Maximize Performance by Combining Additive Manufacturing With Our Deep 3D Motorsports Consulting Experience
600–750
parts/week printed by one customer for wind tunnel testing
20+
years expertise in motorsports

Accelerate Speed to Track

3D Printing Helps Drive R&D at Renault Sport Formula One Team

Top racing performance requires robust, accurate parts. We collaborate to help you meet the innovation challenge, leveraging our decades of in-house additive manufacturing expertise and advanced material developments to help you build, test, and iterate more efficiently.

Using these capabilities and our industry knowledge, we’ll help you optimize new designs for high-performance  and get effective solutions to the track faster

3D Motorsports Applications Built for Improved Productivity and Performance

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Air and Fluid Handling

Air and Fluid Handling

Enable your engineers to optimize fluid dynamics and work within challenging space constraints. Easily test and produce parts with complex geometries, such as 3D-printed intake manifolds, that can withstand air pressure and flow, are nonreactive, and remain stable over time. 

Air and Fluid Handling Applications
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Metal Structural Components

Metal Structural Components

Create metal components that strike a careful balance between low weight and high strength to better manage the extreme forces encountered in a motorsports environment. Following our additive manufacturing expertise, you can quickly design and produce metal structural parts that reduce weight, increase efficiency, and achieve strict dimensional accuracy. Quickly create and test multiple part iterations to enhance productivity and maximize structural performance.

Metal Structural Components Applications
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Performance Wind Tunnel Testing

Performance Wind Tunnel Testing

Reduce the time it takes to build, test, and iterate parts for aerodynamic validation. Having our additive manufacturing equipment on-site allows you to quickly construct and test a variety of highly accurate metal and plastic parts that replicate finished motorsports components. This makes it possible to incorporate feedback immediately and maximize the time allotted for wind tunnel testing.

Performance Wind Tunnel Testing Applications
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Body Exterior and Panel

Body Exterior and Panel

Test and create optimized exteriors fast. Our innovative additive solutions allow you to quickly iterate exterior part designs to reduce drag, improve downforce and aerodynamic impact, and maximize performance.

Body Exterior and Panel Applications
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Manufacturing Aids

Manufacturing Aids

Manufacturing aids assist motorsports engineering and manufacturing teams with streamlining production and shortening assembly time. Being able to have available several replacement jigs and fixtures saves time, costs, and labor.

Manufacturing Aids Applications
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Energy and Fluid Management - (Metals)

Energy and Fluid Management - (Metals)

Performance vehicles have unique requirements for fluid and energy management. They need complex metal parts fitted into constrained spaces, with superior strength and corrosive resistance to handle high temperatures, harsh conditions, and various fluids. Additive manufacturing’s ability to produce complex, durable metal parts is ideal for providing solutions to maximize performance.

Energy and Fluid Management - (Metals) Applications
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Performance Cast Metal Components

Performance Cast Metal Components

The ability to quickly cast metal parts is essential at all levels of motorsports. 3D Systems has developed innovative casting solutions to allow complex parts to be accurately manufactured with quick turnarounds to get teams on the track as fast as possible.

Performance Cast Metal Components Applications
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Powertrain and Engine Area

Powertrain and Engine Area

The powertrain and engine area of motorsports vehicles are subjected to extreme temperatures, vibrations, and impacts. Manufacturing parts capable of fitting into a constrained packing environment that can withstand such harsh conditions was once a challenge for 3D printing. Through advanced material science and record accuracy, 3D Systems helps mitigate these challenges, maximizing automotive performance and optimizing the advanced propulsion and control technologies each race team has developed and refined.

Powertrain and Engine Area Applications

  • Application Innovation Group

    Our team can help you solve your most difficult design and production challenges with additive manufacturing solutions. Together we’ll identify your needs, working with you to optimize your designs, prototype, validate and define a manufacturing flow.

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Customer Stories
3D Systems and MTI Metal 3D Printing
Metal Technology (MTI) forges new path with metal 3D printing and English Racing
Produced unique on-engine 3D printed metal under-pulley gear within 1 day, and was on the race car engine for testing 3 days later to go on and win races...
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3D Systems 3D Printing Productivity Drives R&D at Renault Sport Formula One Team
3D Printing Productivity Drives R&D at Renault Sport Formula One Team
Partnership with 3D Systems speeds development and fuels innovation from wind tunnel testing to flow rigs to robust on-car parts...
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The Experience and Technology to Gain a Competitive Advantage

  • Improve Your Performance Faster

    You don't have weeks to wait for parts; you need fast solutions. Our additive manufacturing technology is built to help you design, test, and iterate motorsports components quickly and efficiently. By reducing the time it takes to produce high-quality parts from days or weeks to hours, you can quickly improve the performance of the race car and gain a critical advantage over your competitors. 

  • Easy Access to Innovation

    Our additive solutions make it easier to develop cutting-edge components that deliver superior performance. We give you access to a broad range of advanced materials and technologies, allowing you to design innovative parts that can withstand the sustained forces, vibrations, and extreme temperatures of motorsports. By leveraging the production flexibility of additive manufacturing, you can easily overcome the challenges of engineering motorsports applications and maximize performance.

  • Extensive Motorsports and Additive Expertise

    We are committed to giving you a competitive advantage using our solutions and expertise. We work with you to ensure that you are getting the most out of additive technology, whether you are trying to maximize aerodynamic performance, optimize strength/weight ratios, reduce component parts, or develop new parts within specific geometric constraints.

  • Winning the race between the NASCAR races at Stewart-Haas Racing

    The new SLA 3D printer integrates into the team’s digital workflow that includes 3D scanning and Geomagic Wrap reverse engineering software.

  • Winning the race between the NASCAR races at Stewart-Haas Racing
  • Carbon Fiber A new approach to composite fabrication

    Carbon Fiber - A New Approach to Composite Fabrication

    Benefit from 3D printing as part of your production workflow for complex carbon fiber components. Learn how you can achieve controlled surface finishes on both the interior and exterior of the part.

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  • SLS HST eBook

    The New World of Thermoplastic Manufacturing

    Learn how you can bypass the cost and time of traditional tooling, accelerating innovation and gaining a competitive advantage by 3D printing a robust, load-bearing, high heat resistance material. This is ideal for quickly producing the parts you need that can also withstand the difficult environment and demanding stresses of the vehicle.

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