Motorsport and Performance Cars

Hexcel Composites is one of the world’s leading suppliers to the motorsport and performance car industries. Composite materials are established in many performance automotive sectors including Formula One, Indycars and high performance road cars.

WHEN PERFORMANCE IS EVERYTHING
Hexcel has been at the forefront of composite materials since their introduction. From the earliest aluminum honeycombs and film adhesives right though to today’s aerospace-proven, pre-impregnated carbon fiber composites (‘Prepregs’), Hexcel has been responsible for many of the technological developments in advanced composite materials and their applications.
Our expertise in leading edge technology combined with fast and flexible service has led us to form strong working relationships with many of the leading names in motorsport.

WHEN WINNING IS EVERYTHING
The composite carbon body shell, which forms the basis of most modern day racing cars, provides the safest yet most efficient framework through a combination of stiffness, lightness and strength.
Hexcel is the main supplier of structural composites to Reynard Motorsport, the world’s leading production racing car manufacturer, producing cars that are totally dependent on the use of modern composites. Using Hexcel’s structural composite materials, Reynard Motorsport have produced cars for Champ, Formula 3000, Barber Dodge, Formula Nippon and GT series. Hexcel materials have proved successful every time, with Reynard Motorsport winning every major series they have entered - most in their first season.

WHEN DESIGN IS EVERYTHING
Hexcel’s advanced composites technology supports the styling freedom necessary to produce the innovative designs found in racing cars and high performance road cars. The designer who uses Hexcel’s materials gains a competitive edge through a combination of stiffness, weight reduction, corrosion resistance, impact/damage resistance and occupant crash protection.

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