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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.

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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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SUCCESSES FOR WING SHOP WINGS!

Latest updates, September 22nd
Since the last update there have been more good results for British hillclimbers equipped with Wing Shop designed wings, with Wallace Menzies collecting another win in the DJ Firestorm at Prescott in early September, and three seconds, three thirds and two fourth places in the other events since Wiscombe Park on July 31st to enable him to challenge for third overall going into the final round of the British Hillclimb Championship at Loton Park on September 25th.

Lee Adams picked up another outright BHC Run Off win and a second place at his local hill, Doune, in September, this time in dry conditions to add to his 'wet wins' there earlier in the season.

Alex Summers finished second in his 1.4 supercharged DJ Firehawk to Wallace Menzies in the first run off at Prescott in September too, giving DJ its first ever BHC Run Off 1-2!

Dave Uren lies third overall in the British Hillclimb Leaders Championship going into the final round at Loton Park having effectively dominated the up to 1100cc racing car class this season in the Force HC that he shares with Nicola Menzies, Wallace's wife. The ex-Duncan Barnes and Mark Hemmingway car still runs the first wing ever made at the Wing Shop (in 2003) on the front! And the dual element rear wing was made by DJ.

And Graham Wynn, OBE, has piloted his 1.6 Force LM to numerous class wins and personal bests this year. The car runs a dual element Wing Shop designed rear wing manufactured by DJ Engineering, and will feature in Racecar Engineering's Aerobytes series during this autumn and early winter. For more information take a look at the SMART home page. Graham lies fifth in the Hillclimb Leaders Championship ahead of the final round.

Wiscombe Park, July 31st
Having stopped short of making the long trip from Aberdeenshire to the Channel Islands, Lee Adams nevertheless flogged down to Wiscombe Park in Devon, and made his first visit to the hill very worthwhile with another class win and two impressive fifth places in the BHC Run Offs in the Wing Shop winged 1.6 GWR Raptor. Meanwhile Wallace Menzies, battling with brake problems on the DJ Firestorm, improved his times markedly over the weekend to net two fourth BHC Run Off places and maintain his fourth position overall in the Championship, one place ahead of Lee Adams.

The Channel Islands, July 14th & 16th
The British Hillclimb Championship's annual trip across the English Channel brought more success for Wallace Menzies and the DJ Firestorm. Wallace took a fifth in the first Run Off at Bouley Bay, Jersey before going on to win the second Run Off outright. And he scored two second places at Val ses Terres, Guernsey two days later. His points haul over the two days moved him up to fourth place overall.

Doune, June 19th
More successes for Wing Shop designed wings occurred at the June 19th British Hillclimb Championship event at Doune in Scotland as Lee Adams collected another pair of outstanding wins in the 1.6 GWR Raptor in the tricky conditions that prevailed for rounds 13 and 14. And Wallace Menzies was well up there too in the DJ Firestorm with a third and a fourth place.

DJ Day, June 5th!
At Shelsley Walsh, Worcestershire on June 5th the successes continued! The weather played its part in qualifying for the first BHC Run Off but fastest qualifier was David Uren in his 1089cc Force HC with SM/DJ wings! And in the Run Off itself Dave grabbed the final point for 10th place. Lee Adams in the GWR Raptor bagged fifth place, and Wallace Menzies in the DJ Firestorm pipped Lee by a hundredth for fourth place. Star of the first Run Off though was Alex Summers in the 1.4 supercharged DJ Firehawk who qualified third with comfortably the fastest first run time in the up to 2000cc racing car class, and who then went on to beat everyone in the Run Off, including father and son Roger and current BHC series leader Scott Moran in consistent damp conditions purely on merit (and on slicks!). This was the first outright British Hillclimb Championship win for constructor DJ Racecars, long term manufacturing partner of Simon McBeath's Wing Shop brand.

Onto the second run off of the day and Summers and Menzies qualified third and fourth respectively on a tricky and slowly drying track. Summers picked up half a second on his qualifying time but others gained more and he slipped to sixth. Menzies then dipped into the mid-27s and had to wait for Trevor Willis (OMS) and Scott Moran (Gould) to run, but neither could beat the Scotman's time and so he netted the second ever win for DJ Racecars with the Firestorm!

Gurston Down, May 29th
Well done to Wallace Menzies in the 3.2 DJ Firestorm Cosworth XD for a brace of second places in rounds 7 & 8 of the British Hillclimb Championship at Gurston Down, Wiltshire on May 29th. The car, which was featured in Racecar Engineering in February's issue, then in the Aerobytes column in the next four issues of that tome, looked supremely stable through the fast sweeps at Gurston, and yet in spite of a horsepower deficit to the NME V8 and Judd V8 powered cars attained the fastest finish line speeds (a best of 153mph in the class runs), suggesting very good aerodynamic efficiency.

The car runs DJ-manufactured, Wing Shop designed wings, and Simon McBeath of The Wing Shop and SM AeRo Techniques contributed to the overall aerodynamic design of the car. The Firestorm was also aerodynamically refined in the MIRA full-scale wind tunnel over the winter of 2010-11.

Also on scintillating form at the same event was another Scotsman, Lee Adams, who had already scored his (and The Wing Shop's!) first BHC win at Harewood, Yorkshire earlier in the season aboard his 1.6 GWR Raptor. On his first visit to Gurston Down Lee decimated the up to 1600cc racing car class record and scored points in both British Hillclimb Championship Run Offs. The Raptor, designed and constructed by Graeme Wight Junior with design assistance from ex-Team Lotus F1 chief designer Martin Ogilvie, carries wings designed by Simon McBeath at The Wing Shop.

DJ teams up with the Tuners Group
Sydney, Australia-based company the Tuners Group have signed a deal with DJ Engineering Services Ltd to distribute DJ-manufactured, Wing Shop designed wings in Australasia. And already Tuners Group MD Adam Richardson is bringing in orders from high profile customers in circuit racing and Pro class Time Attack. See the Tuners Group announcement at www.tunersgroup.com/Products/wings.html

A major coup was obtaining an order from Australia's top Time Attack exponent Mark Berry, who now runs a dual element DJ SM203 wing on his Nissan R34 GT-R.

Mark finished as highest placed Australian driver and fifth overall in the World Tme Attack Challenge at Eastern Creek in August 2011. Read the full details here.

Mark Berry's Nissan R34 GT-R ran a DJ-manufactured wing in the 2011 World Time Attack event in August (photos courtesy of the Tuners Group).

2011 39th Tire Rack SCCA Autocross Nationals successes for Wing Shop designed wings

Congratulations are again due to Fred Zust from Tempe, Arizona, who won theX-Prepared class for the fourth successive year in his Lotus Elise at Lincoln, Nebraska on August 30th to September 2nd, 2011. Clemens Burger from Noblesville, Indiana took second in B-Modified in his LeGrand after winning the class in 2009/10. But this year Dan Wasdahl from Massillon, Ohio had to make do with fifth in A-Modified in his BBR Phantom DVS-1. Dan, who won A-Mod in 2008/09/10, reported that 'post-event video analysis showed I was driving too far from the cones in the slaloms, and this year there were a lot of slaloms...' Better luck in 2012, Dan!

The above drivers were all using Wing Shop designed, DJ Racecars manufactured multi-element wing sets front and rear (well Dan was anyway, the other two ran potent dual element rear wings!), 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 (see right), and the support of software supplier Ansys is gratefully acknowledged.

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Fred Zust won the X Prepared class for the fourth year in succession in his highly developed Lotus Elise (photo courtesy: Larry Burrow)

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)

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.