Australia’s oldest motorsport team, Garry Rogers Motorsport designs, builds and maintains its own cars across four categories, and has long been an early adopter of advanced materials and manufacturing methods. Auto Action from GRM gallery
On Mount Panorama’s Conrod Straight, Supercars push beyond 300 km/h, loading splitters, underbody panels and aero components, while the Esses, heavy braking, kerb strikes and contact add their punishment. At Bathurst, composite design, manufacturing quality and repairability come together, and a failure can cost far more than a grid position.
At the World Time Attack Challenge (WTAC), drivers race alone against the clock chasing the fastest lap, and every component has to earn its place. Sydney Composites engineers and fabricates front and rear aero for these cars, from wings to undertrays and diffusers, generating downforce and grip while keeping weight in check.
Daniel Young, founder of DY Composites, builds precision composite aerodynamic panels for endurance racing, where tight deadlines meet harsh conditions and failure has immediate consequences. For Young, the reward comes from the link between engineering, manufacturing and competition, and from seeing parts leave the factory floor and perform as intended.
Forty years after Mike Borland built his first Formula Ford, his Braeside workshop is still designing, fabricating and assembling complete race cars in-house. Spectrum chassis now race in the UK, the US, Canada and New Zealand, making Borland Racing Developments a rare example of Australian motorsport manufacturing that competes on the world stage.
Lined up in rank formation in the King’s Fibreglass showroom is an army of “mini me” fibreglass figures, their true purpose cleverly disguised: race helmet and glove dryers, a necessary piece of equipment at a racetrack.
Link Composites’ product portfolio includes lightweight sandwich panels, infused panels, fibreglass parts, extrusions and laminates.
