, not surprisingly, DJ themselves manufactured.

ReVerie Ltd also makes wings designed by The Wing Shop. 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. Dual element variants are also available, and clamshell and tailgate mounted options are offered.

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?
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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.